Since The Big Bang Theory came to an end, Mayim Bialik has returned to being a stay-at-home mom, and according to her latest YouTube video, it's "nothing" like she remembers.
Since The Big Bang Theory came to an end, Mayim Bialik has returned to being a stay-at-home mom, and according to her latest YouTube video, it's "nothing" like she remembers.
And while it was an emotional time for us, losing one of our beloved sitcoms — it was an even more emotional time for the cast.
She recently posted a YouTube video explaining what that's been like so far.
"They ask it in the supermarket, they ask it in the synagogue, they ask it at the gym, when I drop my kids off at classes — I get it. Everybody wants to know what I'm doing now."
"Well, I like to joke that I crawled back under the rock that I was under when I auditioned for The Big Bang Theory; the rock of being a mom."
"My blessed 18-month-old nursed every two to three hours, all night. By about 6 am, the three-year-old would be up and demanding love and attention and breakfast — which I got right to after nursing for the thousandth time in 12 hours."
"The 18-month-old needed a nap. But he wouldn't nap unless he was in the sling," she went on. "So, I would basically pace and rock and nurse while I also tried to keep the three-year-old happy."
"They go to the potty all on their own, they make snacks for themselves — although, I still like to make snacks for them, and for me."
"The house is so different — it's so quiet."
"Sure, my boys sometimes squabble and they have their moments. But generally speaking, it's very quiet."
"I still have no nanny or housekeeper, so I still spend a lot of my time doing laundry and cleaning the house and cooking."
"I can go to meetings close to the house and leave them, and then come back," she said.
Mayim then explains her shock over the fact that her children don't "need" her quite the same as they used to.
"I'm used to being the most important person in their lives."
"When I walk by my boys now, I kinda like, tousel their hair or like, touch a shoulder, in hopes that this won't be the day that they shrug off my touch completely."
"I'm lucky if they let me watch them comb the hair that I watched grow strand by strand."
"It's the brain processing what happened in the day. It's everything settling down... They have dreams of love and flying and monsters and danger, just like I do."
"And I would be lying if I didn't admit that I cherish their nightmares because it's in those moments when they call out for me and I stumble out of my bed and I go to their room and I say 'I'm coming baby, I'm right here, mamma's here it's gonna be okay,' I cherish that, still."
"I miss the tenderness of being a mom to an 18-month-old and a three-year-old, I do."
"I worry that I've missed the most tender time of their lives — I've missed that transition from being everything to whatever it is that I find that I am now."
"I get to find ways to let them grow and thrive and spread their wings and they know that I'm always here. I'm always gonna be here."
Watch the full video below!