Saturdays

Friday nights we go to bed with so many expectations of what needs to be done. We have become the quintessential soccer family this year. Our oldest daughter Olivia plays top level soccer and has three practices plus two games every weekend. This weekend she doesn't have any games, it is a break week in the schedule. Mark our ten year old plays one game on Mondays and practice on Wednesday nights. Nathan who is eight, plays on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Little Paige the four year old, plays on Monday night with her Dad as her coach. Jason plays softball on Friday nights and sometimes after his double header, he umps for another double header. (It helps to pay for indoor soccer in the winter) All of this soccer takes place in the evening hours somewhere in the middle of suppertime and bedtime. Right after a long work day. All this being said we land on Saturdays completely exhausted from the week. We are supposed to be revitalizing ourselves, but instead we are changing beds linens, weed whacking, vacuuming and all of the other things all people around the world are doing on Saturdays. One week I would love to have all of the work done so that on one of the two Saturdays we have free this summer we can just get up and say "let's go somewhere for the day!" Those were the good ol' days when Daddy didn't have his own business, and mommy didn't babysit kids. I have got to say though, life is pretty good. We are together and we are going to go out for a family bike ride in between our Saturday chores. I just hope I can make it up those hills...