Used to be that Braydon and I would end our week by working late (shutting off our computers around 6:00 or 7:00), showering, and heading out for a late dinner out. We'd have a couple drinks, de-brief about our week, and unwind. Although it has been a whole two years since life "Post K & O," I still can't quite believe just how much our life has changed. A typical Friday night for us now is one like tonight. It includes things like this:
- An early as possible pick up from daycare -- Today's pick-up time: 4:30
- A frazzled end-of-the-week family of four with only the tiniest bit of patience left for anything trying to pick up just a few things to get us through the weekend at the grocery store
- Twin boys with bright yellow grocery store "PAID" stickers on their foreheads being so silly in the grocery cart that even perfect strangers are laughing out loud in the isles
- Soup (de-frosted from the freezer), salad crusty bread & good cheese (from the grocery store)
- Red wine for H & B, Juicy Juice for K & O
- Lots of playing on the floor (all 4 of us), lots of fussing (all 4 of us), mixed with a couple meltdowns and/or tantrums (all 4 of us)
- A Dora the Explorer or Go Diego Go video -- Tonight's selection, K & O's new favorite: Go Diego Go - Booboos on the Pygmy Marmosets
- Bedtime books -- Tonight's selections, 3 of K & O's old favorites: A Mother for Choco, How Does a Dinosaur Say Goodnight?, and Hush Little Baby
- Mega-tantrum from Owen at bedtime... he's just gotta get that one last protest in before he closes out his week
As much as I do sometimes crave one of those "Pre K & O" Friday nights, at the end of the day (and even at the end of the week), I still wouldn't change a thing about our current situation. Not a thing.
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