how to spend a Friday when Daddy doesn't have work

Start the day by exercising. After breakfast, you might head over to the berry farm to pick your own strawberries.
Even if you don't like berries, you can enjoy the picking!
Check out the goods. We intended on each child filling their bucket less than half full. Well, in what seemed like less than 6 minutes, we had both buckets filled... and our bellies, too. Of course, when the berries are the size of baseballs, it's easy to fill your bucket!
We kept telling Carl to stop picking because we had enough berries, but he kept saying, "Ooo! Here's one I can pick!" and adding more to his pail. He wouldn't even taste one this year, but he did keep asking me "When can we come and pick blueberries?" He won't eat those either.
Now, look back on our turtle post and remember how tiny that little guy was in my hand. He'd be able to eat for a week on one of these berries!
OK, berry picking is almost done.
Relax a little before heading for the next stop.
At this point, stop at Michael's craft store to stock up on supplies for some teacher gifts. Teacher Appreciation Week is coming up in early May and each year we paint wooden magnets for one day's little gift. We've done hearts and flowers in the past. Today, we bought butterflies. The kids will paint them, I'll spray seal them and we'll stick a magnet to the back. So, 2 teachers, 2 directors and 3 therapists. I want to get an early start on them. We also bought more stepping stone supplies. Those are gifts for the teachers (and directors and therapists) for the end of the year in mid May. Gotta get a jump on making those, too because we only have 3 molds. I should pick up one more so we can do 4 at once. The box of mix makes 2 stones per box. They take a couple days to dry before you can reuse the mold. That's why we start those early.

Go grocery shopping and have lunch at Costco. You will meet someone there from the camera club. It is guaranteed. Today, I happened to meet a lady before we even entered the store and then as we ate, another member stopped by and sat with us for a few minutes. He offered to pull Gretchen's loose tooth, but she turned him down.

Take your groceries home, grab your flash and head back out to a toy store for a Pat The Bunny event. That ended up taking about an hour to work our way through the line to get to hold the sweet little baby bunnies. They were only 4 weeks old and this was their first time meeting people. Gretchen wasn't confident enough and the bunny kept wiggling away on her. By the time I was holding one, she wasn't in the mood to let me try to help her in any way. It was close to 4 pm, about 2 hours after nap usually starts. Carl wasn't too keen on not being able to run amok in the toy store, too, but he did enjoy snuggling the bunnies.
Stop to hug Pat the Bunny (you know, from the book)
After all this excitement, head home for a late nap.

Then, go out to dinner to one of your very favorite local restaurants. Mmmmm...... fried green tomatoes, wings, cheeseburger and chicken fingers!! They see us come in and bring our drinks right over: diet coke, water, white milk and chocolate milk. We're there at least once a week. Big Ken would approve of the place despite their lack of liver and onions.

Get home late. Watch The Cosby Show and hockey play-offs. Put on your jammies and go to bed because tomorrow is Saturday and you never know what fun things you might have in store!