What do you all get up to on a Sunday (as a family)?

[Rainbowsandrascals]

I find Sundays quite tedious at times. We have a 12 yr old dd and I’m finding the typical family things no longer interest her or we have done them (museums, parks, open days etc). Any good suggestions?

We joined the gym. Our kids are younger than yours but we have a family membership and there is stuff for all
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My DDs are much younger than yours but today we have been playing in garden/house, to an indoor water park with BILs and SILs plus DNs and then we all went out for dinner at Italian. Home now and girls have been bathed and are ready for bed. We try to do different things at weekends to the week (I don’t work) but it can be difficult to think of fresh things at times so I feel your pain!

Mostly not very much / visit family cook a roast. Or go to the cinema or NT property or local car boot.

Same as every other day. I'm at home with ds and dh is at work

Usually chores!
We do try to get out even if it’s for a walk in the park. They normally play football on a Sunday but the season has finished now so we love the lie ins we get.
We’ve always done something outdoors in a Sunday so dcs are used to it.

Hiking. Sailing. Cards. Played a Now Music Board game yesterday.

NT, the park, cinema, swimming, a random walk and then a coffee and cake, watch a film with a pizza, get the train to a nearby place to check it out, walk the canal, leave my kids to their own devices and read a book! Bake cookies, make something out of my sons big book of things to make, pub lunch, go into the city to the city park which has a boating lake and a miniature steam train which runs on sundays

Just Google your area for things to do. I did that and made a list of absolutely everything that sounded halfway interesting and every place that looked pretty.... and weve been living here nearly two years and theres still plenty on the list!!

Nothing & its by far our favourite day of the week!

I feel doing nothing just feels like a waste of a day off together. It seems harder as dd gets older as we’ve explored a lot of the usual stuff or a day out seems to be quite expensive. A gym is a good idea.

We don't tend to do anything special, but do tend to take the dog for a long walk.

During term time DS will usually spend a large part of the day doing homework.

I often go for a really long walk, either by myself or with a friend, before the others are up and about ( or are watching tv). I listen to podcasts and audio books and I then feel like I've at least done one thing for myself. We go for a family swim at the local pool, often for a long walk/ scoot/ cycle ride, go to the beach, drive to Central London or Cambridge and go to a museum/ event (there's loads of free stuff, free parking and we take a picnic), go to the climbing wall, see friends for a walk or play, have a barbecue with friends or neighbours, bake, do the garden, deal with piles of laundry, do homework/ music practice, it's the day I often cook a complicated meal ( I love cooking), get the microscope/ board games out. I love Sundays but we tend to be quite busy.

We used to do loads of things when the kids were little, but now they are 12+, we often just mooch around the house with everyone doing their own thing.

Went to a friend's allotment with 12-year-old DS and the dog. Pottered around weeding and laying paths while DS and friend's son went to the adjacent park for an adventure on their bikes for a couple of hours, wandered round the park with the dog, then home via the chippy.

Google, your Sundays sound great. I’m thinking we should venture out more - maybe plan some day tips to bigger cities.

We went on a bike ride and a walk to the pub.

Unless it's really awful weather we go somewhere. We get 1 Sunday a month when DD, DP DSD and I are together, so it's a walk, local museum, bike ride, cinema (at a push).Anything to get the 4 of us out of the house and talking to each other, haha. We usually offer chocolate / cake based bribes.
And then home for a roast dinner.

Mine do homework, odd jobs around the house and sports on a Sunday so Saturday is our free day. Mine are 13 and 15, we go to the cinema or bowling sometimes, also go for walks, NT properties, they still quite like doing Treasure Trails around other towns, drive to the beach (45 mins away), visit grandparents. We also go to sports events from time to time or the theatre.

Mine are 11 and 13 so I know what you mean about the day trips we used to do no longer being suitable. The kids went out with friends or stayed at home supposedly studying for end of year exams . We're still getting used to this new dynamic, as it seems like only yesterday our weekends were a blur of parties, classes and trips to the park. We've started to do things alone again which I have to say is great. We don't like to venture too far as they're still quite young, but today we went for a walk and a coffee. Just the two of us. We mostly talked about how we're going to buy a dog, whilst both adnitting we are well aware it's to fill the void left by younger children. . A normal weekend now is gardening, pottering, housework with the occasional suggestion for a family trip out met with rolled eyes from both children or negotiations with us so they get to see their friends. Definitley a good time to get some time back to yourselves.

Yes, that is a good point Toast, having some time to ourselves. I suppose it won’t be long before homework starts increasing so this is why I wanted to make the most of our free Sundays.

We walk the ddog.

Not unusual for me and ddog but on weekends dh likes to come so the walk includes a stop for bacon butties and delicious coffee. He bribes ds and dd with the thought of bacon butties to come with us.

Other than that, depending on if its drying weather I try to get a jump on the washing that they've brought home, reading the papers, cooking dinner then getting them all packed to leave for another week.

Mine still like a park so long as the play equipment isn't only for little children, we had a nice hour or so on Saturday in a town we were visiting with DH playing Pokémon Go, the DCs in a park and me mooching round the charity shops.

Yes, she does like cycling so a ride out and stopping off for a drink / food would please her. She loves crafting things and art but some activities/ classes get quite expensive. Thanks for your suggestions.

My son is nearly 16. So he tends to do his own thing now. I miss those days. But it is nice to be able to go out as a couple again.