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Day 137: Weekends

Oh I am so grateful for weekends.  I need them since I work outside of the home in addition to being a wife and Mom.  I became even more grateful for weekends when I started working full time back in the spring and my time was cut even shorter. As the days and weeks go on here's what I am most grateful for about the weekends: time with my spiritual community, time for just me, a chance to catch up on the house and all the details it takes to run a home and work outside of the home, space to breathe, a respite from co-workers (yes there are some names of those I need a weekend break from, no I am not going to name them. *grin*), a chance to just regroup.  I got up this morning a little gleeful that it was Friday and the weekend is upon us, I felt so grateful for the weekend.

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