To Not believe those articles where well known people describe their typical weekend

[Summerbreezing]

It always seems to revolve around family cycles in the country, early morning walks on the beach, brunch in cool cafes, and roast dinners shared with large extended families including Great Granny aged 89 and newest addition aged 3 months.

None of them ever ever seem to spend Saturday catching up on washing and grocery shopping; or hoovering around the feet of DHs and DSs sprawled on the sofa watching car racing;or dropping one child to swimming, before collecting another child from soccer, before dropping third child to birthday party. Neither to they spend Sundays reading the papers until 3 o'clock, then feeling guilty about 'wasting' the day and dragging moaning children out for a reluctant walk before lazily phoning the Chinese for dinner because it's half past six and they still haven't ironed any school shirts for next week and teenager still has to be nagged about finishing homework.

So AIBU to secretly believe all these well known people are liars and just inventing the perfect weekend to make us all jealous?

"After a hectic working week, the weekends are all about unwinding. I like to lie in bed at 7am pretending I can't hear the potty scraping across the bathroom floor, hoping against hope that this will force dp to get up when dd2 bellows "Mummy, Daddy, wipe my bottom!" It's an absolutely charming age and we are loving every minute. My favourite time with my girls is breakfast - we are always in such a hurry during the week that we don't have time to savour all the precious twists and turns of our darlings implacably demanding several foods in turn, and then rejecting them when they are irrevocably cooked / have milk added. I love it especially when dd2 demands that I cut up her toast, and then screams that it is too small!"

Badgers

Saturday mornings I wake to the sound of DH farting the seagulls and the seaside, it's heavenly. After a breakfast of organic porridge ok that part is true but it's more like 3 bowls we go for a leisurely walk to the farmers market ASDA, whilst arguing where we pick up a free range pheasant sausages and wine, whilst arguing that I toss into the oven nonchalantly drunkenly while the baby shouts and poops coos delicately on her playmat as DH and I intelligently discuss critical theory and sausages the latest art-house film we've seen episode of Vikings.

Who does exactly the same thing every weekend anyway? I bet their kids read those articles and go "Daaad. You're never even up at 11 o'clock on Saturday mornings, and you don't even own a pair of running shoes"

This thread is brilliant bet slender chasten don't spend Saturday playing minecraft

I mean celeb children

Well, we stay up late on Friday night watching Doctor Who episodes whilst eating junk food. Then we sleep late on a Saturday, and spend the day in our Jammies watching Adventure Time and Gumball, with a touch of My Little Pony for me and the girl child. We have a picnic carpet lunch and takeaway pizza for dinner. Then sometimes we camp out, in the living room, watching films until we fall asleep. On Sunday, we generally do not very much, usually playing in our rooms at Minecraft/bingo/barbies, then we have bath time in the evening before school returns.

Fanficking that sounds a brilliant weekend

I used to have perfect weekends spent horseback riding, barbecuing with extended family, brunching, visiting wineries, going to interesting museum exhibits, taking mini-breaks to visit friends in other parts of the country and going to the beach in the summertime.
Then I decided to move 3000 miles away from my family, friends and horse and get two postgraduate degrees back to back, and my weekends are mostly spent in the university library
I was unhappy with my job, and those great weekends weren't enough of a consolation. Hopefully these degrees will launch me on a career that I am passionate about.
Also OP, maybe you should cut down on your DC's activities if you find the logistics stressful.

I do enjoy our weekends. I mean we go out and do stuff too sometimes, but there's nothing better than a sleep over in your onsies watching all the cool programmes and eating what you fancy. My kids rule!

I know an extremely well known person in Wales and her weekends are just like the Op's post. Except she's generally nursing a hangover and ignoring her kids.

Ooh is that CC? She always seems like a pisshead woman who likes to sink a few.

You've got to read this one from smug Mariella Frostrup - tis a classic

Yeah, you can't trust momblogs, they're paid to create the perfect and creepy stepford wife version of their life. They're walking pinterest boards.

Mariella sounds like a right laugh to spend the weekend with doesn't she?

Vintagejazz, you should write more on Mumsnet. A truly funny post, real laugh out loud stuff, thank you.

We have errands/jobs on a Saturday (swimming, haircuts, homework) but on Saturday night I cook a meal from a country the kids take it in turns to choose (fussy eater strategy I highly recommend), we have a roast (or BBQ) every Sunday lunch and Sunday evening we play board games. Sunny days we spend in the garden, rainy days we watch movies. I thought we were fairly normal.

LOL at "children only spend time staring at a screen if parents let them". I'm a gamer, I love that me and the kids can all play games together, like Minecraft. I've raised them to love reading, gaming, Doctor Who, comic book heroes, funny cartoons, art and I am working on getting them to love Pokemon, because my sister is sad that she can't chat pokemon with them. I'm glad that my kids have grown up to like the stuff I do, makes us closer.

I also love disappearing into the woods and building dens, finding wildlife and flowers and cool stuff, we do that too, we're not complete indoors only at weekends, but we have wicked times together that make me feel like a kid again, so I'm happy.

The fridge-shot is my favourite of MTV's Cribs. Sleb opens fridge, which is arranged in absolute pristine formal order. Sleb looks confused, clearly doesn't recognise anything in the fridge. Sleb closes fridge and looks shifty.

I'd like to be a celebrity fridge arranger. I'd decant everything into teeny, stackable pots which look beautiful and calming and I wouldn't label them.

Ugh, that article by Mariella. And how patronising the way she talks about how single people must feel on a Sunday night.
Her poor kids - "You will have a nice, old fashioned childhood. You will, whether you like it or not .

Mrs Sting's weekend is another classic!

Oh god wiseman a I couldn't even finish that !
Makes weekends at the autumn family council flat look very feeble ! I might add however dp does have four types of vegetable on his Friday kebab

tbh I was surprised Mariella has kids so young, I thought they were her GC as she's the same age as me!

Feature Writer: So, do you like going for walks, swims, stuff like that at the weekend?

Celeb: Mmmm. No, Can't say we do. If we've met some mates in the pub we sometimes take a short cut back through that foresty bit of the park. That's about as close to nature as we get ha, ha.

Feature Writer: I bet you have lots of famous friends who like to come and visit?

Celeb: Nah, not really. Paul Merton did drop in last Saturday to use the loo when he was opening that new supermarket.

Feature Writer: And what about Sunday dinner? Nice roast with all the family?

Celeb: God no. We usually just grab something while we're in the pub, we're both crap cooks.And then we just make a sandwich if we get hungry later on watching telly.

Article:
We work hard all week so Saturdays are an opportunity to unwind and catch up with friends. Celebrity mates like Paul Merton will often pop around for a drink and a chat.
On Sundays we usually meet up with a crowd of friends for a lovely long lunch, which we then walk off by going for a trek through a nearby forest. It blows off all the cobwebs and sets us up for the week ahead.
Sunday evenings are usually just the two of us, curled up on the couch with a glass of wine and a toasted sandwich. It's a lovely relaxing way to end a busy weekend.

I think the real point is in Celeb weekend Saturday and Sunday have more actual hours than TSS weekend. Can rich people buy extra hours for their day.

And btw this thread made me deep clean my fridge yesterday

I have to admit, once we got a cleaner who comes round for 4 hours on a Friday our weekends are a lot more free, we do have lots more time.
so add to that a housekeeper and secretary personal assistant to do all the other boring crap and just imagine how long your weekends would be.

And if you were going to tell the whole of the UK your weekend with photos you would also cherry pick the details. Well i know I would.
Take the best bit of every weekend in the last 2 months a glue it together, just like a 2 year olds collage :)