Weekend shared parenting

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I'm curious as to how others share out childcare at the weekend (with their partners). I always feel frustrated by Sunday night. How do you manage family time and "me time" plus all the other stuff you need to do?

Family time for us is a trip to the supermarket.
We roughly take turns to do pooey nappies.
We each have a child to get ready for bed at bedtime.
"Me time" (a concept I'm not sure about really - more like "time away from the kids so I can have a cup of tea in peace whilst it's still warm") is when they're in bed if I choose to go upstairs and read. I also have an hour or so to myself when I get in from work and the kids are still at nursery.
Household chores such as washing and cleaning are shared.
If I'm really desperate then I just go out and leave dh with the kids. He would do the same if he needed to.

We do things together mostly as a family and do what's needed when it's needed. We still get an hour to ourselves when ds sleeps, though he's 3 now and doesn't need a nap every day. Either dh will stay home with him while I swim or I'll stay home and he'll go out and do something. As far as household chores we share these equally throughout our week, depending on what time each of us is home etc.

in the winter i ride my horse both mornings for an hour or 2. in summer on sundays as DH has cricket on saturdays.

the rest of the time is family time. cooking depends on the meal as to whether its one of 'mine' or DH's.

I get a lie in on saturday, DH on sunday.

we have DS1 (4) and DTs (21m) so we both do bedtime together. i am a SAHM so household stuff is done by me during the week.

Thanks for your replies. I think I'm realising that I need to leave the house and do some exercise at a regular time and then cook something interesting. This way I get a break and we all have a nice dinner! DH doesn't really do anything except surf the Internet all day on and off so I feel like I'm drifting along wasting the day waiting for mealtimes. Not a massive problem. I just want more from my weekend!

Saturday morning DH goes out and does his own thing. I play in with DD(2) and DS(4) or take them shopping or sledging. In the afternoon DH will usually take DS out and I will stay at home and chill out/prep dinner while DD has her nap.

Sunday morning DH will drop DS off at an activity for the morning, then go and do his own thing. I play with DD, either indoors or out in the garden. Sunday afternoon I go out and do my own thing, and DH stays at home with the children.
All meals eaten together. Usually I cook the meals except for Sunday evening, which DH does.
I am a sahm so we do minimal cleaning at shopping at the weekend - I do it in the week.
In the summer we have more days out all together as a family. In winter we find it easier to split up more as there is a limited amount of stuff we can do with DD outside but we drive each other mad if we all stay in together all weekend.

Dh never wants to do anything at weekend and it's usually a struggle! I'm getting better about telling him what to do, rather than asking, it seems to work better! He does work stupid hours though so I always let him get the lie in as ds doesn't wake til 8 anyway! Usually he'll suggest going shopping at half three on a Sunday or something, when everything closes in half an hour. He cannot understand that our day has to revolve around ds and his naps instead of him! It's frustrating!