Today is Friday and it is my SD12's weekend at her mother's. For 2 stress free nights I get to feel like I am welcome and comfortable in my own home.  Does anyone else feel this way and does this make me a bad person?!?  Probably both are true.  I hate that I like it when she is gone, but dammit it feels good.  We are planning on taking our 4 year old to Boo at the Zoo if the rain holds off.  It will be nice to spend some time with him without worrying what she is going to do to ruin the day.  My BS16 plays his last football game of the season tonight which I am both excited and bummed about.  We don't do any winter sports in our family so I love my hibernation period of movies and relaxing at home.  He plays H.S. baseball, travel ball, local summer league, and football.  So from mid-Feb-November my life as a sports mom is non-stop.  My BD13 plays softball, but she isn't so intense about it.  My BD14 was thinking about trying out for basketball which begins Monday, and I was selfishly hoping she wouldn't and spoil my winter down time.  She called me from her dad's last night to let me know that Biology was stressing her out too much and that she didn't want to add basketball to her schedule (Yay!).  <--Not yay that she is stressed about Biology but yay she isn't adding to our winter schedule.  I am ready to enjoy this weekend and make some fall treats and watch some Halloween movies.  I bought the book The Haunting of Hill House to read before we begin watching the Netflix series, so if it is rainy I forsee a weekend of couch snuggles and naps for all of us.