DP is a shiftworker and until recently was barely home on weekends. I've now banned him from taking extra jobs on weekend and it's FANTASTIC.
We've taken to having a bit of a country drive and a pub lunch - we've done Kyneton and today we did Yarra Glen. Last weekend we went to the Collingwood CHildren's Farm Farmers Market.
I'm a bit like a kid in a lolly shop but we're trying to decide what to do tomorrow. Thinking of going to Caulfield on a bagel hunt.
I'm a bit selfish and tend to seize a bit of "me time" on the weekends as i am at home with the kids Mon-Fri. DH prefers to potter around the house on the weekends too because he spends all week out at work (in the city)... so it's kinda like we are at odds. On a typical weekend;
Saturday morning I get up early and go out for breakfast by myself, usually in the city. Then I do a bit of shopping, or go for acupuncture or see a movie. I also usually head to a bookshop, usually Borders where you can have a coffee and read in a comfy chair for long periods. I get home at about 2pm... later if I have to do lots of extra shopping. Often I will do the grocery shopping and DH will pick me up... at about 5pm. Then I will tidy up the house while DH cooks dinner. In the warmer months I might also spend the afternoon in the garden.
Sunday: Sometimes I go to church... sometimes I help DH take the kids to their sport activities. Sometimes we'll go to a park or go for a family walk. DD might have friends over so we'll try to socialise with them a bit too. Ideally I will get a bit of time alone in the house to do some sewing or needlework or just tidy up... DH might take the kids to the hardware store. I'll stay home and put on some music and potter myself without my boys wanting to be involved or making it hard.
We tend not to do long family drives anymore... the kids get ansty in the car. Although we went away last weekend to East Gippsland that's a rarity. Maybe when we buy a bigger car (planned for the end of the year) we'll get back to doing that.
From Sept - Mar. DD Does Little Athletics which takes a big chunk out of our weekends too.
well until dec, it's just DH and I at home and both working full time i weekends are just treasures of time to spend together.
although DH is owrking today , that's not common.
we usually lay in bed, dtd, read the papers, have breakfast ect and roll out when we feel like it. Then we'll usually head into the shops for coffee/lunch/shopping and spend the rest of the day just doing our own thing intermixed with housework.
we torment our fur baby (and she just loves it).
we'll usually cook dinner together, with a little canoodling, and then settle to watch a doco or movie. Sometimes we go ten pin bowling and if its nice weather we'll go for a walk.
during summer we are a little more active in the sports dept and go fishing/camping when we can.
i love my lazy, cuddly, snuggly weekends with DH. i know how lucky we are to have had 3yrs (married) of this before our bubba arrives! but if you have kids, our kind of weekend really wouldn't be very entertaining lol.
Before I forget, there's a website called White Hat that covers things to do in Melbourne. It's very community-oriented and it's not-for-profit and has some great ideas. Pretty daggy website but they also have a newsletter that you can subscribe to that they send to you on Friday arvos - it's a bit quirky but good.
Bath- your weekends sound absolutely divine. I'm often in Borders too on the weekend - we may have sat next to each other!
Rainforest - thanks for the Olinda and Pig & Whistle tip, I'll put it on the list!
Must say all these country drives are setting me off on another 'let's have a treechange' obsession. I think it's something to do with winter too - always makes me want to be in a big country house, next to a log fire and watching DD run around a big backyard rugged up to within an inch of her life then coming in to eat a hearty stew.
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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