What does your normal weekend look like?

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Just curious to see what other people do at the weekend! Sometimes I feel guilty if I have nothing planned , feel like I should be making the most of two days off work even if I just want to mooch around the house being lazy 🤣

I will: exercise/housework/party/chill etc

Mostly exercising, reading and eating. :)

Mooch!! 100% mooch!! My daughters dance so my life is chaotic and I would love the chance to relax and have down time - enjoy it and do what feels right to you.

Usually one day out, one day in. 'Out' can range from big train journey to just a local wander. When in we play games, watch crap telly, bit of gardening or ignore each other.

I love weekends

Lazy morning in pjs until 10 am. Small amount of housework. Maybe go out for lunch or a walk. Come back potter. Do some emails/light work from the sofa (self employed)
chill
dinner
bath the kids

Art class on Saturday mornings.
Bit of tidying up and a dog walk Saturday afternoon.
Exercise and a run.
Watch a film Saturday evening.

Sunday morning I’ll get up and cook DH’s breakfast (payback for the coffee and breakfast he brings me in bed on my work days).
Long dog walk.
Pottering in the garden.
I’ll usually cook something nice.

That’s if it’s a quiet ‘at home’ weekend.

Up and out by 8 Saturday to take son to football match , if not too far away we will then go on to watch West Ham or our local side , home for a crap dinner bed by 10 up for another match on Sunday minimum hours drive away every other week . Home to watch football , do the house work and get ready for Monday….

We don't get out much and barely socialise - life is just doggy paddling, trying to keep our heads above water!

Friday evening we collapse. Very basic dinner - eggs or pizza. Everyone does their own thing. I've often got admin to catch up on.

Saturday I get up at about 6 to get a load of housework done, then I work (2nd job) from 10 - 6. DH ferries the kids to sports matches and parties, and usually does the laundry, hoovering and mows the lawn. The teens sleep in. DD might meet friends. DS plays computer games.

Saturday evening is lovely - we all watch a movie or an episode of whatever we're all enjoying and have nice dinner. The lounge is clean and tidy. The teens still join in and I make the most of every minute because they'll be off doing their own thing soon enough. We have crisps and a glass of wine and all hang out. I love it.

Sunday morning I often see a friend / go for a walk. DH sometimes plays golf. DS usually has football. I try and fit in a supermarket shop.

Sunday afternoon is more kids sport.

Sunday evening we usually play a board game after dinner - then get ready for Monday and off to bed!

My weekends have become more relaxed as my DC got older (now teenagers, with DC1 in university and DC2 about to go too, only leaving DD at home).

Saturday:
Breakfast with friends
Farmers Market
Library to change my books
Leisurely lunch, usually read the papers (don't have time during the week)
Potter at home in the afternoon, maybe do some gardening
Might go out in the evening (for a meal or to the theatre), or might stay at home and watch TV with a glass of wine. Currently enjoying The State of Happiness.

Sunday:
Swim
Church
Cook a roast
An hour or so of housework
Relax with a book or watching TV or bake a cake with something interesting on the radio/a podcast.

I don't plan lots for the weekend because I value being able to relax. When the DC were younger it was wall to wall sports activities etc, so it's nice to have some time back to myself.

I love my pottery weekends. We tend to try for one day in, one day out. Like another poster out might be a grand adventure or a walk to the shops in town. Now that autumn in round the corner we will base Sundays more round lunch. Then it will be gentle housework with a glass of wine while listening to audiobooks.

I have two primary age kids and therefore have parties and the like to factor in. But they love nothing more than all hopping into our bed on a weekend morning and we just hang out for hours - we read, watch cartoons, drink coffee and blether. it is the best

Saturday morning early dog walk then DH takes the DDs swimming while I go to the gym. The DDs then have dance between them 10-2 - one of us does the dance run and one does the weekly shop. After that it's either friends parties (primary school) or family.

Sunday is generally pretty lazy, usually some gardening and baking, dog walk, maybe family or friends for lunch, bit of ironing

Friday night usually take DSD swimming then a dog walk followed by chill out with a movie etc.

Saturdays DSD has a hobby that takes up most of our morning, then in afternoon we’ll walk dog, go to see family, park, soft play, football match, whatever we feel like. If she’s with us Sat night we’ll play board games, watch TV, do craft, etc. On the other Saturdays (we do a variant of 50-50 over the fortnight) DH and I will go for a meal, see friends together or separately or just chill at home.

Sunday morning we take the dog someplace nice then it just depends, some weeks I like to catch up with friends for lunch or coffee or I might have some work to do, or just chill with a book. DH might go to the pub with his brother for footie scores or play his Xbox. Sunday night we get a takeaway and laze about.

