What do you do on the weekend?

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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?
 
Friday Night: Dinner in, chill out with the Wii Sports for an hour or so (my wife likes the Frisbee game), then read a book or watch a movie in bed.

Saturday: errands or chores until evening

Saturday Night: Date night, every week, no exceptions except for illness. Usually dinner and a movie, sometimes the drive-in during the summer, sometimes a drive to the mountains, or sometimes just movies on the deck after a barbecue.

Sunday: during football season, we either watch a good game or take a drive and listen to a good game, followed by a stop for some treat (milkshake, fresh cookies, hand-dipped chocolates) and then either back home for a good game or some more sight-seeing before dark. Lately, we end up going to Sur La Table to get a new pot or pan to replace her failing ones. During the summer, we take day trips to wherever we can.
 
Nude said:
Friday Night: Dinner in, chill out with the Wii Sports for an hour or so (my wife likes the Frisbee game), then read a book or watch a movie in bed.

Saturday: errands or chores until evening

Saturday Night: Date night, every week, no exceptions except for illness. Usually dinner and a movie, sometimes the drive-in during the summer, sometimes a drive to the mountains, or sometimes just movies on the deck after a barbecue.

Sunday: during football season, we either watch a good game or take a drive and listen to a good game, followed by a stop for some treat (milkshake, fresh cookies, hand-dipped chocolates) and then either back home for a good game or some more sight-seeing before dark. Lately, we end up going to Sur La Table to get a new pot or pan to replace her failing ones. During the summer, we take day trips to wherever we can.
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Is it Saturday or Sunday morning that you have pancakes?
 
Kid's sports, play with kids, nag kids, chores, church, lunch out, open houses, check Asian markets on Sunday evening.
 
Here is my upcoming weekend:

Friday night: Old Navy for dad winter clothes, BJ's Brewhouse so mom can get her pizza fix, then Yogurtland so daugther can get her fix

Saturday: Kid activities in the morning. The Grove (American Girl place!) and then visit friends who live in West LA afternoon/evening

Sunday: FOOTBALL, laundry, and assemble my new patio furniture set so I can have more people over to watch more FOOTBALL. Child playdates with the neighbors are always on Sunday, too.

Woo Hoo ---- PAR-TAAAAAY!!!
 
Friday night: work until i'm too tired to do anything and just veg for a couple of hours before passing out.

Saturday: up at 5:45 to prep for my mountain bike ride. go on mountain bike ride. post ride coffee with ride group. get home around 11:30 to grumpy wife who was alone most of the morning because of said mountain bike ride. :) Then its random house related errands. A couple of hours of work. Then possibly a movie and dinner.

Sunday: repeat of above regarding mountain bike ride. work. eat. left4dead2. sleep.=P
 
LA, Pasadena, San Marino, Arcadia, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Century city, and Santa Monica on a weekly rotation. Within each cities are ethnic restaurants, boutique bookstores, art galleries, museums, Saks, Neiman, Barneys, Laemmles theatres, Grove, Old Town, vintage hardware, Robertson boutiques, vintage home tours and neighborhoods, and of course herb stores and two story Target in the city. We are hardly home but when we are home usually out in the rear courtyard by the fireplace.

Friday night is usually Rowland Height for Chinese Cafe.

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Friday Afternoon: One kid to swimming lessons, the other to piano lessons with another neighbor kid.

Friday Night: Neighbor kid comes for a playdate and to do homework. Take her home and chill out with the kids hoping that they'll stay up late enough to let us sleep in until at least 7:00 am the next morning.

Saturday morning: 3 mile walk with a few neighbors.

Saturday afternoon: off to golf lessons for my son (try to get the week's worth of shopping done in 40 minutes), do more Kindergarten homework.

Saturday night: try to go to bed early and hope that IF there is a poker game in my house, I'll just sleep instead of being sucked into the game.

Sunday morning: 3 mile walk with the neighbors, then the other kid goes to swim lessons.

Sunday afternoon: relax and finish homework until mid afternoon, then off to the in-laws for the weekly Sunday night dinner.

Now that I've written that, it actually reads much more boring than it truly is ;-)
 
CK said:
Here is my upcoming weekend:

Friday night: Old Navy for dad winter clothes, BJ's Brewhouse so mom can get her pizza fix, then Yogurtland so daugther can get her fix

Saturday: Kid activities in the morning. The Grove (American Girl place!) and then visit friends who live in West LA afternoon/evening

Sunday: FOOTBALL, laundry, and assemble my new patio furniture set so I can have more people over to watch more FOOTBALL. Child playdates with the neighbors are always on Sunday, too.

Woo Hoo ---- PAR-TAAAAAY!!!
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My girls love to have tea at The American Girl Doll store in The Grove.
 
