And it starts with tonight. Both kids will be at Auntie’s while the Hubby and I attend a 40th b-day party at The Crystal Ballroom’s 80s themed DJ night. It sounds like fun. Then tomorrow we drop off the Daughter to babysit her younger cousins, the Son may be staying home or going to a friend’s house, and the Hubby and I will be going to a Chinese New Year celebration. AND THEN! On Sunday afternoon we are all going to our nephew’s/cousin’s birthday party.

Such heightened activity on a weekend is foreign to us.

This could the beginning of a new era. The kids are getting older and the Son can stay home by himself. Not so much the Daughter. But they can be alone together for a little while, which wasn’t the case a year ago. So the times are a changing, slowly but surely. There’s no reason to rush it as it happens on its own.

I think my kids are pretty awesome. Last weekend I heard them listening to Prairie Home Companion together in the Son’s room. Moments like that help balance out all the other times they fight and argue with us and each other.

Very cool, indeed.