Here is what a relaxing weekend looks like at my house.

• Prepared and/or served five meals for children.
• Biked 40 miles.
• Went to church.
• Visited with relatives.
• Took children to small parking lot carnival.
• Made cool craft project with kids.
• Taught myself new and secret craft skill.
• Read to kids.
• Read to children some more.
• Fold and put away a heap of laundry large enough to cover two beds.
• Make home-made bread, without a bread machine or even a fancy pants mixer.
• Worked on teaching bike riding skills – aka fling your son at the pavement until he begs for mercy.
• Mow grass.
• Fertilize
• Turn on sprinklers, accidentally spraying neighbors freshly washed truck … again.
• Replace light bulbs
• Made real progress reading latest book.
• VPN’ed towork and wrote an email or two.

When I list it all out like that it seems like a list made by a person with serious mental issues. The odd thing was that most of it seemed pretty fun to me. Before children, I used to be quite content to do nothing on the weekends. Now doing nothing is more work.

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