My hubs works full-time and is getting his PHD, so he leaves the house to study every Saturday, and travels one weekend/ month for his doctorate program. So, being a stay-at-home mom, all the days just run together, and I just NEED the weekends in general to feel different from the rest of the week. So, thanks to a Facebook poll, I came up with some great ideas, and have been implementing them for the last month. And let me tell you- it's already a GAME CHANGER. I'm already looking forward to my next weekend, which never used to be the case. Here's all I did...
1. Took turns sleeping in with the hubs. Sleeping in was my biggest weekend tradition before kids. ;) After birthing & breastfeeding 3 babies in 3 years, I am sufficiently sleep-deprived, so this was the biggest one for me. I sleep in on Saturday (crawling back into bed after nursing my bottle-hating baby at 6am), and the hubs gets the kids up, dressed, and fed. It feels like Christmas morning to sleep til 8am. Then he sleeps in on Sunday. Genius. Why have I never thought of that?! #thanksfacebookmom
2. "Dad-urday" was the term a friend used, and I loved it! Andrew has occasionally watched the kids for a couple hours on Saturdays over the years to give me a break, but never super consistently, and I usually still have the baby. This weekend, he watched all 3 in the morning for a couple hours, and then went to study at lunchtime. HUGE. I totally just hid in our bedroom and made hairbows for Audrey, because bows are my happy place. ;) Other times I've walked around Target and then read in their coffee shop, which has been heavenly. The point is, usually by naptime, I'm so exhausted from meeting three little people's needs for 7 hours straight, I can't even sit up straight. So having a break in the morning is awesome.
3. No cooking on Sunday. Some days all I feel like I do is cook, feed people, clean up, repeat. Even when we have leftovers at night, I still usually cook Andrew's beloved turkey sausage for breakfast the next day, or muffins for the boys, or granola ball snacks for the week, or something! So not cooking anything for a WHOLE DAY neverrrrrrrr happens. Until now. And it is glorious. No cooking, no cleaning up... And I think I'm going to start a tradition of "breakfast for dinner" every Sunday night. I could eat breakfast 3 meals a day, and we always have eggs, sausage, muffins, etc. on hand. Pull them out, cut up some fruit, and call it done. THE BEST.
Y'all. This has seriously changed my life, and I am so not even exaggerating. We've tried other things too, but these three are by far the best changes we've made. #MakeWeekendsGreatAgain
Tell me your tips and tricks!!!
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