Weekdays vs Weekends

*Please note this post was written pre-quarantine.

I have this thing about weekdays and weekends.  I have a whole different outlook during the weekdays, a different modus operandi Monday through Friday, and when the weekend hits I run completely differently.  And I am not sure I like it. On weekdays we are on a schedule with school, work, and the same extracurriculars every week. Bath, dinner, and bedtime is all on an earlier schedule and we all wake up earlier, and we are out the door by 7:35 am.  Meals are planned ahead of time and I mealprep a little every day. Once it hits Friday I start looking forward to Saturday and Sunday when my husband is off work, we don’t have school, and we have more fun and be more adventurous …I always think spontaneous things could theoretically happen on the weekends.

What happens is that I try to cram all sorts of errands, social events, get togethers, outings, chores, and home projects in to just those two days, so many that it often leaves all of us exhausted.  As much as the freedom of the weekend entices me, I think I like the structure and limitations even, of the weekdays. We can only do so much when there is school and work involved. Weekdays are all business for our family and that really sets the tone for every family member to be more serious about things, we are more organized, and again, just more structured.  I have tried to be more structured on weekends but I find that doesn’t work! Why? Because there is no school and work schedule to be enforced on us and because my husband is home and with us, and after a long hard week of work, he does not want to be on a crazy schedule.

Sometimes I think I should put a little more weekend in my weekdays and vice versa.  Do some more projects and errands during the week so they are not all saved for the weekend.  Take it a little easier on the weekdays and go out to eat or on a little afternoon outing. On the weekends I think I need to be a lot more realistic about how much time we really have and prioritize what I really want to do and get done.  Ideally weekends are family time and reset/regroup time for myself and all of us. I am more of an all or nothing type of person, which is to my own detriment. It isn’t all or nothing, weekdays can be just as fun and free as weekends (at least in my head) and weekends can also be more organized and structured without feeling stressful.  I feel more restricted for sure on weekdays and on weekends I see so much potential, and I am not being realistic about either.