Typical Weekend or Not?

Sunday, August 17, 2008 by Dana.

Did you grow up doing the same thing every weekend?  Maybe it was baseball on Saturdays and church on Sunday morning, followed by brunch at a local restaurant.  Maybe it involved watching a football game or having the same thing for Sunday dinner. 

Growing up for me… weekends were those days to do all that work around our mini-farm that we could not do during the week because of grueling factory jobs my parents held down or the extremely full sport and activity schedules I had.

Now I find that my weekends are seldom the same.  We almost never have the same thing to eat every weekend, and activities can range from doing yard work to not being home all day.  This Friday evening, I went with Karen (wife) to Tucson to help her with a her work (http://sekseparties.com), which is usually a lot of fun for me.  This particular event was a lot fun, and we actually didn’t make it home until 4am.   On Saturday, we did a little shopping at the Chandler Fashion Center and recovered from our partying Friday night.  This morning (Sunday), Karen and I went on a 3 hour mountain hike in South Mountain Park, with the dogs.  After that, we gave all 3 dogs a bath outdoors, swam a little, and then drove out to East Mesa to pick up a dance pole she had rented the day before.  It wore us all out.  I took a 2 hour nap before dinner, and the dogs have been lounging around or sleeping most of the day.  Karen fell asleep at 9:00pm watching a movie with our youngest boy.

What about our kids you ask?  They are at the age where hanging out with their friends is much more fun than hanging out with the parents.  Only our 8 year old gets dragged along with us when he isn’t hanging out with the neighbor boy or when our older 2 boys are not around to keep an eye on him.

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