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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like I’m recommending this a lot on here but check out Laura Vander Kam, who writes about time management. She has a book about working moms called “I know how she does it” and her chapter on weekends talks about maximizing weekend time. There needs to be some planning and forethought to maximize time. I have a two and four year old and the loose frustrating weekends are those where we haven’t planned properly. [/quote]

OP here - I love a good book! I'll put that one on my list.

I think looking over the (helpful) posts here that you're right that planning and forethought would help me feel more accomplished. By the end of the workweek we're both exhausted and shooting from the hip, so maybe building in some planning time would help with that. I liked the idea of the person who made the to-do list that included small tasks, I think that could help, too.

For all the meanies, of course I didn't post my whole minute-by-minute schedule. It isn't like we're staring at the wall from 4-6pm or we never do "kid stuff" - we'll play in the yard or at a local playground, or in the house, and when one adult is at the gym the other takes the kids nearby to play. I know the gym time will probably need to change eventually [b]but for the moment we can't even regularly go to the zoo or museums so what's the point[/b]? But between snack and dinner and the prep it takes to get the kids out of the house for a "bigger" trip we find that time block hard to manage. I think things will improve more post-COVID/when there are vaccines for my kids - we used to use that block of time for local errands, which we don't do with the kids now, so running errands without the kids creates additional logistical nightmares. Pre-COVID that would have been library/grocery store/etc. but all those things are truncated or more complicated at the moment. Better planning out of our time would probably also help, but is just another thing to do! Worth a try to see how much it improves things, though.

It is interesting to see all the people eating dinner at the pool - I've never even been to one that has allowed food! I'm pretty sure food isn't permitted at any DC public pool, so while we could sneak in a snack I'd never dream of setting up a literal picnic. [/quote]

Umm, okay then. Re what's bolded, PPs have suggested tons of fun kid outings we all do right now, but you seem to have a very rigid way of looking at things, OP.[/quote]

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