Thoughts: Movies Post Children Era

I'm a real sucker for freebies or contests. When I was child free, I used to love to look up The Star online for freebies especially movie tickets. My hubby and I was so up-to-date with movies. That was one of our main activity during our dating years which we really enjoyed. So much so that we would usually catch new movies as soon as we can, upon the movie release. Like on that day itself or within that week itself. Now that I have two kids, gone are the days where I have the time to watch movies. I'm not even gonna talk about sitcoms and drama series. All I get is 3-5 minutes long little clips on Facebook. I have not visited the cinema in more than 2 years. Do I miss it? Heck yeah but parenthood requires a little sacrifice, this was one of it I was willing to let go as I could still download movies and watch from the laptop. Perhaps once my kids are all grown up and can understand the concept of going to the cinemas, I know I will be visiting it together with them. It's not all that bad, I have to tell myself that. For a full time working mom, quality time with my kids are much more important. As of now, how do I catch my movies? I browse through '2013 in film' on Wikipedia on movies that I want to watch, search for the torrent and open up my P2P and start downloading. Then we watch movies on the laptop on the bed once the kids are asleep, tucked in between them. THAT is if I can find the time to sit down and watch and MORE importantly, to keep my eyes open past 10pm or 1030pm. Taking care of my baby means having to get up at odd hours makes it really tiring. I can feel weight on my eyes when the clock has hit a certain hours which means its time for my body to get the rest it needs for the following day. However, as Cadence starts to grow and it gets a little easier during the night time, I know pretty soon I'll get that tiny little freedom for movies at home with the hubs after the kids' bedtime, tucked in between the two babies with our earphones plugged and laptop on the lap with frequent interruptions from the kids. And eventually, go back to be one of the suckers for free movie tickets redemption. So to those that still does not have kids, PLEASE, go watch ALL the movies you can.

The kinda things I really miss doing, looking at movie tickets redemption on The Star newspaper and going for it. :)