Mothers....How do you spend your 'YOU' time? if any!!

[Littleraysofsunshine]

would love to hear your stories

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If I could book the boys,dh, two cats and dog out of the house for 24 hours.
If it was clean and tidy so I could relax.
If there were no errands to run, people to see, shopping to do.
If no one was waiting for me to do something for them......

I would.....
Go shopping on my own and treat my self to a nice outfit. Sit and read the paper in a coffee shop. Get home. Hot bubbly bath with candles and wine. Mani and pedi my nails in front of the tv. Wine and Chinese take out.

I would retreat into my bedroom with snacks, drink, a good book and laptop.

And sleep as much as humanly possible

I would curl up with a book, go for walks in the park, potter round flea markets, stay in bed all morning, have long lunches with friends and have daily massages/hair appointments.

None of this happens more than once in a blue moon in real life, and I often feel like Cinderella so...

Once a year my mum takes me away for a week so that she can have company (her partner won't travel) and I get a break from being mum/wife.
This time next week I will be laying by a pool in the sunshine with my book

I do two hours of sport a week - one mid week and one on the weekend, which is MY time without exception.

If the children are out only chocolate and a good book will do!

I try to go swimming with my sister in the evening after boys are in bed as often as possible but in reality this means less than once a month . Other than that I tend to go on my lap top, spend faaaar too much time on here!

If I had a whole day to myself I would have a morning with my friend in a coffee shop, have a wander round the shops together. Go home and have a quiet afternoon alone, perhaps catch up with some TV, have a hot bath and in the evning have a chinese takeaway and a drink in the evening by which point I would be bored and missing the boys and DH lol.

I work part time at weekends and 1 evening a week, I do consider that my time because I enjoy my job that much, even though we can't afford for me not to work. Once she's in bed, and if I'm not doing chores, I waste spend my time playing 2 fb games until my lives run out as that's about all I have energy for. Oh and hairdresser once every 6 weeks.

I stay up until 2 or 3 am to give myself the time I need. In this time I read, books, articles, mumsnet and I make either a very late dinner or early brekkie for myself. I have four children, so time alone is very precious to me. I sleep on the weekends when my older two go to their dads, and my youngest have their daddy time...

Sleep sleep sleep
Sleep sleep...

I make this thing that is made by melting butter in a pan and then adding lots of brown sugar and oats and sort of caramelizing it all. And then I eat it in front of swoony TV like North and South or Pride and Prejudice. :)

Or I take looonng baths with wine and books.

Or I heat up a blanket in the dryer and eat a stack of toast and read in my warm snuggly blanket. (In the wintertime.)

I'm really good at me time. :o

Oh yank . No wonder you are cheerful...

I feel like name changing to 'whingingbrit'. We need your oatycaramelly recipe on here. Don't forget to add 'snuggly blanket' to the ingredients list!

I go to boot camp.

It sounds far less satisfying.

I get two hours "time off for good behaviour" on a Sunday. I go to the local library and I've been writing a novel. It saves my sanity - I really, really feel it when dh is out of town.

I'm guessing my children are older than most who have posted here because I think that my free time is now about the same as pre children. The only difference is that phone calls are rarely for me and I'm lucky if I ever get to watch anything I want on the TV. My children have a busier social life than I do!

I manage to get a lie in on a Saturday was Sunday this weekend after dh went to rugby all day and I go out once every few weeks.

i'm having some me time right now i'm in bed have watched my guilty pleasure keeping up with the kardashians (don't ask i just like it) and am now going to MN for a while then get up and clean til the baby comes home :)

Dog walk with good friends
Long soak in the bath with a good book
Pruning things in the garden
Cooking (cakes, indulgent stuff rather than everyday meals)