cate

I feel you on the weekend dread. I’m often excited about Saturday, but by the afternoon I’m ready for daycare to start. Mondays feel like a huge relief, and I often feel guilty about that. My husband and I are naturally homebodies, and it’s taken a big adjustment for us to learn that we HAVE to plan activities to not go crazy. We find one kid-oriented activity a day adds enough structure for us. So we’ll try and do a play date one day and maybe visit with local family another day or even meet some friends for lunch somewhere easy. Every weekend we do a movie night where we eat something easy (think pizza or chicken nuggets) at the coffee table while watching. And this is on top of morning cartoons. So screen time definitely happens over here. Anyway, those are our tools, if you will. If they are helpful, that’s great, but either way, please know that you are not alone in the weekend dread. I say this as I’m preparing to start a long weekend right now… sigh.