We live in a small town where there isn't much going on so we go out most weekends - NT places , parks , swimming , big dog walks . I'm dreading Winter as will have to find more things to do indoors rather than spend the whole day outside .

Grand organisational plans, abject failure and wine. On repeat.
Add in vampiric teenagers who recoil in horror at the thought of leaving the house.

Saturday: work all day.
Sunday: work all morning, then a couple of pints at the pub and crash out on the sofa.

Friday night we usually make an effort to cook something a bit fancier than the usual weekday dinners. Sometimes our 7yo will stay up a bit later and we'll watch a film or a tv programme we all like together. Or me and my husband will put a show on Netflix or HBO Max.
Saturdays are a mixed bag. Sometimes we take our son to the park where he meets some of his school friends, or go out for breakfast, or go food shopping. Usually put a Marvel or Disney film on in the afternoon, or we play some board games with DS. Most Saturdays we get a takeaway, usually Indian, then put a film on.
Sunday I like to get up early and take the dog for a big walk, then get back and either make pancakes/waffles/eggs for breakfast. Some Sundays my husband will take our son out for a bike ride, or we'll all walk the dog together and stop at a bakery to grab coffee and pastries. Then we'll just chill around the house, watch TV, read, build Lego etc. I'll cook something like a roast or lasagna for dinner. We also always make sure both my and my DH get one lie in each at the weekend - the dog gets walked early in the morning (7 normally) usually as she gets noisy if we don't comply 😄 so it's easier for one of us just to get up and take her out rather than have her wake all of us up!
If we were still in the UK we'd probably be a lot more social, visiting friends/family, going out etc but we live abroad and have struggled to make good friends so far, so our weekends are very much about quality time together as a family.

Getting as much sleep as possible with DH home to help with the kids!
Lots of housework and making baby food for 6 month old this week.
We also see family most weekends (mil always 🙄) try to catch up with friends.
Usually a trip to the park and bike ride and in the summer I paddle board when I can.
DH works out in home gym every weekend.
Sometimes a job at home or some diy but less so with the children at the age they are.
We always used to try to cram too much in, I know try to leave things pretty open at least one of the days.
Movies, nice food, wine, sleep and spending some time together is the highlight for me!

Lie ins, breakfast in bed, bit of housework, walk the dog and just chill. We both work physical jobs all week and have no DC so we don't like to rush our weekends. Sometimes we'll go out for lunch or make a day of walking the dog, but generally weekends are nice and slow and lazy.

Saturday we have a big family breakfast together clean up and visit a shopping centre. Usually head to our local pub at about 3pm for food and a few drinks home by 7pm where we have a few more drinks and watch TV. Usually in bed by 10pm.

Sunday up early for DDs football match. Collect shopping after football. DH cooks a big roast and dessert. I get the uniforms,lunches ready for school. In bed by about 10pm.

The only real constant is Parkrun at 9.00 on a Saturday morning: we push ourselves to do it even if we’ve been out clubbing until 4am the previous night (and 99% of the time we manage it.) Typically we’ll have at least two meets with groups of friends over the weekend but they take different forms: today is hectic as we need to drop in to three birthday parties and a housewarming and tomorrow we’re having brunch with one set of friends and evening drinks with another. Other weekends it might just be long leisurely pub lunches. If the weather is nice we often try to get out of London and go for a drive with the car hood down and get the speed up as we never use the car otherwise.

Saturday: pancakes (normal and keto, so I can join in!), I spend an hour epilating, outdoor activity for the day, dinner, movie night.

Sunday: movie morning, meal planning for week, iron uniforms, outdoor activity for the day, roast dinner.

Most of the time I'm working on one or all of the weekend. On the odd occasion I get the weekend off invariably DH is working so I have to entertain myself usually house work, shopping or something else mundane.
On the very very rare weekend we're both off we're usually too tired to do much we go a walk/out for food catch up on tv. Shift life really is rubbish

Today park run and clean dc1s room as she's gone off to uni. Take dc3 to sport activity this afternoon and watch a film later

Tomorrow deal with food delivery, go for a walk.

Usually would go out fri or sat evening but fancied an easy weekend

I manage an indie pop band in my spare time, so if we have a gig I usually attend, to make sure they arrive ok, get loaded in, film the show for social media and make sure they get paid. These shows could be anywhere in the country. Otherwise it’s doing band work (booking shows/festivals/radio, writing press releases, dealing with contracts, looking after their social media).
Otherwise I often provide a taxi service to DH so he can have a beer at the football (he’s a season ticket holder). Shopping (clothes) or sleeping, cleaning animals (tortoise and hamster). Our only DD is away at university so if we have a spare weekend we may drive to visit her.