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Do You Find Weekends Easier Or Harder With Your Toddler?
Our weekends might include bagels
The weekend is upon us, and this one is a long one, at least for me and the kids. My Preschooler has Monday off, and my husband is working.
Regardless, even though I love the weekends because we’re all together, I sometimes find them more challenging than the rest of the week.
Our schedules are off. The kids usually go to bed later if we’re out and about or have dinner with friends. When we stay home, they can get cabin fever, which is a whole other animal.
It’s much more difficult to get them to nap on the weekends. In fact, my preschooler naps at school every week day but refuses to nap on the weekends.
Then, there’s moments like last weekend, when I thought I was going to lose it after a sugar-filled birthday party. Luckily, that situation worked out.
But meanwhile, I really love doing things together as a family. I love that there’s no pressure to go anywhere at any specific time, and that we don’t have to rush people out of the house in the morning. I love to go to our favorite bagel place and the local airport to watch the planes take off and land. We see friends and go to parties. It’s also nice to share the bedtime routine duties.
Weekends are almost always more exhausting than what goes on during the week, so when Monday rolls around, I’m usually ready, especially with an extra day.
How about you? Do you find weekends harder or easier than during the week?
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Owlissa commented on Feb 18 12 at 6:18 amNaps are definitely harder, and any sense of routine that I manage to muster throughout the week is gone. Nonetheless, I cannot help but revel in having all three of us together. Like you, I love our little family rituals, like the farmers’ market every sunday. If I had to choose, I’d wish everyday was the weekend.
Laura commented on Feb 18 12 at 6:48 amI dread the weekend snow that we have two. With one it was a nice combination of family time, errands and some personal time and an almost guaranteed nap for me. Now, I feel the anxiety start on my way home from work on Friday because the baby is a terrible napper, and the effort to get her to even nap an hour is exhausting. And all we do is chores, errands and fight the nap battle. And she sleeps much worse on the weekends which means I am a mess on Monday mornings. Day care is closed Monday and I am not pleased. Love my kids but hate the stage we are in. It gets easier, right?
Emily commented on Feb 18 12 at 9:10 amYeah, our routine totally flies out the window on the weekend, which can make it harder. I enjoy just relaxing and not having to do anything at any specific time, like you said, but that can also lead to chaos because the kids can get a little stir crazy without their regular routine. I also find that I always have grand plans for all I’m going to get done with the extra help from my hubs, but it pretty much never works out the way I plan and then I end the weekend bummed because I didn’t get to do all that I wanted too. I definitely agree – weekends have both their positives and negatives, but I do enjoy the change of pace from the weekdays, and always look forward to the weekends.
Naomi commented on Feb 18 12 at 10:57 amYes, routine is the main problem, and
@Emily- yes, the projects…I dream of getting things done but I usually end the weekend with either nothing done or more to do than before the weekend.
@Laura- well…I guess it gets easier in some ways…and harder in others. I don’t really feel like I’m at an easy stage right now, but the whole baby nap thing is a real pain in the rump.
@Owlissa- I do love everyone together, but I’m not sure I could do it every day of the week!
Danielle commented on Feb 18 12 at 11:06 amWeekends are harder…I have found that the way to save my sanity is to have a morning plan, and an afternoon plan. If we stay home all day, due to weather for example, I’m in a worse mood that everyone else by the end of the day. Luckily, here in Napa, there are a few kid friendly options that involve wine…I will count myself lucky though that my toddler still naps almost two hours every day without a fight! But, we are slaves to the nap, which causes other problems.
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