Workin' for the Weekend

FYI-

Kellan once upon a time loved and did a pretty good impersonation of Chris Farley.

Kellan's best friend Kenny gave me a DVD of Saturday Night Live's Best of Chris Farley for my 21st birthday.

Hence today's title.

I'm going to eat some cheese now.

The last few years Kellan has worked evenings/nights and weekends, so the weekend didn't mean much to us.

We looked forward to Sunday and that's about it.

Also, with no children in school, we didn't have to go anywhere or do anything unless we felt like it.

So basically the kids and I did our thing here while Kellan did school all day. Kellan would stop by around dinner time to grab something to eat and change and be off to work. I'd feed and put the kids to bed alone, then chill out by myself until Kellan came home around 1:00 am.

That's how it was everyday weekday or weekend minus Sunday.

Will you all think I'm crazy if I kind of miss it a little bit? Not the part where Kellan's gone all day and night. Not the part where I do dinner and bedtime by myself. Not the part where I have to drag my exhausted bottom to an empty bed every night.

I miss the part where I didn't have to be anywhere at any particular time of day.

With no bus, I have to drop off Anne at 11:50am and pick her up at 2:30pm every day. So far its been fine and eveything has worked out, but suddenly it feels like every 10 min of our life is scheduled.

After having no schedule for so long (execpt for bedtime) I feel like I have to check the clock every 5 minutes and make sure I'm utilizing every minute or dinner won't happen, or the house won't get clean, or Sara won't get her share of me time, or I'll be late to pick up Anne and she'll cry and not talk to me the rest of the day (she's since forgiven me). While I've managed to get it all done this week has been exhausting.

However, I realized today that its Friday and tomorrow is Saturday. For once in our life that means something. Its been such a relief to look forward to this evening and tomorrow.

So today I'm grateful for the weekend. Its nice to look forward to it again.

Somebody call the Waaaaambulence!

Today was Anne's first day of Kindergarten! AHHHH! I've been freaking out for the last 6 months. I've been on the brink of tears for the last week. I've hogged this girl to myself for almost 6 years now and I am not ready to share her with the world!

In spite of all that, it was so fun to see her so excited! And I haven't cried once today, maybe next week I'll have that melt down, but today was just bittersweet. So fun and so sad for me at the same time.

Sara was pretty sad when we dropped her off. She had to run back for a final hug and kiss. Once we got home and put Libby and Truman down for a nap, she loved having alone time with Mom. I think it will be really good for both of us. She seems to need the most attention, and yet she seems like the hardest one to make time for sometimes. Today we played the Fancy Nancy game for a while and then she helped me clean up the kitchen.

Dad waited to go to work so he could walk down with us to drop her off. It was good to have him there, I needed the emotional support today.

Once we got there she took off and didn't look back. When I picked her up, she said "Oh Mom! I had a lovely time!"

Diggin' and Singin'

I don't know what's funnier- my brother Keith's doofy laugh, Kellan's giant finger, or Sara.

Oh Sara. Sara, Sara, Sara...