My typical weekend:

Friday night: grab dinner with some friends

Saturday morning thru Saturday afternoon: out with my buyers showing properties (when I didn't have my CPA review classes)

Saturday night: go to the Improv, and/or play some poker

Sunday morning thru Sunday afternoon: out with my buyers showing properties (if not, watching some football)

Sunday night: run some errands like going grocery shopping
 
traceimage said:
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?
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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...
 
roundcorners said:
traceimage said:
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?
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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

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 my 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...
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I truly hope you are finding the time for your baby to be alone in a play yard and learn how to occupy himself for periods of time, as well as spend time with other people besides mom or dad. I'm just afraid that I've seen this scenario before, and the kid never really learns how to be independent. Sorry if I am inferring too much but your scenario kind of scares me. We have some close friends (who happen to be Korean and live in Irvine) and their child is the same age as ours (now 5). He tried several playdates with us from about age two and mom was never more than 12 inches away. They couldn't leave him in the church nursery or even toddler classes because all he did was scream for mom. His transition to preschool was not very smooth and his social skills are still lacking. He still sleeps with mom and dad. Sorry if I am being too nosy or assuming.
 
roundcorners said:
traceimage said:
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?
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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...
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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.
 
i dont have kids, so not sure what the point of scheduling naps is? Are they supposed to benefit the baby/toddler? Is seems to dictate all of your schedule. Cant he just sleep when he is tired? wouldnt he just fall asleep at some point?
 
qwerty said:
i dont have kids, so not sure what the point of scheduling naps is? Are they supposed to benefit the baby/toddler? Is seems to dictate all of your schedule. Cant he just sleep when he is tired? wouldnt he just fall asleep at some point?
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We all learn quickly that schedules and routine are important to a baby, a child and, consequently, an adult. Yes, he would fall asleep at some point, unfortunately after a major meltdown that no one wants to deal with.
 
Only one person said they're on IHB during the weekend. Hmmm.

Here's mine:

Friday 5pm-Sunday 10pm--spend every waking moment cross-referencing Redfin, So Cal MLS, and Realtor.com to keep track of every new listing, price reduction, status change, etc. Call realtor in panicked tizzy every time a new listing pops up in my price range and demand that I see new listing now now now!!

In my downtime I post nonsensical drivel on the IHB forums (correction: two people said they're on IHB during the weekend).
 
renbac said:
Only one person said they're on IHB during the weekend. Hmmm.

Here's mine:

Friday 5pm-Sunday 10pm--spend every waking moment cross-referencing Redfin, So Cal MLS, and Realtor.com to keep track of every new listing, price reduction, status change, etc. Call realtor in panicked tizzy every time a new listing pops up in my price range and demand that I see new listing now now now!!

In my downtime I post nonsensical drivel on the IHB forums (correction: two people said they're on IHB during the weekend).
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Don't you know, weekends are slow on IHB.
 
USCTrojanCPA said:
renbac said:
Only one person said they're on IHB during the weekend. Hmmm.

Here's mine:

Friday 5pm-Sunday 10pm--spend every waking moment cross-referencing Redfin, So Cal MLS, and Realtor.com to keep track of every new listing, price reduction, status change, etc. Call realtor in panicked tizzy every time a new listing pops up in my price range and demand that I see new listing now now now!!

In my downtime I post nonsensical drivel on the IHB forums (correction: two people said they're on IHB during the weekend).
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Don't you know, weekends are slow on IHB.
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Unless Kogi is coming to town. We will be at Din Tai Fung for dumplings as usual. Then head over to Beverly Hills Rodeo for an art gallery opening. I am so thankful finally the good movies are rolling out for the Holiday and Oscar buzz. We like the theater at Century City. We might go there for the movie and check out the thermostatics control valve at Restoration Hardware too. We desperately need one in our home. Its leaking badly and does not regulate temperature correctly. It is rare to even locate the proper parts for this expensive and hard to find brand. So we would rather get the cheaper one from Restoration Hardware and pay a plumber to remove the wall tiles, cut the pipes and weld the new assembly on to the reconfigured pipes. Now I wish I have a Ticky tract home instead.
 
tmare said:
roundcorners said:
traceimage said:
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?
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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

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 my 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...
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I truly hope you are finding the time for your baby to be alone in a play yard and learn how to occupy himself for periods of time, as well as spend time with other people besides mom or dad. I'm just afraid that I've seen this scenario before, and the kid never really learns how to be independent. Sorry if I am inferring too much but your scenario kind of scares me. We have some close friends (who happen to be Korean and live in Irvine) and their child is the same age as ours (now 5). He tried several playdates with us from about age two and mom was never more than 12 inches away. They couldn't leave him in the church nursery or even toddler classes because all he did was scream for mom. His transition to preschool was not very smooth and his social skills are still lacking. He still sleeps with mom and dad. Sorry if I am being too nosy or assuming.
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Every kid's temperament as well as family situations (work schedule, help & method of choice) are all different... we decided early on to follow a method and stick to it... right off the bat, are threw out about 4-5 books because it just didn't work... and things kept changing.. and we don't have time to read any more books... we stuck to the Weissbluth method of early regular sleep patterns and it worked the best given our living situation, lack of help & my work schedule... Our son loves people, we tried to get him to church on time so he can play with the other kids... he has no problems being left alone, but yes we also have to reinforce that... our biggest problem is the naps & lack of help... it is just the wife & I, period!!! Yeah, I know a lot of you guys (Asians) have the grand-parents help, but we don't. We really have to coordinate it with my mom, and friends... the only break is at the end of the day... when we put him down, he does sleep well at night, maybe at most one or two night awakenings... but he sleeps from 6 to 6... it's been a HUGE sacrifice, and I'm not about to tell any other parent what to do... for again, every family is different.. for the most part, everyone is just trying to get through the first years, without being permanently damaged, physically, emotionally & financially...
 
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