The long weekend at home.

Three days hanging around home, you just can't beat it.

Seriously, if I could get a three day weekend all the time, and I am sure you will all agree, the house would be cleaner more organised, the yard better cared for, fitness levels ramped up. Even our dinners would taste better, have more variety.

My internal relaxation tanks would be at a tolerable level helping me purr along getting way better mileage.

Sounds like retirement. hhhmmmm...

Funny though, as the kids get older and I am pushing them to be more independent (the older two seem to have lacked this for sometime) I am finding more and more that our time spent together is dwindling fast. It is hard to accept at times but we have to give them the space to grow and become their own person, find their own groove in this world. All of this under a very watchful eye of course, just from a little farther back than we are used too.

I am liking this space as well and it feels good when we can come together, although at times much to briefly, I am managing more me time with a good mixture of family time.

I feel I have reached the point of having all I ever hoped for, everything I need. What more could a girl want? This must mean its time to learn a little more and grow. Expand my wings a little bit further, but that is a whole other blog.

Also it seems that the youngest of the three, the one who still has to be home and around me more often has shown the most signs of independence and responsibility on his own as well he seems to be experiencing only child syndrome. He is spending more time alone now with his older siblings off doing their own things. He takes pretty good care of himself, helps me out more around the house and we get to enjoy more activities together then I ever could when he was a baby and the older two were younger and less independent.

The third child is now the one getting the long bike rides, quiet strolls and more one on one park time as well is picking up more lunch making and dinner skills.

I would sure like to bottle this weekend and open it up after every work week. It had such good balance.

Dinner and drinks with friends, home time, family time, relax time, me time, exercise time, husband time.

Freeze Frame.....