Immediate thoughts on this weekend

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Went to work until lunchtime (private tutor)
Got baguettes, cheese and fruit from the shop on way home for myself, Dd,4 and Dh. Had lunch, I lay down on sofa watching Gogglebox and on phone, Dh took Dd two doors down to her friends house to play on the trampoline for a couple of hours. They will then go to get takeaway pizza later we’ll watch a film, then bed for Dd
Tomorrow, we’re driving around 30 minutes away to a waterfall, then to a little beach resort (we’re abroad) where they have a nice playground, we’ll have lunch there then take a boat over to a small beach island just across the way from there.
Will come back, walk our dog in the forest/beach and Dd will have a bath and get school things ready for tomorrow. I’ll take Dd to bed and do stories etc.

Immediate thoughts/response to this weekend?

It may be boring for her, but everyone has different tastes. You don't find it boring so it's not boring for you.

Your 'friend' sounds like an arse

Sounds like a good quality of life for everyone involved. Some work and play and not too much domesticity for anyone. I look back on those low-key days out spent with my parents when I was a child — beach, walk, boat trip and home for tea and bed — with great affection.

It's great to be the kind of person who can find contentment in the ordinary and everyday. Is your friend someone who spends her life seeking thrills and trying to keep up with the Joneses? Is it all parties and boozing and weekends away? I think most people get to around the age of 40 and feel they've had enough of that.

Plenty of time for you to do more and live a faster life when your daughter has flown the nest. Meanwhile you and your partner are modelling how to be content without the need to spend masses of money shopping and consuming, and that will serve her well.

Well I think it sounds really cool.relaxing and fun ! Maybe your friend has different ideas , but to me it sounds ace!

Sounds like a lovely family weekend and how I spend most of mine since meeting DH and DSD and I love it! Who wants to go out drinking like a teenager every week? To each their own but I’d rather have your life than your friends.

Not drinking much is not boring, particularly when you have a child. I wonder how much fun and attention her child gets. It sounds to me as though she's unhappy with her own life.

Sounds lovely OP. x

You can always somehow plan cocktails with someone for yourself at some point if that's what you really want. People's interests change/vary and that's ok.

How many parents of young children go out for afternoon cocktails? I mean it's fine, but she's the unusual one, not you.

Your weekend sounds fine to me. She’s entitled to prefer something different but is her DC getting enough attention? Does he/she always have what’s needed for school and clean uniform? Is her house reasonably clean? Is she
on top of work commitments?
To me, those things are a sign of maturity and responsibility and especially when you have DC.

Are you bored?

If not, then it's not boring!

Sounds wonderful to me.

Sounds lovely OP and very normal when you have a little one of that age.

I'm surprised your friend thought it sounded a boring weekend. If anything I thought you had maybe packed a little too much in and it maybe a bit tiring! A nice mix of activities though .

Sounds lovely. What does your friend think you should be doing? Clubbing?

Well your weekend trump's mine as I'm painting my fence and windowsills. Oh and a bit of weeding just to spice things up!

So your spending a weekend with your family and she's dumped her kid on someone so she can go out and get pissed and then will be to hungover to do anything nice with her kid tomorrow. She's not exactly living a great life is she, her poor kid if this is her idea of a great weekend. The irony is when the kids are back at school on Monday talking about their weekends your friends kids weekend is going to sound boring in comparison to your kids.

I’m 30 with a 5yo, sounds like a lovely normal weekend to me! Tomorrow we’re going to church, swimming and then McDonald’s- so if you’re boring I definitely am too!

This. A good friend would have said “sounds fab, enjoy” or words to the effect.

Sounds fine to me and more interesting than most of my weekends. Could it be a cultural difference, as you mention being in another country? Is your friend British?

I am 37 and like nothing more than my bed, a book and a hot chocolate. God knows what she would make of me.
She sounds a bit of an idiot to be honest. We all like different things. I know a couple almost 20 years older than me who are out every weekend travelling and going to music events. I can't think of anything worse.
Many people don't have the spare cash at the moment to be out all of the time either. So she's being insensitive too.

About visiting a waterfall and a beach, a boat to another beach, a walk in the forest...

That's my Holiday Best Life, for goodness sake.

Not much like my weekend of "weeded the garden until it started to rain , did 3 loads of washing, repaired the broken light in the garage, got the groceries, made dinner, sewed a button back on my blouse, checked youngest had what she needs for her homework, rang my dad, cleaned the living room."

Sounds lovely! Driving to a waterfall and visiting an island sounds like a treat, and your weekend sounds fun and relaxing, for both adults and children. The only U thing that you're doing is to pay any attention to what your friend is saying. She sounds either very narrow-minded or jealous, or at least is in a foul mood and trying to bring other people down with her.

Sounds like a lovely weekend. Your friend is rude!

@JulieHoney Yes, I do all that stuff, pretty much constantly! It’s Sunday tomorrow, we’re finally not working and it was our idea of a treat day out…that’s why I was surprised when she said it was boring etc..we don’t generally do that on a regular basis but arranged it to do something different and nice and it was seen as boring 🙈🤷🏻‍♀️

Sounds lovely, and I'm late 40s and do spend my child free weekends going to raves often. But that doesn't mean I can't enjoy the sofa or a waterfall