Photo-A-Day #3829

Fridays are my toughest day of the week. While I enjoy my time with Andrew and being able to be home all week, Fridays are the toughest. Fridays are tough because it is the day I go back to work. It also means that I’m looking ahead at a long day and a long night. A twenty-four hour period of being awake. It is also the end of the week and I am spent with trying to figure out things to do with Andrew to keep him interested, fed and entertained. Fridays are tough. It doesn’t help that I’m not that thrilled about having to go back to work for another weekend. It seems like just when I get back to normal after the previous weekend it is time to throw things all out of whack again. I can be short tempered on Fridays.

This Friday I was trying to get a few errands done and one of them was to run to the UPS store to send back the Cable modem to Comcast. The plaza that has the UPS store also has a place called Kidz Wurld. It is an indoor play place that has some inflatables, play sets and more things. Kids can run around and play with tons of things. Andrew had a great time running and jumping and he made a little friend. Then the two of them would run from activity to activity and play together. I figured that if I could tire him out in the morning that he’d sleep in the afternoon. That never happens unless we stay out and eat something for lunch and I drive him around long enough for him to pass out. Instead I did the responsible thing and picked up some cold cuts for lunch and brought him home to eat. He did not nap.

It seems the harder I try to tire him out the more awake the kid gets.