So finally getting around to posting about the weekend. I swear we sail through the school week fine but as soon as the weekend comes drama starts. Some of it is that SD8 is all about how much fun stuff we are going to do with her... She really loves spending time with us and that's nice cause I'm sure in a few years she won't. But she hasn't learned when to quit it cause dad & stepsoftly are tired and need to wind down. Is that a parenting thing rather than a stepparenting thing? Probably but I wouldn't know.

So it's always a day of adjustment. FDH & I both work at home so once SD8 is off to school we buckle down and work like crazy to get a head start on the week. But this is the every-other-Monday that she will go to her mom's after school instead of coming back here. So there's this feeling of something missing, but the possibility of more flexible plans at the same time. We like our weeks without SD, but we do miss her -- FDH more so than me, which I imagine is pretty normal and expected.