After having kids some women wonder when will the old me come back? She won't. But this is probably what will happen. My son is 8 and a half. I don't forget the half part because just in the last six months he is gaining independence. Last week I told him to get ready I needed to run to the store. He was playing Minecraft with his friends. He looked at me and said "Mommy just go, I will be fine." I have never left him anywhere not even at day care. So I can give him my cell phone and put it on speaker phone and used dad's cell phone on speaker phone, like walkie talkies. Sure enough when I came back from the store at the end of the street with my two liter of soda he was still alive and the house didn't burn down. Now I won't try this all the time. But we had to take a test flight. Just over the same last 6 months or so I have gotten to the point where I feel like putting on my makeup and getting dressed up and going out to have that special mommy and daddy time. Age is creeping in. That's the point when you'll feel like putting your makeup on again. That's about as close to the old you as it will get.