How do you spend your lockdown weekends?

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I’m working from home during the week so when it comes to the weekend it feels a bit same old just without work! What’s everyone doing on their weekends at the moment to mix it up as best you can?

Visit local market for meat and veg, takeaway coffee, housework, walk and film on Saturday.

More housework/washing on Sunday with a walk with a friend, roast dinner late afternoon and another film.

Weekends start on Friday evening so as I'm in comfies all week (DH and I WFH) I wash and blow dry my hair and put on a sweater dress and tights as I really miss dressing up to go out for dinner or out with friends. I cook something nice, light some candles, put some music on and we sit down to dinner and then watch a movie. Sometimes we decide to have a party for two and have a kitchen disco

Saturdays we get up early and look up a new walk to try with the dogs, we go on a long walk, come home and have brunch and get the fire lit and then we relax, read, play chess, I might practice the violin (luckily for DH and the dogs it's silent model as I'm not very good ),then I'll cook something, homemade burgers tonight and have a few glasses of nice red. Sundays are very similar to Saturdays apart from we have a lie in and I cook a roast and less red wine!

Despite every weekend being pretty much the same, I actually really look forward to them and they still feel like a proper break from the stresses of the working week.

My weekends, every weekend, consist of

Yoga
Video chat with DM
Laundry
Clean bathroom
Bake
Sometimes a walk -it’s snowing too hard today.
Eating far too much
Netflix

I usually stay in bed until around 10am now, just reading, on my phone it chatting to DP.

Slowly get ready because there's f all to hurry for! Then walk into town for a takeaway hot chocolate. Do a bit of baking, food shopping, tidying.

Bike rides, walks, (anything to get kids moving) takeaway, movie

My day started at 6.30am with 3 year old and he was then joined by his brothers. Made a
big breakfast, dressed everyone, we've been out cycling, made a big lunch , need to do a piles of laundry, tidy , clean, check some work emails then out again to go for a walk or run w with kids, then more cooking, baths , bedtimes ...
Then two hours to have a bath and read and sleep hopefully...

We move house next week so we are currently madly packing-the state of the house is unbelievable 😩 dh is doing the big jobs and actual packing and I’m keeping the house ticking over making sure we actually have food to eat/clean clothes to wear etc for the next few days. It’s hellish!

Long dog walk, coffee, baking, reading, crochet, washing, ironing, cooking, screen time. And repeat.

@gasgig

Is it bad that I think I would enjoy lockdown a lot pmore if I didn't have kids or they were older?

Me too - I have a 2.5 year old, I'm 37 weeks pregnant and I'm reading all these posts about long luxurious weekends spent doing what the adults want to do in the same way as I used to read about people who owned their own private tropical island - some envy, some escapism in reading it but resigned to the fact it's an unreachable fantasy!

Watching Netflix
Rearranging my flat
Cleaning stuff
Cooking
Reading
Cleaning again
Walking around my flat with a sigh of contentment because it's so clean and tidy
Making my dog a canine burrito with a blanket
Sharing pictures of the canine burrito
Cleaning again
Taking some classes on Skillshare

Honestly I'm never bored.
It's canine burrito time now!

Today - dog walk, made flapjacks, chores, food shop, lunch. Park for the kids, go home, kids bath then movie, make fancy curry, zoom with mates.
Tomorrow- dog walk and bike ride on the agenda, will need to do more chores, dh diy, movie again for kids.

Not that different to normal!

Feel very slovenly compared to everyone so going to hold onto the fact that I have been spent most of the day incubating a baby. 10 weeks to go until I feel like doing much at all :)

I work long hours all week so on the rare occasion I get a full day off, it's movies and snuggles with the family under the heated blanket. Pre-chronic pain we would be out walking miles at the weekend with the family but I have to rest at weekends now

Lie in, have a great breakfast if I can be bothered. Tidy up, pretend I'll put clothes away but close the dressing room door. Do some washing, shower, dinner when DH gets home. Food shopping in the evening. Sunday is long run & nap day

Chores. Homeschooling (our son goes to a friends on fridays, so misses his homeschooling on a Friday) , long walks in the woods, playing with our son (he’s 5 and likes us to play with him all the time). Watching movies, reading books and playing monopoly

Im sorting out a life time of photos and putting into albums and labelling them all

Oh and I had to work a few hours this morning as work is mega busy

Me, husband and 2 young primary aged children.
We relax in pyjamas than we can in the week, have different breakfast than in the week, long walk, takeaway for tea, family film. I try and plan an activity that makes the weekend more special e.g. making an afternoon tea, bought art and craft kits, play lots of board games, get out toys not played with for a while.
Most importantly, with both of us working and doing home learning, we make time for each other, reading whilst children are watching their programme, choosing a new box set to watch together, sorting something out in the house that make life a bit nicer the rest of the time 😊

Walk with DS (3.5) and DH, playground, play with stomp rockets or similar.

Baking rainbow biscuits (DS' current fave, absolute PITA to make).

Supermarket shop (highlight of the week ).

Visiting local farm shop to buy extortionate but high quality ingredients for a delicious meal (tonight's was venison steak, roasted new potatoes, crispy kale and purple slaw).

Looking longingly at the vino and remembering I'm off the booze for 3 months to lose the stone I've gained

Films, reading, gardening. DIY.

Coffee in bed till 8:30 (up at 6 in the week). Sling some washing on, breakfast, clean kitchen and bathrooms. Make soup for lunch, walk with DS, zoom call with family. DH making dinner then Netflix (on dry January). Long run followed by long bath tommorow. More washing, baking, roast for dinner. More Netflix

I’m completely on my own, and have started to dread weekends, as the routine/social interaction of work has been keeping me going. I think I’m a bit depressed with the situation. I work in the office a couple of days a week, and do look forward to those days, as I wash my hair/put something smarter on, etc

My bubble friend is about 50 miles away, so we see each other one day at the weekend usually, and often stay after work on a Friday night/cook something together/watch a movie , and then go for a walk on a Saturday.
I miss being able to hang out with others, have dinner/lunch/drinks with the girls; miss my siblings, and a noisy game of trivial pursuit with their families; I miss my parents dreadfully - I would love to hug my mum for the first time in almost a year; I want to actually go to my evening class; I want to go to the theatre/cinema/rugby/swimming. I just want some kind of normality.
I know we’ve all got things we’re finding tough - I’m not special or different - but weekends are possibly tougher than the week, right now.

We are up earlyish to ride out horses, have more time than during the week so might hack 8-10km home and exercise is yard work before lunch and a relax or dig walk in the afternoon.

Cheesy family tv with takeaway Saturday evening and pretty much same again on Sunday.

Not a whole pile different to pre lockdown just without friends playing alongside sadly

I've been sewing, today. Can only manage short bursts, through the week, when dh is working and I can't tag team with Ds2 with him.

DH has taken Ds2 for a walk, removed soggy plasterboard from behind the dishwasher that died, earlier this week and has been researching replacements from the scant selection that is available, at the moment.

Working.

It's generally a rotation of: walk with DD, standing in a freezing cold playground whilst DD plays, accompanying DD on bike or scooter ride (on foot).

Films, baking, games, reading with DD.

That said if there’s an upside it’s that I tend to get more done at home because I am not visiting/doing things. I would be lying if I said I preferred it though

This should be the case for me, but I can't be arsed. I feel motivated by having lots on and am more productive when I'm already busy. I currently havei little motivation and am loving on a state of ennui.