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"I had a bad weekend. My kids would never know it, of course. To them the weekend was great. Anna had a birthday party to go to, then a friend slept over. David got taken to the movies, and we all went out for pizza last night. For them, the weekend was worlds of fun. Not so much for me, though. Have you ever had a weekend where you just didn&amp;#039;t get stuff done? And I can&amp;#039;t even blame it all on having the kids around. I was a lump in between everything we did. I didn&amp;#039;t get the yard work or house cleaning done I wanted to do. I didn&amp;#039;t work out. I ate really, really badly. I mean badly. I barely got any writing done - although in my defense, it&amp;#039;s hard to write when your son is sitting next to you singing at the top of his lungs and your daughter and her friend are playing an online game and asking you for trivia answers every ninety seconds. I swore to myself I&amp;#039;d get up early this morning, go for a powerwalk and get some writing done before I had to get the kids up. The alarm went of at five a.m. and I (of course) decided that sleep meant more to me. Now I really hate myself. I&amp;#039;m tired of feeling guilty when I take some downtime, but it seems like I take so much downtime just to recuperate from the rest of my life, which is no way to do things. I wish there were more hours in the day, but the way I was behaving this weekend, I&amp;#039;d just squander them all. I&amp;#039;m wondering if I shouldn&amp;#039;t start printing up a calendar and taping it to the fridge. I think if the kids saw it there, they wouldn&amp;#039;t let me off the hook till I did the stuff I have to do. It&amp;#039;s worth a try! How do you manage your weekends? Do you keep to a schedule or just try to work things in around the rest of your life?  [Follow Ellie on Twitter and Facebook] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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