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"It&amp;#039;s Daddy&amp;#039;s weekend with the kids - yay!  After two weekends in a row (because Peter needed to swap), a half-dozen snowstorms snowing us in, countless missed school days, one work and school holiday, one set of report cards and parent-teacher conferences, and a missed mid-week visit with Dad this week due to his work schedule, I really, really, really need a break. I mean really. My house looks like it should be nuked from orbit for safety&amp;#039;s sake. There&amp;#039;s still a foothill of snow outside, which is an improvement from the mountain it used to be, and tonight after I shut the door behind them, I&amp;#039;m going to pour a big drink and just plain relax. I&amp;#039;m going to sit there and revel in the quiet, and then I&amp;#039;m going to watch what I want to watch on TV. Or maybe not watch anything at all. Maybe I&amp;#039;ll read. Quietly. Or listen to music. Quietly. Do you sense a theme here? Yeah, this weekend is gonna be all about me. Me, me, me, me, me. I still have a house to clean and laundry to do and bills to pay and closets to organize, but around that, I can do whatever I want, whenever I want, any way I want to do it. A definite perk of being a divorced parent, and I&amp;#039;m grasping it with both hands this weekend, believe me. And I feel surprisingly not guilty about a bit of it.  How do you spend your kid-free weekends? Have you ever felt like you needed one just to recover from your life? [Follow Ellie on Facebook and Twitter] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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