Dear parents: You’ve made it! After a whopper of a week — nights that ended too late and mornings that started too early; shuttling the kids to and fro; seemingly endless cooking, cleaning and commuting — the sweet, languid weekend awaits!

I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to waking up on Saturday morning, unleashing a good, long lazy lion yawn, and greeting a day shimmering with possibili — What’s that, dear? Soccer game at 8? Weekly grocery run to follow? Well, at least we’ll still have the aftern — 1:00 birthday party at the laser tag? I thought that was next week? Oh, it is also next week. OK, but when I get back from all this running around, I’m going to need at least 20 minutes to decompre – Kids have haircuts at 4:00?

The tricky weekend. It gets me every time.

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