Cherish the weekends

Happy Monday everyone! Why do we not like Mondays? Maybe we don't like Mondays because we are still on a high from the weekend and still want to sleep in and don't want to get dressed for work and think about the emails that you didn't open before you left for the weekend. You still want to have more time being together as a family and not to worry about getting to work or school on time. Since having kids, I feel our weekends get filled up fast by playdates or sports activities and by the time you're done with all your activities you're looking at the clock on a Sunday and you see it is late and you starting thinking "crap" I have to set alarm and pack their things for tomorrow. Making sure you packed the right blanket or stuffy animal for you kid, or you're going to hear later from them telling us that we didn't do it right. I definitely packed the wrong blanket before, I learned really quickly to ask my wife "What blanket is he loving now?" and she would tell me, "We are on the stars blanket." One day I will get it right.

As I was a child, my parents loved to throw beach parties because they live on a lake. They would invite family and really close friends to these parties and people would bring so much food to share. Some of the foods we had were my aunt's pasta salad, one of my dad's friend's potato salads and the best one of the bunch was my uncle famous hot wings. These wings made you sweat and the best part of the wings was that it was his creation. You could never ask him for the recipe. I think the reason why he didn't want to tell us about his recipe nis because it was a way that he showed his love for us, and he didn't want anyone to take that from him (RIP uncle). My parents would ask people who had boats to bring their boat because who doesn't want to just lay on a boat with your close friends and family and talk.

My uncle had two sets of tubes. The first one was called the "Winnie." That one stunk because I could never stay on the tube. The second tube was called the " Big Bertha". I remember thinking that this tube is big, and there is no way that little me would try this. My uncle would let the skiers go first because skiers like calm water and don't like tubers and when the skiers were done, he would say to us "It's tubing time." My brother and my cousin would come to me and say, "let's do the big bertha together." We get in water, and we wait for my uncles' famous words that he would say to us right before we take off.  "Sit down, shut up and hold on." My uncle put the boat in gear, and we take off. I remember being on the tube and I would be screaming or singing, and brother would try to make us laugh and my cousin would always have one leg out of the tube. She liked to fall out of the tube. My uncle loved to do a lot of turns and whips and try to get us out of the tube. By the end of the tubing experience, your head would have to come back to normal because of all the falls and the whips. I never wanted these weekends to be over because it was so much fun to with people who you love and respect. 

It's funny to think 33 years later you are still thinking about a weekend that impacted on you. My goal is to cherish life to the fullest and make more memories for my kids and look back on what we did together. It might be that we learned how to ride a bike on Saturday or learned how talk, it still happened on the weekend. This should make going to work be easier for you because you can tell your coworkers that something great happened this weekend and now it's a great memory for you.

Next time we see the clock on a Sunday thinking about this week, how it is going to suck, let's try together and think 1 good thing that happened to you this weekend and then tell your coworker or a friend about it and see where it takes off. If we can keep putting positive things in our head, I think it will make your work week better.

Thanks

Tim