What do you do on a typical Sunday with your children

[Shout]

I have 2 ds 9 and 4. I had to drag them out for lunch and played mini golf for an hour and this evening played a board game but apart from that the children have just been on the computer and watching TV.
Any other suggestions out there?

[Scramble]

Sometimes its a day out with Daddy, sometimes I go too (depends on my mood .

Sometimes we are out and about, never actually do much, saturdays are busy days for the kids, not so much sundays.

Past few sundays we have cleared out DD's room, laid a new lawn then dug over PIL new veg plot big fry for lunch too.

This sunday the kids have decided they want a winter picnic, so soup and sausages in the country park I think.

I am chilled about sundays we go with the flow, I normally work Saturdays.

[PurpleOne]

Ahhh powercuts!

When the lights go out (or mummy trips the switch on the fuse board) light a candle and play 'finger shadows' on the wall. Can make up a story and animals as you go along

[PurpleOne]

Ahhh powercuts!

When the lights go out (or mummy trips the switch on the fuse board) light a candle and play 'finger shadows' on the wall. Can make up a story and animals as you go along

[lostdad]

I am allowed to see my son for a few hours on Sunday.

[wolveschick]

at mention of powercut-my DDs age 5 and 2 love playing powercuts. Just turn all the lights off, draw the curtains and hand one of them a torch. I just forgot to mention this to DH who burst in from work one night to find us all huddled up under a throw with candles lit.

[Shout]

Thanks all for your input. I am going to try out all the suggestions. We had a powercut for half an hour so they had to do with out TV so might use that excuse too in the future.

[PurpleOne]

For us,it's pjs until lunchtime and a nice cooked breakfast.

If the weathers fine, may go for a walk around the country park, or even just down the local rec for an hour.
Pack picnics, blackberry and apple picking, feed the ducks. Maybe even a trip up to London / museums / evening stroll along the Thames. Roll on the summer!

If it's raining, we hibernate. Dvds, pc, housework etc etc and cook a nice roast dinner. Homework, school uniforms...the usual bumpf.

[ScruffyTeddy]

Gawd sorry I killed it, carry on ladies....

[Countingthegreyhairs]

[ScruffyTeddy]

anyone who has sex is smug, so there

[Dottydot]

I'm kind of a lone parent on Sundays 'cos dp works 9am - 6pm every Sunday. I've got 2 ds's, 6 and 3 and this is what we do:

summer picnics at fab park in Wigan (haigh hall). It's cheap, brilliant for kite flying and has got 2 train rides in it - perfect. Went there on lots of Sundays through the summer.

There's national Trust places but they can be pricey if you stay for lunch.

Or when the weather's bobbins we go to various museums - most are free and ds's love them. Or indoor play centre every now and then!

[Countingthegreyhairs]

you are not assuming that us smug-marrieds have sex are you?

[allgonebellyup]

i have no idea, apart from some foggy memory of bouncing around on a mattress whilst actually wanting to be asleep??

[ScruffyTeddy]

what's sex?!!

[allgonebellyup]

yes but i never ever get sex.

So there is a downside ya know..

[Countingthegreyhairs]

Scruffy

[ScruffyTeddy]

to you and your smugness

[Countingthegreyhairs]

sorry - I didn't see it was in lone parents thread either

some activities still apply as dh travels alot (not the same thing at all though I realise).

[allgonebellyup]

ha ha

i dont have to do anything with my children all weekend as they go to their dads' and the time is all mine!!!

[smug emoticon]

[Anchovy]

Sorry - didn't realise this was on the lone parents thread - thought it was just a general "what do you do on Sunday's" convo.

[Anchovy]

1. The children usually make a den of some sort in one of their bedrooms, involving duvets/slide out underbeds etc. This keeps them quiet(ish) until about 8am. Known as "making a bombsite".

1. DS always does a fancy breakfast: this week he made banana, poppyseed and stem ginger muffins. I went for a run while they had breakfast (it is a pig of a thing to do but you feel so brilliant when you have done it).

1. DS has football classes on Sunday mornings (10.30am). Dh has the pleasure of standing on a touchline of a muddly field watching an enthusiastic but somewhat ineffective DS playing football. DD and I do something nice together (yesterday we did some scootering and stopped off for a coffee; week before swimming; week before made home made jammy dodgers.

1. After lunch both DCs have "quiet time". DD was up in her room, DS watch something on national geographic channel (new hot fave).

1. PM - DD had a party. DS was in the garden with DH doing some pruning with the secateurs (I did not know about this!). They took the pedals and stabilisers off DS's bike and went up and down the path and then for a spin round the block.

1. We always eat together on a Sunday at about 6pm.

1. Evening prep for week. I did about 3 hours work.

There was definitely some tv interspersed with all this, but I think they did enough other things.

[nutcracker]

Scruffyteddy you are not the only one. I rarely do anything with mine either.

Swimming on a sunday would be ideal for us but the but it costs me £6 in bus fare to get them all there and back so can't often afford it.

[needmorecoffee]

if I didn't clean during respite care then all the little coffees would vanish under a tidal wave of mess.
dd is 24 hour care and my house is a tip so I try and make the kitchen floor unsticky and do 57 milion loads of washing and drape it all over radiators and find the sink.
Not really how I'd like my sundays but one day dd will go to school and I'll be free free free
Oh, don't do it cheerfully either. Usually saying 'who's arsing mess is this? Why haven't you brought your flipping uniforms down yet?' and other joys of family communication

[ScruffyTeddy]

Im rather ashamed to say I dont do anything with them . Sunday is the only day I get to give the house a really good clean, am normally cooking the dinner at the same time.

That sounds really awful!

[seeker]

i think the only way to keep them away from the computer/tv is to say "Please don't turn on the computer/tv"