Today Is Friday

It’s Friday today. Weekends have lost the significance that they held in my teenage years. Friday used to mean end of the school or work week, with two full days ahead of glorious freedom! It was time to hang out with friends, stay up late, sleep in. Time to go shopping, find some adventure, or just sit on the couch and do nothing.

Now Fridays mark the end of a busy week taking care of the kids, days filled with lunch dates and naptimes, errands and get-stuff-done-around-the-house days. Saturday and Sunday look the same as the other days of my week. My husband is home on the weekend (usually), so that calls for some sleeping in together (kind of) and working at home together (kind of). But my main job is still there: taking care of the kids. I don’t get weekends off at this job.

As I write this, I don’t remember the last time I went to hangout with some friends for an evening on the weekend, with nothing more to worry about than what outfit I should wear. But why shouldn’t I still have that mindset? What if I changed out of my comfy clothes and put on a cute outfit, even if it was just to hang out with my kids in our living room? Why not put aside all the “should dos” and work lists for a Friday evening to hang out with my littles? Or actually go out with them and do something fun together?

I want to get back that weekend feeling, the one of letting go of life just a little and enjoying the moment that I’m in. Yes, my work comes with me in the form of five little ducklings, whether they are in a row or not. But me and my ducklings, we are going to enjoy each other this weekend.

Happy weekend!