Tell me about your WEEKEND routine!
I've read so many articles about the "morning routines" of high achievers. There are four or five key strategies that I feel like every successful person utilizes to make the most of their mornings. I feel like I "get" what makes a morning successful. I want to know what successful families do on weekends! I'd love to hear about your weekends and if you feel like they are successful--or not and what makes them so. I'm wondering if there are some generalizations that make a great weekend routine or if weekends are just entirely different for every person/family. So please share!
For me personally, I like structure. Weekends with my big family should be marvelous but instead they are hard. The week overwhelms me and I like to work all day Saturday on house work and projects which means that my kids are not that productive because they need my time and attention. If we have try to have a "fun" weekend instead then I feel behind all week. I'm torn between focusing solely on the kids and on work. And then there is a further division--should I be educating and training the kids or should we be having fun?
One thing that might make our weekends look different is that Sundays are rather strictly observed here. We attend church most weeks (we skip if we feel like there are COVID issues that would make that unsafe) on Sunday but we also get to relax and spend time as a family. We don't shop, work, or do a lot of big recreational activities on Sundays in our quest to "make it holy". That leaves one weekend day to be everything else.
I'd love to hear what is working (or not!) for you! TIA!
Tell me about your WEEKEND routine!
We usually go to church either at 5 :15 pm on Saturday night or either 10:30 am or 5:15 on Sunday; we have been going a lot on Sunday at 5:15.
The rest of the weekend is spent doing house and or yard work, relaxing, or homework. I had been playing tennis from 9-10 am on Saturday at our club, but the club recently changed management and the Saturday tennis clinic hasn’t started again. I also volunteer with the local junior league a few Saturdays a month (we have a diaper bank); Dd1 also occasionally goes with me. I try to do a Peloton workout or two as well. The girls don’t currently have set Saturday activities but have done art class or tennis class. Art for DD2 will start in October, and tennis for DD1 will start again in November or January depending on when DD1 feels like she is okay doing something on Saturday mornings again. She is currently playing high school tennis M-Th, and has a football game for dance on Friday nights. Football goes through the end of October. Basketball will start after tennis and football ends so she will be dancing at home basketball games as well. We don’t know when the basketball games will be yet.
I honestly don’t feel like I get enough done on the weekends and I contribute that to being home all week. I need my downtime and since I am home all
week too (even though I am working then) I really want to relax on the weekends.
Every so often we go somewhere for a day trip; yesterday we went to the beach, it I do feel like we don’t go out as much as we did pre Covid.
Fwiw: we outsource most yard work (we have a 1/2 acre lot) and the gardener comes weekly; Dh does do trimming of the trees; we have 3 olive trees, an orange and lemon tree. We also have a pool guy who comes once a week. Dh says we will only have the gardener until he retires; we estimate he is in his early 50s (he was recommended by the prior owner and we liked him and with being home all the time we just decided it was one less thing to worry about) and DH says that he will start doing all the yard work then (I highly doubt it though).
We are awful at meal planning. I shop once a week and buy staples and cook what I feel like cooking each night. I need to be better about making the kids fold clothes. We don’t make our kids so enrichment educational work; although they did do Kumon in the past (DD2 through 4th grade, and DD1 did it in 5th and 6th grades). Especially since COVID it just feels counterproductive to make them spend more time inside when they can be outside.
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