Everyday Systems

Today is my son's 5th birthday. We'll have cake, and then we're invited over to the neighbors and we'll have ice cream.

Then it's the Easter Weekend, with a big Easter dinner at MIL's house on Saturday night, and the Easter bunny is coming with a HUGE bag of chocolates the morning after.

I've been good all week, 7 days now, and I was wondering, is it allowed to have 3 S-days in a week, or should I force myself and make one weekend S-day a Non-S day?

Thanks for any advice!

Karin

Your son's birthday is a Special Day, which makes it an S-Day regardless of which day of the week it is. Celebrate and enjoy it.

Then take your Saturday and Sunday as usual.

Really???? Gosh, I'm so worried! Can I handle 3 S-Days???

Yes, one's kid's birthday is an unambiguous S-day. Enjoy!

A week isn't a very useful scale on which to measure this. Try a month. A good rough metric for acceptable compliance is 2 non-weekend S-days a month. If you have that or less, don't sweat it. If you have more... start considering whether you need to apply more stringent criteria to what qualifies as an S-day.

Reinhard