April 15th - Yahoo!!

April 15th...what a day! For many of you it is just another day - "tax day" to most of my co-workers. To me it is like my own personal independence day. April 15th means going back to a four-day work week and normal hours instead of five days a week - sometimes six - and hours that go well into the night (sometimes into the morning!!). April 15th means my kids can stop looking at the calendar to figure out how many more Fridays Mommy has to work. April 15th means my husband can take a breathe and relax a bit knowing I will be home at 5:15 most nights. April 15th means my mother and mother-in-law (God love these women!!) can take a well deserved break from hauling kids to dance class and catechism and keeping kids into the evening because their working mother got caught in a meeting or needs to finish a tax return!

If you look at the calendar, spring began on March 20th this year. But for our family, April 15th is truly the start of spring for our family - a new beginning of sorts. The days are longer, the weather is warmer and fun things are bound to happen on Fridays:)