[quote author="roundcorners" date=1258806229][quote author="traceimage" date=1258789517]This is totally random, but I'm just wondering what everyone does on the weekends. I think it's because I secretly think everyone is having more fun than me.
Anyway, here's what I do (very different now that I have a child!):
Friday night: Eat dinner at home and then watch TV, occasionally go out to dinner with family or friends
Saturday: Try to do a fun family outing, otherwise run errands
Saturday night: Eat dinner at home or occasionally go out with husband and leave the kid with the grandparents
Sunday: Either go out to lunch with my sister or with the family, then either relax at home or run boring errands
How about you?</blockquote>
trace... how old is you little one? Ours is 9 1/2 months... and we still do not have a social life... it really blows me away that some couple with infants can still go out to dinner, movie and stuff...
Here is our daily schedule, let alone our weekend schedule...
6 - Wake up, play in room for about 1 hour, while mom sleeps
7:30-8:30 - I take kid out for a walk around Woodbury, while mom sleeps
9-10 - Kid takes Am nap, we eat breakfast, work on the phone, I get ready to leave house
11 - 2nd nursing feeding, after he wakes...
11:45 - Oatmeal time
12:00 - 2nd walk outside, get some sun & fun
1:30-2 - 2nd nap, wife tries to conserve energy...
2-4 - more stimuli, errands, walks, tummy time
4 - Oatmeal time - I get home, help feeding
4:30 - daddy time, walks, tummy time
5 - Bath time
5:30 - Whine down, story time, I give last milk feeding with bottle
6 - night, night
6:30 - wife & I eat dinner quietly in our 1-bedroom apt
7-8:30 - some quality time at home, some days one of us has some sort of activity at church, IHB time for me, maybe this coming Wednesday, one of our friend can come over after 6 and we can go out to dinner...
Only difference is on Sunday:
10 - I go to church, 2nd service by myself while kid & wife get up & ready
11:45 - Wife and kid roll into church
11:45-12 - I feed kid the oatmeal at church - while wife attends 3rd service
1-1:30 - Take the kid home by myself and sooth him to sleep 2nd nap, while wife take a breather at church...
Being a parent has been THE HARDEST thing we have ever done!!! For some of our friends who do not nurse and have not sleep trained their kids, their lives basically has not changed... Our lives revolve around, naps, oatmeal, nursing or pumping & these 2 hour increments... I have not worked a full 40 hour week since Feb... all we can say is that we hope this will all pay off someday...</blockquote>
Wow, that is a lot of detail! Thanks. I always like to know how people organize their lives with kids. Your schedule is intense! It sounds like you have him on a great sleeping schedule. That's really good. But I'm wondering, what happens after 8:30?
My son is 21 months. It's gotten easier to have a life now that he naps only once a day instead of twice. Before, when he took 2 naps, all activities had to be crammed into the period between his naps. It was really hectic. Now it is easier because we have a longer period of awake time. Also he eats 3 meals now like a regular person, so there aren't constant milk feedings all the time. Everything has really gotten easier now that he's older.
We didn't have much of a social life when our son was an infant. We still really don't, haha. But we've gotten a lot more relaxed about naps, timing, etc. Like if we want to go on a daytrip or something, we figure the baby can just sleep in the car and it's ok if he doesn't take an "official" nap. I just got tired of letting the baby's schedule prevent us from doing the kinds of things we used to do. We used to go out all the time and do lots of activities, and I miss that. So it might be kind of selfish, but we've made a conscious decision to occasionally (at least on some weekends) do what we want to do and the kid will just have to adapt. I think that might even be better for him in the long run.
