Quiet Weekends are Rare

I’ve been tinkering on my computer for a good part of the weekend, continuing work on a program I wrote for working with my blog. It was nice to sit down and get the work done. The price paid is that other things didn’t get done. I suppose, this post marks the beginning of dealing with those things.

But to get to this point, I had to have the time to sit here for an hour or 2 at a time and concentrate. That means children have to be occupied in non-destructive, non-Wife-annoying activities for long periods of time. It helps when the kids are a little on the 5+ side- luckily for me, both of mine qualify.

Even so, there’s been nowhere we’ve had to go or be this weekend. Well, except for bringing the boy to his sleepover, but that doesn’t count because it was a dropoff and afterwards he was someone else’s to deal with. That left the lass and she was content to play quietly and then watch a Scooby-Doo marathon before going to bed.

But it’s been a loooong time since we’ve been able to claim a weekend like this. Between school, hockey, daytrips, errands and whatever else comes along, these sorts of weekends are just exceedingly rare. I expect that after this one, that pattern will resume. Such is the life of a parent, I suppose.

But it was nice to have the chance to exhale for a couple days.