Hey, there, weekend. Glad to have you here again. [Side note: you know the song "Everybody's Working for the Weekend?" For the longest time I thought it meant that, unfortunately, everyone was scheduled to work for the weekend. I couldn't figure out what was so song-worthy about that. Ha!] 

While our weekend looks pretty busy, what I'm really looking forward to right now is a long-awaited getaway with G in a few weeks.​ It's been ages since we got away, just the two of us. I think we're calling this our 20th anniversary trip, though we celebrated our 23rd this year. Now that we've got older kids, we're leaving them in the care of each other, with supervision and chauffeuring duties falling to Lauren, 19. Still, I don't think they're too old to appreciate and use something like this to help guide their week:

​And I'm definitely not above leaving behind a little "motivational" gimmick like this, ha!  
​A few other gems for you as we head into the weekend:​

• I think you'll love this post by Lee Woodruff in praise of the uncool mom. Uncool moms (and formerly kinda cool ones) unite! I posted this on our Facebook page* this week but I think it deserves another mention here.

• This hilarious post about the inevitable parental fizzling at the end of the school year swiftly made the rounds on Facebook yesterday. What does it say about me that I resemble this right now and we're only halfway through the school year here in Oz?

• You know how you look at some families and think, how do they do it? Not in an abstract way but, really, how do they logistically manage their lives? Here's how NPR's Kai Ryssdal and his family does it. ​ And how Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman and her family does it. (Wow, there were so many biting comments criticizing each other's parenting decisions that the Times had to put their foot down and make a stricter commenting policy. Sigh. We parents can be so tough on each other.)

• The gift of siblings. I'm curious: have you grown closer or further apart from your siblings as you've grown older?

• ​Prancercise, anyone?

• I hope the world is ready for more design-y resumes because I love the design and layout of this one by Danish designer Pernille Posselt. Maybe I'll talk Lauren into trying a similar layout for her "summer break" (ahem, winter, here) job hunt. What do you think of it?

Okay, over and out. Happy weekend, all! ​

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