3-Day Weekends Anyone?

All weekends should be three-day weekends. There I said it. I need one day to rest and play with the kids and generally have no agenda, one day to run my errands -- you know Sam's, the grocery store, etc. and one day to handle my domestic duties -- the cleaning, the laundry the cooking. Is this too much to ask for? I announced to Bill yesterday that I really need to figure out a way to make this happen. This as I juggled the errands and the domestic duties in one day. This the price I paid for taking it easy on Saturday while Bill was at work and the kids and I were home. Ultimately something always suffers and as I look at the clutter that is piling up in my house and the piles of laundry that reproduce like bunnies in the spring time I fully realize it is my domestic duties. We have to eat so I always seem to get the errands done -- my checkbook will attest to that -- but somehow I always seem to run out of day and the house is only half-clean, the laundry half-done and cooking -- well forget it. Taco Bell anyone (and if that isn't dumb after dropping $200 at the grocery store I don't know what is)?

I'm not complaining about the domestic duties -- heck I realize how lucky I am to have a home to clean (and clutter!), laundry to wash and a machine to wash it in. I just need more time.

Any other working parents out there feel the same? Heck I think you don't even have to be a parent to feel that way. The solution? Anyone? Well I am working on a solution and I will let you know when I find it. For now to cut down on the never ending laundry -- everyone has to wear the same clothes at least two days, to reduce the vacuuming needed no eating will be allowed inside the house and the cooking -- we all go on diets?? O.K. a bit extreme on all accounts but it sounded good for one second.

Let me know if you figure out how to find more time. I am on a tight budget so I can't pay a lot but I think I would write a check tomorrow if you told me I could buy some!