If DD is with us (sometimes she goes to her dad for the weekend):
Friday: DH finishes work mid-afternoon. Sometimes we meet up, though sometimes one or both of us haveother plans. Friday night is pizza night. Sometimes we buy it takeaway, sometimes we make it ourselves.
Saturday: If DD isn't going to her dad's at all that weekend i give DH a lie in one day and he lets me have one the next. So assuming i'm giving him the lie in, i get up with DD and take her down to have breakfast. I tend not to eat with her, instead i wait until DH gets up. Once he is up we have breakfast again (DD joins in, she could eat all day!). Usually we have pastries or croissants or a big cooked breakfast at the weekend with lush coffee and lots of chatting - something a bit different from what we have all week. After that we go out. We usually have a plan of something we're wanting to do/see - shopping we need (never groceries, just items, like maybe toiletries or clothes) or similar, or a farmers market to go to, or a park or a rello we want to visit. Saturday night we watch a dvd or tv movie together.
Sunday: morning we have a nice breakfast again and take DD swimming. She loves the pool and we all always have great fun. After that sometimes DH goes off to see friends, sometimes we take DD on to a park or to see the IL's, or we might take her to a museum. Sunday night is when DH sees friends, if he's going to.
Its family time. So it doesn't matter what we do so long as its as a family. Some weekends can be hectic others quite boring it just depends. This weekend we're going to see the Star Wars exhibit at Scienceworks, we also have a dinner party to attend and probably some house decluttering to do. Generally Sunday are godparents day, where they come over and I cook a vegetarian meal and we spend time together. We are about to start other activities on Saturday mornings (like a walk to the park, bike ride etc) so that DH and the kids spend time together. My problem is I am very selfish with HIM and he is with me we don't want to do things apart and often that can lead to us just being in each others presence instead of utilising the time properly. So saturday mornings he's going to spend time with the kids or one, and I will do something special with the other, or I'll clean the house so we can enjoy our time together without me stressing over needing to clean
Bx a lot of what you've put I could have written myself. This is how our mornings go too, one sleeps in the other doesn't, then the one who was sleeping in usually gets woken by a nice hot latte and then we have a hot breaky together.
Our weekends are Sunday-Monday, so we usually go to the shops, have a squiz, maybe check out some markets, have lunch, maybe a park picnic if its nice, do a little Sunday drive, we have a fun dinner, like pizza or a bbq or something quck that we can cook together.
Monday we usually see Shel's mum, sometimes Shel takes Jazz by herself and I have an hour or two by myself, sometimes we all go and have lunch together.
Not very exciting, but we're just itching to go do active and 'kids' stuff, when Jazzy starts toddling. Bush walks, beach when it warms up etc. Bit hard to carry a 12kg baby around! lol!
I work Saturday mornings, so really we have Saturday afternoon & Sunday together. I get pretty possessive of our time together because we have less than two days together as a family each week. I'm really happy this weekend because it's our first one in ages that we don't have something planned on the Sunday (I've had baby showers the last two Sundays). On Saturday we're going to have a declutter & reorganise in part of the house - moving the toys from the lounge to the study & moving the computer etc. On Sunday we are going out somewhere together as a family, probably Centennial to hire bikes for the day
I always get a little me time on Sat morn when DH is home, he is often away a lot for work. I grab a coffee & then do the food shopping......not really fun me time!! LOL.
We renovate most wkends as we need to do lots to the house before next bubs arrives & DS post around with us. We also often have a lazy bbq day with friends. We are too far away to do the drive & pub lunch.....used to do it often when we lived in SA before DS was born. Now it's really all about the house or just going to the park. Not much else to do in a small town.
As a nurse i get one weekend in 6 off!! with the saturday before hand off also, so we generally try and do something couply on atleast one of the days off.. we camp sometimes, or day trip and pub lunches or 4wd on the beach or just picnic and bush walks. This saturday we are off to beach drive and picnic and bushwalk... next weekend we have 2 nights away.
We love outdoors stuff so when bubs comes along and im on maternity leave i hope we do a lot more together stuff!
Saturdays are a nightmare. DS has Spanish lessons at 9am so DD and i take DS there. At 10am DD has swimming lessons so we both go and do that. At 12pm, we pick DS from Spanish lesson and then i start to tidy up, clean and cook. I may hit the shops for grocery shopping later in the arvo or have an afternoon nap with DD and DS usually occupies himself with telly, PSP, DS, Wii or internet.
Sundays, clean, cook, tidy, hit the shops for lunch with the kids, arvo nap.
If DH is home, he sleeps in on Saturday and i sleep in on Sunday. Have a massive brekkie, tidy up, cook and hit the gym. DH usually does gardening on the weekends.
DF normally works until 1 on Saturdays and it's 2 before he's home so it's a bit of a write off - I normally run around like a mad chook that arvo getting all the jobs done that I can't do when he's not home.
Sundays - sometimes go for a drive - normally I have blue and he plays guitar hero or mows the lawns etc
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