Fridays with kids
One of the hardest things for me about working, and, having young kids are Friday afternoons.
Around 5pm on Friday, my mind looks forward to going home, resting, and, planning what to do for the weekend. However, reality delivers something much different.
Despite the fact that it sounds like a sixties sitcom, there are some Fridays where I am dragging myself in the door, wanting nothing more than to change my clothes, get a nice drink, and, sit quietly.
Like most kids, mine have other plans that don’t include resting in any of it’s forms:
“Look! Come here! Let me show you… Can we do… can we go… can we buy… did you get…can I use…”
I love my children, and, I am overjoyed to see them at the end of the day, but, there are times when I would like to see them, well, just a little more quietly.
There’ll be someday, and, it may be soon, that they won’t greet me this enthusiastically, I know that, and, I will long for these days.
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POSTED IN: Time off, Transition between work and home
4 opinions for Fridays with kids
malia
Apr 23, 2007 at 7:32 am
I remember when I was kid, my mom getting home from work and I would start bugging her about going here and going there or “what can we do?” type questions. And she would always say something like, “Let’s just sit and do nothing.”
I think I felt like a real parent the first time I heard myself saying that to my daughter!!
JayMonster
Apr 23, 2007 at 7:47 am
Most Fridays I feel the same way. I have for the most part tried to “cheat” and find a sort of level of balance.
I try to plot out my Friday… usually on Thursday. Maybe order Chinese food for dinner, or pizza, or something that can be prepared with not much more thought than “pop in microwave.”
Now the benefit (for me) is having one, so I work on getting a movie or something else that can entertain her, and it becomes our “Friday night party.” She feels like I am spending “extra super quality time” with her, and I get to relax as she watches a movie, and munches on something that was not “work” to prepare.
“Preparing” for this time means her either helping with some chores, or just “staying out of the way” so I can get a couple of things done so that I may “join her” for movie time. That (so far) helps keep her at bay briefly allowing me some time to unclutter my head when I first walk in the door.
Jamie
Apr 23, 2007 at 10:21 am
I am currently off on Fridays (I work 32 hours a week.) I have to say that that has helped immensely! Because we pay for full-time daycare I often take the girls to “school” for a half day on Fridays just so I can get some housework and errands done.
When I had my second daughter I worked from home for almost her first year and I would bombard my husband with 9 million questions and requests the second he walked in the door.
Eeek. ;)
Jamie
Apr 23, 2007 at 10:21 am
Oh and I don’t blog at all on Fridays when I am supposed to be productive at home on my days off. ;)
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