We did nothing this weekend, and it was actually kind of nice.
With our weeks feeling busier, especially for my son who is kind of struggling to make it through seven hours of organized activities (drop off is by 9:15 and pick up isn’t until 4:30), we no longer push outside time on the weekend. My kids never even got dressed on Sunday.
It’s what they want so we’re giving it to them. They are only on screens an hour a day during the week so we don’t mind them playing Minecraft for two hours in the mornings and then watching a movie on Saturday night (or TV on Sunday).
It’s nice to feel like the weekends are a little different from the weekdays. It’s nice to have nothing planned, and since I’m doing so much Monday through Friday, sitting around all day doesn’t fill me with dread like it used to.
Here were a few things that did happen this weekend:
- My son had his first remote vision therapy appointment.
- I wrestled with my kids on our big king size bed (and it was actually really fun).
- We played MarioKart together.
- I built my son’s new big kid desk.
- My husband took a bunch of work calls.
- I worked out on the elliptical while participating in a professional development webinar.
- My husband and I watched Palm Springs on Hulu (which I HIGHLY recommend, especially during the pandemic).
- I played EVERY one of the ::cough:: 45 games on PEAK, a brain games an app I just download that I LOVE and that I’m hoping will keep me away from my NYT and WaPo apps for the foreseeable future.
- My husband did a ton of NYT crossword puzzles on his phone.
- I did a bunch of laundry.
- My husband did a bunch of dishes.
- I realized my new glasses aren’t quite right (I think one of the lenses is slightly tilted which makes everything slightly blurry – ESPECIALLY when I watch TV) and made an appointment to take them in.
- I made pretzels and cherry lime rickeys and we watched A Bug’s Life (one of my favorite, and a highly underrated – in my opinion – Pixar film).
- We all put together Pokemon card decks and played each other (we actually know how to play now and it’s actually really engaging and fun).
- I read more of my book.
- My kids played a lot of Minecraft.
- I helped my daughter Marie Kondo her books.
- I wrote a couple of blog posts.
All in all it was a pretty enjoyable weekend, and I attribute that to my son being in a camp all week, which made Saturday and Sunday actually feel different.
How did you pass the last two days?
(Not covid) but on absolute medical lock down SIP for next 3 1/2 weeks. SO weekend was super quiet and I am appreciating computers and apps extra much….. also Public Library Ebooks and telephone.
Very glad you got to have down quiet time this weekend. Have a clear difference between M-F and SS really is helpful I agree. Luckily your weather was much nicer than ours (100’s). Really curious how you figured out your glasses might have a tilt in a lens. I have just sat here and shut one eye at a time and looked with the open eye at this page. Neither eye alone was clear. Ought they to be? The type of distortion in the open eye varied right to left eye. One eye had more double vision distortion the other one was just fuzzy. Is this normal? Not that I can do anything about seeing the vision docs right now. But curious how you figured it out.
Sending you and all your readers wishes for health and laughter.
Good luck with the shelter in place. I hope the time passes quickly!
As for the glasses, I thought they were fine until we tried to watch a movie with subtitles and I noticed there were trailers on the text, and it was super distracting. I hadn’t noticed it with close up reading, but once the TV thing happened I started checking, and realized that if I tilted my head slightly to the left it was much clearer. I have astigmatism so the placement of the lens makes a difference, and I’ve been told I’m “VERY” sensitive to that (from people who have to fix my glasses when they are clearly off – luckily they can actually use an instrument to see it or I think they would tell me to just live with it!)
Bug’s Life is such a wonderful movie and I quote it somewhat often.