Not that I don’t love my kids, but when the ex-husband finally does come through for his weekend with them, I do tend to breathe a sigh of relief. Sometimes it is nice to just not have to worry about entertaining anyone else and just to focus and worry about myself. Single moms do not get that chance very often, so we have to embrace them when we can.
I planned for this particular weekend to be a combination of productivity and complete laziness. Productivity was always part of the game, and I could not avoid that. There was always something to do, from the house to the yard to the kids to the job. But I had also scheduled some downtime to just lay around in my yoga pants and eat ice cream.
By the time I got home from work on Friday evening, the kids were already with their father, so I
