Does anyone have weekends like this anymore?

Also I need to know how you get your child to colour for a whole morning because my kid can manage 20 mins max and that is incredibly good going from him these days. Those acitivities you mention would probably take up two hours tops here.

I wish families would do this more. The kids I teach are just so busy they don't get to just be kids. My cousin's DD
does dance, swimming, karate, piano, football and singing. Every weekend is filled with doing things once clubs are finished. Whilst I know they want her to have lots of opportunities she just needs time to play. To occupy herself as her time is micromanaged to the nth degree.

This is the cause of some classroom behaviour as kids need entertaining constantly. .

Your weekend sounds lovely BUT I have a five and a two year old who would make me tear my hair out all weekend if I tried to do a weekend like that, not least because I can’t ship them off to a friends for a few hours.

We have something planned each weekend in December, it won’t take all day and it won’t be both days but I need to get out of the house with them for a good few hours else we all go mad. I might post photos on social media, this doesn’t mean I’m doing something all the time, I’d just never post photos of me making lasagne and watching a Christmas film (or my kids fighting, the endless piles of laundry to put away, the stressful dog walk with everyone bickering)

YANBU. Your weekend sounds relaxing, fun and cosy. We do similar with our young children. It’s lovely to have unhurried time to play, read, eat and spend time all together. School eats into so much time during the week.

Don’t compare
Come off social media - without it gou wouldn’t be comparing as gou wouldn’t know

No FOMO
So liberating

Don’t believe everything you see on social media media. Your weekend sounds fabulous.

You have one kid. You had a nice weekend. All wholesome needs met. Congrats on being perfect.

We have (adorable but) totally bonkers 4 and 1 year olds with wildly different needs so frankly our weekends feel a bit like a sort of survival exercise/Japanese game show / test from God and I’m often quite relieved to see Monday morning and my desk. 😂 Yours sounds lovely, and I’d spend not a minute being jealous of anyone at Winter Wonderland paying £8 for a watery hot chocolate.

Sounds a bit stealth boasty. You know some people do normal things at the weekend. You also know most people don’t have the time or means to have a weekend you’ve described. You know the people you’re seeing on IG aren’t doing that every single weekend.

Last weekend we were in a city at a theatre, this weekend has been really chilled with dog walks and trips to a garden centre Christmas exhibitions each day, getting the tree, decorating etc. Next weekend, different city (for a special event followed by celebration lunch). Do I post sitting having a film night? No. Do I post our trip to the theatre? Yes.

It sounds completely normal and very relaxed. I am envious of the lack of chores! My DC are a bit older now but weekends were often like that when they were that age, just with a few more chores and probably a party to attend most weekends.

I think some families are more high energy than others. Some of my friends do an awful lot with their kids, but they still manage to keep on top of life, and they get their homework done etc easily. Whereas it seems to take us longer to get things done - kids want to get up late, need help with homework etc - so we are not a rushing round family. It is definitely better not to compare!

Sounds normal to me. This Friday night I had a chilli at my mums’s with my DD(3), my sis and brother popped in for a bit. We did some dancing and yoga with my daughter then went home to bed.

Saturday DH was working so me and DD had a lazy late morning in bed, got up had some food. Went shopping, ate lunch in Morrisons cafe with MiL, bought and Xmas tree, went home and decorated it - DD joined in. Then I made spaghetti and meatballs and DH came home, ate it went to bed

Today after breakfast, I cleaned house and cooked a casserole while DD played with her dolls/stickers. DH slept late then and did some DIY. At some point we had cheese sandwiches and a bowl of soup. Peppa pig on telly the whole day, didn’t change out of PJs til 2pm. Ate the casserole and then went to bed.

I don’t know what people expect from the weekend tbh.

Sounds like a normal weekend. I’m not on instagram though so I have no idea what the alternate reality is that you think is “normal”.

We did shopping, cleaning and ironing. I put up the Christmas tree and wrote some cards. DH watched the GP and we both had a couple of hours out doing our individual hobbies. I haven't time to go away!

Right! Just do your thing OP. Why are you bothered about what other people are doing?

I thought your post was telling us what a lovely weekend you had!

Sounds to me as if you did a lot, not boring at all.

Most of our weekends are similar to yours. Yesterday my daughter had a martial arts grading session and then I had my work Christmas party.

Today my other daughter and I helped out at a community event and then went swimming, and we all went to meet a neighbour’s new kitten.

Nothing glamorous but I enjoyed every minute.

Those events are staggeringly expensive. I did get a Facebook memory that ds and I went to the ice skating at Somerset House with my sister, but that was 6 years ago. Who can afford that stuff?

I think you’d enjoy the Good Morning Mumsnet threads on here if you haven’t seen them. People do have nice plans on there but mostly it’s just quiet family or solo activities.

Nobody posts their regular weekends on socials though, so you’re never going to get an accurate picture.

Sounds brilliant. It felt like your last couple of sentences, saying your weekend was boring or similar, was a real plot twist!!!

No.
I don't think most people are out at parties, fancy dinners in restaurants and new sparkly outfits for every occasion.
As we circle back to feudalism - few people can afford it.
Only those at the top of the feudal hierarchy can.

Your weekend sounds idyllic, OP! Don't believe everything you see on the socials, the grass isn't always greener.