Reading everyone's posts, I am struck by how I always make the same mistake each weekend and think the dcs will somehow magically sort themselves out and do fun things without my intervention, and I will magically manage to get loads of stuff done or relax or whatever.
However, in the Real World, this is of course not true, they continue to hang off your leg for what seems like years one way or another.
We had an early start due to a Netball Match, which unfortunately dd could not play in, last moment, due to some hitch with Afflilation paperwork (whatever that was, I knew nothing about it till now) So she was disappointed and cross with me and team leader. Ds2 then had a screaming fit when I asked him to go to church (next thing on the list), Ds1 said he wanted to do his project by himself, which means for next two hours he will sit in his room achieving nothing and getting increasingly hysterical, and then come out and have a tantrum (aged 13 - this is depressing experience to try and and redraft a 13year old's written or not written work)
Dh is not surprisingly in a bad mood due to all these many moods around him and has gone into "getting things done" mode, which I suppose is something but creates a vaguely aggressive atmosphere. He has hung three pictures and the washing out, and clipped the holly hedge.
Cats are dashing round the garden between showers. Toffee we lost our first cat Fudge, he just didn't come home one night when he was two. We waited for him to come back for 6 months, but we never found what happened to him 
Heartbreak and pet ownership seems to be inseparable. I remember my mum taking our beloved cat Tigerlily to the vet and never coming back with her, and us both being in floods of tears afterwards, remembering her little face on her cat basket. keep him close for now and enjoy every moment but it is so upsetting to see them struggle.
Trazzle tidy houses do make us feel better, but only if they are achievable. Sometimes you just have to think, I can't achieve that today, but I can achieve this/have achieved this/will achieve this. I think frustration is one of the things that knots you up and makes thing worse.
Push Ds1 went through that stage! It is exhausting.
I can't believe it, in the time it has taken to write this post, Ds1 has written copied out a page on Africa from the DK Encylopaedia. It mostly seemed to be about football, but at least he did it himself 
Dh has given in to Ds2 demands for attention and is playing our version of Badminton (rope strung between two overgrown shrubs).