What Day is It, Anyway?

With school closed so much for the past 2 weeks, I have lost track of what day of the week it is. Last week, the kids were home on Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and then on Tuesday for a snow day. By mid-week, my time radar was completely scrambled. As I pulled out of the driveway one morning, I spotted blue recycling bins everywhere."Geez," I mumbled, "why are everyone's bins out so early? It's only Wednesday morning. Why not wait until tonight to put them out for tomorrow's pickup?" Then I heard a truck's low rumbling and realized that my neighbors were not all crazy early birds ... but that it was actually Thursday, recycling day.

This week was worse: after Monday off for Teacher's Professional Day, the kids had school on Tuesday but then enjoyed snow days on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday! On Thursday night, I wrote a message on the OBX to cancel a Saturday event "originally scheduled for tomorrow." Luckily, a sharp-eyed OBX reader emailed me to clarify if I actually meant tomorrow (Friday) or the day after tomorrow (Saturday).

Yesterday I ran errands with my kids, thinking it was Saturday (after all, they hadn't had school the day before). We enjoyed a strange sensation of freedom from the usual weekend activities. This bubble of freedom, however, was burst when we were up in Howard County and discovered that we needed to be back in Olney for Friday afternoon piano lessons.

So, today is Saturday, right? Is it the weekend yet? Can anyone tell at this point?