Reclaiming the Weekend

I don't know about you, but lately I've been finding weekends more frustrating than not.  Everyone is in the mindset that it is a day off (myself included) and we fritter away the days doing nothing.  Instead of feeling good and refreshed, we seem to be listless and cranky by the end, and I usually wind up starting the week off buried under dishes that haven't been done since Friday.

2 weeks ago I decided that we needed to add some structure to our weekends if we wanted to have some fun, so our Saturdays are now structured like this:

wake up- 9:30am- free time (usually screen time, be it cartoons or computer games)

9:30-noon- Everyone work together on some house project

noon- ???- family activity

First week went great, we got some work done, so I was less burdened and we had a birthday party Saturday afternoon, so the kids had a great afternoon.  

Last week not so stellar, hubby's "work" was building a new computer, so the rest still fell on my shoulders, and it's hard to motivate the munchkin crew when I can barely motivate myself!  We did go to the park in the afternoon, but it was so cold we didn't stay long.

I think it can work for us, but needs some tweaking.  I didn't take into consideration Mr. Mischief's naptime, so we may need to push our family activity back to 2ish, or head out first thing...  I'm open to suggestions!

How Time Flies

I can't believe that so many months have passed since my last post!  A lot has happened here since September.

Princess is blossoming at school, and loving every minute of it.

Sweet Pea has become the loudest member of the household, as only a 3 year old can do.

Mr. Mischief has been getting into tons of, well, mischief.

And, finally, we welcomed a new little bundle back in November, we'll call him Tiny Sasquatch (there was a thing floating around Facebook, about your true Canadian name, and that was his, and I like it!).

Now with four small children (both in stature and in age) my life seems to be nothing but a whirl wind of diapers, feedings and laundry.  You can't forget the laundry.  If you do it very quickly buries you!

I've been doing a fairly decent job of staying on top of things, domestically, thanks to my handy dandy Cleaning Calendar, and it turns out that a clean house makes for a happier husband and makes room for a lot more fun!