What does your weekend typically look like with 2 young children?

[everysunrise]

How much time do you get to yourself, with your partner, with children, with friends? Is it split equally between you both?

What does a typical day look like at the weekend?

Wake up chaos, chaos, chaos, breathe, chaos,

All hands on deck at weekends so ‘me’ time is after bedtime.

Sports. I think DS7's best day ever would involve 12hrs of taking football penalties against each other 🤔

But now he's old enough to sit through a game then a season ticket has been the best investment ever - him and DH disappear off and I have a half day to meet friends/see my parents/lie on the sofa eating Maltesers!

I always look forward to the weekend as it'll be relaxing and then the weekend actually arrives and yeah, no. 😅 We try and take it in turns to watch the kids/do jobs on one day and then go out as a family the other. When we just had one child, we used to have a weekend morning each to do whatever we wanted but haven't done that since having 2. I do think we should bring that back though as it was so nice!

I try to go out somewhere child friendly, especially at this time of year. We go to the forest, various streams for paddling, beach but it’s a bit further, play parks. We take a picnic. Mine are 4 and 8 and quite happy to play together out and about. I often look like a bad mother reading or on my phone in the play park!

We are together as a family almost the whole weekend. Eldest has an activity early on Saturday morning so DH takes her there, then we go out as a family. Usually we have an event booked - a trip out, museum, theatre, concert, festival. Something aimed at children, rather than an adult activity that we drag the dcs along to. Sundays we all go for a family swim then dc1 has an activity nearby, then we visit somewhere in the afternoon - park, museum, attraction etc. In the school holidays we don't have the activities so we try to go out for longer day trips, NT properties, seaside, theme parks etc.
I enjoy going out with them, we have a great variety of family-friendly arts in London (venues like Royal Opera House, Royal Albert Hall, Tate, plus a lot of the musicals) and it's just as interesting for me as it is for them.

I don't spend time with friends at the weekend and neither does DH. I have time to myself when dcs are at school or in bed. DH and I don't spend much time as a couple without the dcs. We have an equal amount of time to ourselves at weekends i.e virtually zero each!

Mostly this and definitely since having the third (8 months).

the most important thing is how you'd like it look @everysunrise

then aim for that 😉😂

When mine were small ( 20 years ago) the morning was full with sport and musical theatre club...that took till 12.30pm. Several of my friends did the same so we took it in turns to do
Drop offs and collections....which meant a free morning for me regularly. Dh played golf in the morning...back by one and I'd have the afternoon to myself. As they got older, they'd go to friends in the afternoon or have friends round.
Sunday....walk somewhere. We had no family to visit really so it was just us.
We kept parties to a minimum...only those of about half a dozen close friends not whole class ones.