Longest week ever. Just thought it would be good to jot down a quick Friday Love since I haven’t done so in quite some time.

Here is what there is to Love on this lovely Friday:

• Daddy comes home. Tonight. Top of the list because it is the one thing that is getting us through this week. We have had meltdown after meltdown, puking sessions, a night of bloody noses and not enough sleep all week…but Daddy comes home tonight and that makes it all right.
• Kitchen cabinets are looking pretty awesome. Of course they still don’t have any doors or any drawers – but I love the difference it has made in our kitchen. It feels new and a little more modern and sooooo much cleaner. I picked out a pretty green-blue for the walls too. It is just a bit darker than the green outline in our tile. I’m very happy with the decision to not do the cabinets in that green now. I really do think that the neutral cabinets will let us play with the rest of the kitchen color for many years to come…and Lord knows I do not want to be painting kitchen cabinets for many years to come!
• Football season starts tomorrow. Go Blue.
  
  
• Mommy rules. I had one of the best parenting moments earlier this week. Our “rule” in the house is that you have to “read the book before you can see the movie.” I always feel like the books are better, and it is a rule I keep for myself, too. When I see a movie that looks good and it was adapted from a book I haven’t read, I will make sure to read it first. So we have been working our way through the Harry Potter books – reading each night with Daddy. Last Friday we finished the 4th book and Emma could barely control her excitement for movie night on Saturday. While we were out walking on Sunday morning she turned to me and said, “You know, Mom? I don’t think the Goblet of Fire movie is really very good. Well, it is good, but I don’t like that it doesn’t have all the good stuff in the book in it. They don’t even talk about Winky or show Dobby. I just think I like the book better.”

  Cue the clouds parting, sunbeam shining down and chorus of angels singing. Ahhhhhh. Yes. Validation. See? Sometimes Mama gets something right.

• Winter whites.
  We also had a discussion this morning about wearing white after Labor Day.
  Em: “Mama? Is it true you can’t wear anything white after Labor Day?”
  Me: “Well not ANY thing. You are not supposed to wear white pants/skirts and shoes. Although I don’t think a lot of people follow that rule any more, especially here since the seasons are not as defined. But you kind of switch out your summer wear for winter wear on Labor Day.”
  Ad: “But you can wear your white shoes on Easter!”
  Me: “Right, that is kind of the start of the spring season, so you get your white shoes back out.”
  Em: “So, no white in winter time.”
  Ad: “RIGHT! Because if you were wearing white…nobody would be able to see you!”

Yeah, took me a minute too. Especially coming from the kid who has barely spent a week in snow!

Hope your Friday is filled with love – and your whole weekend, too! See you next week.