What do you all do at weekends?

[BrokenLampShade]

Just following up from another thread where I’ve said how soul destroying I find weekends I know I need to make some changes, but what do you actually do?

I can’t look at another bloody park, I find all other families are busy being families, going out for lunch is more stress than it’s worth, so what do you all do?
And please don’t say walks, walking is a mode of transport not an activity 🙈

As little as possible is the short answer. We go to the park, play outside, potter about the house, church on Sunday and I maybe cook it n on Saturday.

DD was swimming yesterday morning, and then we had a few errands to run and the food shop.

Didn't do a great deal yesterday afternoon apart from play a few games.

Today we've been sorting out her playroom, and cleaning.

In an ideal world, we'd have done something interesting but it doesn't do her any harm to understand that we can't always do something exciting on the weekend - in fact she is quite happy learning how to do jobs (because she's earning points towards something she wants to do!)

We have a 3yo, 13yo and newborn.

We tend to do food shopping on a Saturday morning. (We live in Germany and shops are closed on Sunday). The youngest two come, the eldest stays home. Sometimes we bring fast food home on the way back. In the afternoon we will do a mix of tidying up/cleaning or going for a walk and one or other of the adults might have a nap.

Sunday is more of our day to go out and do stuff if we want to although it may also be a day to stay at home and clean the house :o

Kinds of things we have done:
Local animal park
Christmas events
Nearby-ish historical castle thing
Soft play (bring 13yo, they love that stuff :o)
Brunch with friends at a buffet place
Science museum with interactive thingies
Adventure play area in forest

Single parent and working full time with a longish commute. DC (10) has long days at school with wrap around care so Sat am is always down time. Long lie and chill out while I do housework. Sometimes a meet up with her friends in the afternoon, fun tea and strictly or a movie. Sunday am, food shop. A walk or visit family in the afternoon, homework and bed! Very predictable and oddly relaxing!

But yes as above we wouldn't do one of those "big" things every weekend. More often it's just a wander around the local park/woods. DS2 absolutely needs some fresh air and outdoor exercise daily or he goes nuts.

I strip beds at the weekend and get them freshly washed for the week ahead. Give the house a good clean & organise the week ahead. Also take toddler DC out for a long walk. In amongst that I do the foodshop and meal prep. I sound so boring 😂 but i work shifts so on my weekends off (every other weekend) so much needs done!

I am ,79, and live alone, and my weekends or any day really, are spent doing diy and garden things, or stuff in my shed. i dont like sitting around doing nothing, don't watch much tv.. I wouldnt dream of traipsing around shops, or drive to places of interest anymore, but used to do it years ago. i like a bit of quiet time at times, as I like writing, and make some attempts at times, to write short stories..

I woke up with a slight headache as DS mixed cocktails for us all last night :)

However when he was small we had quite similar weekends.
Saturday Watch DS play football in the morning, then out for lunch, back for tv, board games, video games, some chores.

Sunday bike ride or a walk round woods and fields that are close by, often saw my mate very early morning for dog walk and a coffee. More chores.

Our children are 16 and 12, though apart from the walking we have always had weekends like this:

We go on day trips - either big trips into London or other cities, or smaller days out to local towns, and we usually try to find a museum or similar to visit as part of that, or have a theatre or cinema trip.

We also walk (sorry!) and as we live near a long distance footpath we're trying to do the whole thing in sections which makes it a great family project, and challenges us to do walks we wouldn't otherwise get motivated to do.

We go to church and sing in the choir which takes up a lot of Sunday morning, and I have Sunday lunch on the oven timer ready for our return. The kids both have musical instruments to practise and play for fun, and there is always some bit of homework to be done (we are a bit sad and all like to get involved explaining things and helping with homework).

In the summer I work on the garden a lot, and when lockdown was on and church wasn't running we did yoga and lots of baking, and had family board games and film night. Not so much time now.

If there's any time left, cleaning and washing get done, otherwise I do them in the week - or the house stays dirty. Shopping is almost all online as I hate it taking up my precious weekend time.