To feel the pressure to do something really special every bank holiday?

[poshsinglemum]

Don't get me wrong- I do like bank holidays but I found them easier BEFORE having dd.

Now I must create a fun-packed day with limited funds, no car and no dh to help.

To be fair we did have a lovely time and went swimming and had a bar b q but I always feel the pressure to do something really special.

See Janice Turner's article in The Times on Saturday 'Have You Let Your Kids Take Over Your Life' - sorry don't know how to link. It might help you feel a bit better!

We just went to the park and out for lunch

I always think people are meeting up with mates , having family bbqs etc with loads of people

i find bank holidays are more of an inconvenience with 18 month old ds. playgroups aren't on. dh still goes to work part of the day. the library is closed, the swimming pool's busier than normal. yes, i am a bank holiday begrudger!

I think the best thing you can do for your children is not making every day fun-packed, particularly bank holidays . Think what an anti-climax being an adult will be, if being a child is such hyped-up fun.

good grief no - who wants to go out with all the rest of the UK? stay at home and chill with ice lollies

I tend to forget when bank holidays are, as my (800-year-old) workplace doesn't observe them. So I worked today.

I went to a friends, dc's played we chatted over coffee and walked to the shop for ice lollies. Pretty much what we'd do at a w/end. Doesn't help that I have a ear infection and feel like crap

We both teachers/assisstants so have all week off so actually tend to do little on BH anyway and will do a 'day out' during the week. That is a freebee such as beach/fort etc.

I really wanted to mspend it reading in the garden but dd isalmost two and won't allow me such luxuries.

do you have a large park, castle woods etc near you?? I use to feel I would be alone BH as many spending it with OH and Dc's. Turns out most people I know have OH that work so lots of other mums to meet up with for picnic and play.

I went to the council tip this morning then Tesco with DS , DH away on business . Kids went swimming this afternoon whilst I sat in peace and quiet.

We never do bank holidays here, for the simple reason that everybody else in the world seems to and everywhere you go is packed. Tbh, it doesn't seem much like a 'fun-packed day' from the sound of all the whinging.

So we stay at home and do other stuff. Catch up on work and have a day off later in the week when everyone else is back at work and school. Much nicer!

I spent the bank holiday at home with three chicken pox covered children, we tend to just let them play in the house or garden normally, sometimes the park.

We feel so busy during term times and stuff that actually, bank holidays are time for us to chill out completely. Yesterday, we did the morning kids movie at the cinema, and at the weekend, we just mooched around and did our usual stuff.

Our kids (4 on Friday! and 2.8) watch lots of telly on these holidays, which I don't like, but they ask for it, and seem to relish just being able to relax in front of it.

So, no pressure...just enjoy the time!

Move to Scotland - we don't do them...!!