DH and I were talking about how we currently miss the spontaneity of being able to do whatever/whenever we wanted on any given day. We live near a ton of bars and restaurants... we'd be having date night out every day in our pre-kids life! 
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Sleeping in and spontaneity!
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Sleep, mostly. Free time to just do whatever the heck I want. Staying up until 11 because I could sleep until 7 uninterrupted.
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Lie ins, mainly. God I miss sleep. Also going out drinking with DH.
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Sleep. Always, always sleep.
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Freely meeting up with friends.
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Right now, being more care/worry free. A friend just found out her infant nephew has an untreatable disease and will not live much longer. As a mother, hearing some thing like that is just earth shattering. I want to hold my older LO in my arms all day and I want the one I'm pregnant with to just stay inside where he's safe.
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Lately I've been missing living abroad in London, pre-kids. It was pretty glamorous now that I think about it! I didn't appreciate it enough then.
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Being spontaneous
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Not having to plan around naps.
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sleeping in
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Being able to go do things without coordinating with DH for who is going to be home in time for the nanny to leave or trying to find a babysitter. I used to be able to run a quick errand on my way home from work if I needed something for dinner or go to last minute happy hours without having to really plan it. I miss that.
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Being able to do whatever I want, whenever I want.
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Honestly, nothing! I know it makes me sound like a crazy person, but my son wasn't born until I was 35, so I had a LOT of time to do whatever I wanted, when I wanted, etc.
I guess it's also because there was a time in my life where it looked like kids were not going to be part of the equation for me as well.
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Sleeping in
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Spontaneity, sleep, my figure.
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Just hanging out, watching TV and snacking. Going to run errands alone.
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Having better sleep overall. LO's wake ups messed up my sleep, and I have never been the same since. I also miss just lying around doing nothing if I wanted to.
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Sleep! DS is pretty flexible so we can go out and do/see stuff, but he's not a sleeper so yea...
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Getting my hair done whenever I wanted to! I'm itching for a cut/color and have no idea when I'll be able to schedule an appointment
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@rachiecakes: I was watching the clock like a hawk, but I somehow managed two appts in the last week! (Second time because I wanted lighter than what he did last week!)
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Being able to go on last minute dates, go away for long weekends together, having expendable $$ to take nice trips just Dh and I...
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I miss painting in my studio. I know I will be back to it eventually...
I also miss spending one on one time with DH, sleeping in, having energy, doing whatever whenever.
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Sleeping in, having alone time, being able to spend a weekend day just reading or watching TV.
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Spending an entire weekend on the couch watching a marathon of TV shows. My husband and I watched the entire series of LOST in less than a month doing this. It was awesome. Not anymore.
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Travel! We are finally financially in a place where we could have a bit more fun with our travel...plus with my work international travel we'd be able to take more advantage of that!
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Money. God I wish we had been smarter about it when we weren't spending 14k a year on daycare. (and soon twice that!) And being able to work on home projects. No time for long projects anymore.
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Sleep, not having to lug a million things around, and free time
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Sleep. Not sleeping in.... just sleeping like 7 hours through the night.
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I miss the money, for sure. I wish we'd taken the $11k we now spend a year on daycare and put it in savings or something. I miss my husband the most though. He's having a hard time with the time/money crunch and it's putting a strain on our marriage.
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Sleep, being able to eat out (at non-kid friendly restaurants) on a whim. And generally not having to plan everything around eating/sleeping/pumping schedules.
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@mediagirl: I was going to say the same thing! When I was pregnant with my first and feeling awful, we marathoned The West Wing while I layed on the couch in sweatpants. Like whole days where we didn't leave the house. It was kind of great.
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TV. I have so much DVR'd and keep deleting stuff!
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Going to the movies regularly!
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My body Hahahah.
But otherwise, I can't really think of anything! I could have named a million things during the first year or two, but things are good now and I love being a mom. His sleep/my sleep is good too.
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Being able to sit at the bar at a restaurant instead of waiting a while to be seated.
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spontaneity.
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Leaving the house after 6PM. We're ALWAYS home by 6PM to start LO's dinner, bath, and bedtime.
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the ease of making new friends. I feel like as a parent I have become much more picky. not necessarily a bad thing but before kids it was just easier.
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For some reason running errands with a kid is the worst. Getting her in and out of the car seat and her stroller takes forever.
Also fine dining. I miss that since girlfriend won't take bottles no bed time babysitting.
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