We all need a little 'me' time.

So often I hear and even use the cliche that time disappears too fast as a parent. It often feels like that but when I stop and think about it, becoming a parent actually seems to have stretched time. I think back and less than 2 years ago I had no children. Now I have 2. Less than 2 years ago really isn't that long ago and yet I struggle to even remember it. It's like it was a different life altogether; a hazy mirage that seems nice but not quite real. Apparently I used to be able to do what I wanted, when I wanted. I used to have lie ins, party late and even leave the house after dark with my wife. Life as a parent is great, but boy is it all consuming and exhausting. We no longer have the luxury to even read the newspaper over breakfast in peace, let alone anything else. Remembering life without children is difficult, and if we're not careful I think we are in danger of remember we exist as individuals too. That's why we've both decided to try and make a little more time for ourselves in 2015.

Looking back on the last year though, as we've adapted to parenting 2 small children I'd be lying if I said that I didn't have more time to myself than my wife got. My idea of me time is spent training in the gym and partaking in physical activity; watching sport, attending sports, reading about sports, listening to sports, debating sports. I moan that I don't get enough time to myself but in truth, I'm a sports junkie and my wife spends a lot of time playing the role of a sports widow. I was feeling a little guilty as we looked back on the last 12 months. I'd been to football games, American football games, basketball, ice hockey, greyhound racing, boxing events all live and spent more hours than I could count both in the gym or with my eyes glued to the television cheering on my favourite athletes. I didn't class that as having me time, but in hindsight I'd had a lot. I'd given a lot of my time to the sporting world and thankfully the good folk at Betfair helped me give a little of it back to my wife. They sent me a hamper from the wonderful Pamper Parcels that would help my wife enjoy some quality time for herself whilst I was searching for the next bit of sport I could watch like a helpless addict.

The Pamper Parcel definitely put a huge smile on my wife's face and I would recommend it to any man out there in need of earning some brownie points. It came well packaged, beautifully presented and filled with goodies such as bath bombs, body lotion and chocolate. I'm lucky that my wife understands that sports make me happy. I'm even luckier than Betfair knew somone at Pamper Parcels and that they knew that special deliveries of pampering products would make my wife happy.

Disclosure - Betfair sent me the Pamper Parcel in exchange for this blog post. Any views and opinions however, are my own and are honest.