What do you do at the weekends?

[Littletreasure2017]

Bit nosey I know but wanted to ask what you do as a couple or as a family at the weekends and do you see your pil every weekend? Xx

Weekends are mostly taken up with DC activities.
On a Friday evening we will be out until seven doing sports and then will generally have a drink with the neighbors.
On Saturday dc1 and Dc4 both dance. DC4 is only for half an hour whereas dc1 is all day and about an hour from home. DH also plays football. If DH is playing away we will all go with DC 1 and make a day of it. We socialize most Saturday evenings with friends.
On Sunday In term time all DC will generally play sports. Either a match or training. We will often see PIL for lunch or dinner or if no sports we'll all go for a walk in the morning.

Drive the kids miles and miles the and from football.

They’re dead.

on saturday both my boys have boxing so we take them to that and then go for breakfast somewhere afterwards. then we normally go somewhere in the afternoon - the park, a walk, a national trust property, the zoo. my mum and dad have all three of the kids to sleep on a saturday night so me and my partner will do something together. and then on sunday we go to my parent’s for dinner and then go for a walk in the woods with our dog before we go home and the kids have a bath with a lush bath bomb and we all snuggle up to watch a film before bed. my partner has no contact with his dad and his mum passed away when he was little so there are no parent in laws to visit for us.

Saturdays are anything - relaxing at home, day out, visiting family it friends or sometimes I have day with friends and dh does something with the kids.
Sundays are usually football, hw, chores, then everyone relaxing for dinner and a film afterwards.

My boyfriend and I (no kids) will usually have a nice dog walk in the woods/park that's not the local ones both days.

Saturday is used more for getting things done (eg visiting family/go to the cinema/out for dinner)

Sunday is more restful, sleep in morning, time together, lunch out, food shop.

Equally we could spend an entire weekend doing absolutely nothing! Like this weekend both feeling a bit ill so today we did a quick park walk for the dog, food shop top up and we've been in the rest of the day.

Tomorrow, nothing until 4pm (I have a job interview) then we're at my parents for my birthday dinner.

Friday night me and dh went out for dinner.
Lazy Saturday morning at home.
Me,dh and four kids went to the kids jujitsu lesson then went into Manchester for an Indian.
Tomorrow morning dh will take the kids out to see his dad and brother and to a park.
I will be at home having a break! But also doing some ironing and preparing a roast.

That's pretty average really usually one of the dc has a party. Dh always takes them to see his dad at some point as I'm a sahm and it's nice to have some child free time. I see his dad twice in the week when he pops over so I'm not being rude by not going.

Saturday: early morning club swimming with one DS the football match with other DS then lunch and housework
Sunday: rugby or cricket match depending on the season with one DS then lunch and housework then lifesaving with both DS.
No time for visiting parents who live 2 hrs drive away and PIL who live 20 mins away dont care if we go or not and DH actively dislikes going so we dont bother.

Really depends. Dh works some weekends, and I freelance most Sundays depending what projects I have going on. Dh often takes DCs to in-laws when I’m rehearsing, which works well. I see my DPs less regularly due to distance, usually in the holidays. Often there are birthday parties or meeting up with friends at the weekends. We very rarely have an entire day where all of us are free, and we guard those jealously! On those days we’ll go to a NT place or into London to do something exciting. That probably happens every 6 weeks or so.

Today I went to the beach for 3 hours on my own, then had a nap, did the dishes, and worked for a few hours. Having a couple over for drinks after supper.
Tomorrow I am having a lazy morning doing laundry, then getting a couple of tattoos, then working for four hours
Barring the tatts, a pretty average weekend
Kids are grown, so my time is my own

I work all weekend but this is changing in two weeks time as I'm dropping Sundays as had enough now

Weekend mornings we do homework over breakfast, DH trains on Saturdays too. Lunchtime onwards we do whatever we fancy, usually out somewhere one day and home the other.

PILs do their own thing. It's rare to see them at the weekend except for particular occasions.

'As a couple' - nothing, usually, unless we've been invited to something together (someone's birthday party or something)
'As a family' - nothing usually (with the exception of the odd thing whole family might have been invited to such a a Grandparent's birthday, etc)

We are all very busy doing lots of different things, and we tend to 'tag team' quite a lot. Quite often one of the dc and one of the parents would be together as our hobbies cross over, or as we are supporting their activities.

Now (dc are teens and 20s) we only see GPs about every couple of months or so.

Work. 😩

Walk the dog (any of us), go for a swim (me), go for a bike ride (dh) play tennis (me), play cricket (ds2, dh) and do martial arts (ds1 and 2) watch a movie, cook a meal, clean and tidy, walk dog again

Never get round to seeing ILs , maybe 4 times a year (they are lovely, actually, but we all get restless from endless sitting around)

God no. See PiL maybe every 6weeks, similar with my parents. We don't have kids yet but tend to potter around museums, eat out, go to the cinema or fuel our growing kitchen appliance stash with TKMaxx finds

Today we went to Ikea then dh went for a run. We often see parents one day at the weekend but usually just an hour or so unless a meal or something like that is arranged. DH will usually do one run, sometimes 2. I have at least one lie in and try and do some sort of exercise at least once! Kids are now older and didn't/don't do organised activities anyway as it just didn't work for them or us! When they were younger they'd hang out with neighbours kids, either here or at neighbours houses. Now they arrange their own social lives but youngest often needs lifts places. We tidy up the weeks mess, do laundry and do the garden in the summer, I try and cook/orgamise a bit of food for the week ahead. We chill out on weekends and I hate having loads of busy weekends in a row.