Does anyone have weekends like this anymore?

Yes this is definately a smug stealth boast augmented by wide-eyed 'is my child missing out? 'concern'.
The correct rensponse is: No your child is lucky to have such a perfect family and life, well done OP

When I first read your post I thought you were kind of bragging, because honestly, your weekend sounded amazing.
And, judging how great your wonderful weekend is compared to others social media post...don't believe it.... Seriously.
Half of what you see/read is exaggerated or flat out untrue, and the other half, who cares?
You're not missing out

Just been looking at Instagram etc and so many posts of visits to cities, girls nights out, santa spectacular shows, Lapland, London visits etc and just feeling a bit

Why?

Honestly, as much as these things are nice to do, don't you think the people who do these ALSO crave the beauty of a cosy, lazy weekend?

I find the run up to Christmas with a zillion events and Things To Do great BUT

Fuck me do I look forward to when that's done too. Precisely so we get those days of PJs and films and no crowds and bullshit.

It's not an either / or jealousy thing.

It's appreciating both.

Your weekend sounds perfect to me!

Sorry maybe that was me being a touch grumpy on a Sunday evening. It is indeed a perfect weekend.

I don’t think weekends are mutually exclusive with doing ‘planned’ stuff too though - we do a combination of both. Both are lovely. But you’re spot on in that you don’t need to do the big stuff to be happy.

It sounds like such a wholesome weekend, it reads like a stealth boast. Or maybe a stealth judge rather than a genuine concern that your DD is missing out. I don't think you believe she is for a minute do you?

✨delete social media✨

Seriously. It's not very relaxing if it's making you worry enough about your parenting to make a Mumsnet post about it, is it?

Depends where you live, surely. We’re in fairly central London so lots to do out and about, but we also go out to the countryside as much as we can.

Some weekends would be like yours (DD is a teen now), some we’d do lots more.

We do. Today we had football this morning, then home, I did some bits of cooking and laundry and child did her painting. Walked the dog this afternoon, made dinner, child went to bed.

Saturday is either just the dog walk in the afternoon, or town for shopping, or more rarely a trip to the city farm or the museum.

My best moment this weekend was predicting when poor DS was going to puke and being ready with the sick bucket, perfect catch and no mess. It happened while we were having my (birthday) dinner.
These are the realities of life not you don't see posts about them ( probably because it's off putting!).
You do see lots of IG posts saying what children really want is your time and for you to play with them, so you're winning 😉

I think your weekend sounds perfect and you all seem happy with it which is what counts. Give yourself a pat on the back!

We have a mix of weekends like you and weekends which are much busier and “Insta-worthy”. You sound like you’re patting yourself on the back for something which most people do for a good proportion of their weekends though.

In on Friday night after a busy week for everyone. Jobs around the house on Saturday as well as supermarket shop. Things like writing Christmas cards, cleaning bathroom, baking, washing etc. Gig on Saturday night for everyone (unusual late night but a treat). Got Christmas tree today and decorated it and more house jobs. Plus kids did their homework. This evening we watched a Christmas film together. It's too cold to be venturing out for me!

Just checking what others are doing

Haha it sounds like a lovely week and fairly similar to how mine has gone tbh!
no ‘Christmassy’ activities planned, I have chilled quite a lot and spent some time with the family.
I do have a works do midweek, some nice plans to see people towards the end of the week and a girls night out at the weekend but genuinely all of those things have been organised by other people, I actually bloody love December weekends relaxing at home.
oldest has been working loads so nice to spend some time with her today, we went into town and got some Christmas wrapping paper, stopped at a cosy bar for a beer and slice of pizza. Dh and ds were home watching the snooker then we had a giant roast this evening.

Your weekend sounds lovely, my favourite kind - it’s important to me to get out in the fresh air every day and I’ll try and force ds out for the same but it was absolutely pissing it down incessantly today. He’s been out 6 days this week, one day wasn’t going to hurt so he’s had a proper and deserved lazy one today.

It sounds like a perfect weekend to me. Mum to two teenagers... yesterday eldest (20) was at volunteering work. Youngest (17) out with his friend. Today we decorated the Christmas tree and had a lovely curry for dinner.... they really enjoyed it x i would rather have quality family time every time

Well you’re not wrong of course and it sounds idyllic. However the tone of your post does come across as a touch smug, though I can’t pinpoint why.

We are having such chill weekends (as kids sports are on hold) its been lovely and relaxing

Sounds like a perfect weekend to me. Kids needs family downtime. Ignore the Instagram making memories stuff. That's ok occasionally if its your thing. Nobody needs that all the time. I don't need it ever. I love chilled weekends.

Do you always do the cooking?