I have got into a pattern recently as my kids have got older ( 11 and 13) where I do the mimimum at the weekend once the food shop is done and the kitchen is straight, I just literally want to lie down and read and watch films documentaries/listen to podcasts.
I always take the kids swimming ( that takes about 90 minutes) on one day and I walk for about 45 minutes with a couple of local friends( get a small bit of socialising in that way) to start each day to get a small but of exercise in but that is it.
Anyway almost 50 and all I can say is this strange lethargy has hit me where my desire to get out and visit galleries or whatever I used to do has just not there. I do have it in the holidays when not working. I am a teacher so I am really tired and just feel like I am recovering and crawling to the break but I just feel guilty for not doing more than the minimum, attacking a pile in the house, that kind of thing but my friend suggested lots of people weekend like this. I offered to do a board game with my daughter and she was not bothered quite happy doing her thing.
I feel like it is bad to be so restful at the weekend somehow and yet I also just crave this very way of being at the weekend and wish I could just enjoy doing it as it is exactly what I want to do. As a kid I was expected to be very active- we were not allowed to really sit down at the weekend so it must be left over from that, probably why I ensure the walking and the swimming even though it only takes up a few hours of a 48 hour weekend.
Do other people have lazy weekends often like this? I get these waves of guilt I should be pushing myself to break through the weird lethargy to do more on a weekend that the bare minimum to be ready for another week of work.