Time With my Little - A weeked Off?

Vicky ended up spending almost the whole weekend with me. Vicky is my almost-ten-year-old little sister. She is my match from Big Brothers and Big Sisters (BBBS).

Her mom gave permission for her to spend as much time as she wanted, with me, so she went home with me after her party. She walked into the house, took one look around my office and declared, I can see you have a lot to do. We were and still are in the middle of preparing my holiday mailing that needs go out in time for the holidays.

Yet, I needed to spend some time with Vicky. We have an arrangement to spend an hour per week together. We often don't get to do sequential weeks, but if we averaged out the time it would perhaps turn out to be more than an hour per week. As often happens, planned, two-hour events expand into day-long visits and even sleepovers taking us into the other day.

This weekend, we went to Vicky's party just after mid day. Next we went to my party with my service club and that was a perfect lead into a sleepover. It was getting late. Next day being Sunday, it seemed natural we should go to church in the morning. Work took a back seat. It is no wonder I am now behind in getting my mailing done. But it's all right. I did need a weekend off!

I didn't get to take pictures. Somehow I left both my camera and my phone behind. But Vicki had a new toy, one of the tiniest cameras I ever saw, and she took lots of pictures. Sadly, we did not have the appropriate software on my computer to download them. I'll just have to use a picture from last month's picnic.

Life can be busy in Albuquerque! That's the truth.