I hate Sundays! Need structure

[DragonWasp]

I really need structure in my life to be motivated. I hate Sundays my older daughter has gym lessons mid day on a Sunday that my STBX, her dad takes her to. They normally make a day of it. Which is nice for them to have one to one time together.

So I'm left with my lively 2 year old to entertain. We don't have any family here. I've got a few friends but they all do family stuff on a Sunday. I haven't found any clubs or classes I could take her to. I just can't muster up the motivation to take her somewhere without the deadline of a meet up time or a class start time so I end up staying in which is always boring, annoying and ends up with me letting her watch too much TV and then I have mum guilt.

I don't know how to change this.

What should I do?
What do you do?
Any suggestions?

I'm on here for the same reason.just changed jobs and I find Sundays so dull

Would it help to buy a season pass for something like the zoo, or block book swimming or similar. If you’re motivated to get value out of something like that it might get you out and about.

I find that (this is probably because I’m boring and middle aged) I have a predictable pattern to my energy. So on a weekend I lounge around in the morning but around two or so I’ll get a bit antsy and frustrated that I’m wasting the day. That’s actually the sweet spot for going out. But I find that I need to have planned for it or my fragile weekend energy will fizzle in decision fatigue/searching for kit/herding dc towards the car.

Maybe you could book something for next weekend now, then pack a bag for it and set an alarm on your phone . Use your fed up energy to do that, but defer the actual carry-through to your future self.

What should you do?

Start by stopping feeling guilty for letting her watch TV.

It's ok to have down time and slobbing about one day a week.