Many of you have heard the phrase, “A Weekend well spent brings a week of content”. I am a firm believer in that, and I truly believe that when you have a good, relaxing weekend, you are better prepared for a great week. All throughout my 20’s, I didn’t prioritize slowing down or preparing for my week ahead, and this caused me to feel like I was hanging by a thread day after day, struggling to catch up. Now, in my 30’s and for the last couple of years, I highly prioritize balance and self-care and part of that includes how I spend my free time and how I prepare for the days ahead. I enjoy the slowing down and resetting of my mind, recharging my body, and doing stuff with intention. I love the idea of being home early on Sunday evenings and making sure that my stuff is prepared for the new week ahead as well as my families, especially since our weeks can be so hectic.
I made a list of 50 things I personally love to do on weekends and hope that it will inspire you to take some of my relaxing ideas and add to yours.
Favorite weekend daytime activities
- Enjoy a homemade cup of coffee before everyone gets up
- Walk to your favorite coffee shop with your family
- Go on a morning walk/ run/ morning yoga
- Work on your garden
- Ditch the social media all morning
- Sleep in
- Apply a face mask
- Read a book
- Update your planner/ plan out your week
- Enjoy a slow morning routine
- Walk at the beach
- Stretch
- Watch the sunrise
- Analyze vision board- Update goals
- Meal Plan for Family Meals and make grocery shopping list
- Make family breakfast – This is my favorite morning weekend thing to do! I love to make a full breakfast on weekends for my family- waffles, pancakes, or French toast with fruit, powdered sugar and whip cream. Things we don’t have time for during the week.
- Church – We try to do either Saturday night or Sunday morning mass
- Meet friends for brunch or lunch
- Meet a friend for coffee
- Spend time with your parents/siblings
- Family outing at park
- Learn a sport together as a family – We are trying to pick up tennis!
- Walk your 4 legged family member- Give it extra Love on weekends – For us, it is our mother in laws dog because we don’t have one, but we love to all go out for walks with Ruffles.
- Declutter / Tidy up a space in your home
- Drop off those donations sitting in your trunk
- Enjoy a mid-day iced coffee or smoothie
- Take the kids to the library
- Clean out your car
- Go grocery shopping for the week
- BBQ!
- Have a day date with your husband- We are due for one soon!
- Have the kids pick out 1 activity they want to do and do one every weekend
- Toy Clean out
- Have a family picnic – We grew up on family park picnics! So many memories of our parents taking us out to the park the full day while we BBQed or even just picked something up to eat, some snacks and some watermelons for the day while we played until it was time to go!
- Visit a kids’ Museum – We loved visiting our local exploration center a few months ago
- Solo errand day – I love to do this one every couple of weeks – run errands without my kids – me, iced coffee, and a to-do list.
- Beach day
- Spring clean
- Go get some froyo! Have kids pick out their favorite toppings!
Evening/ Night Fave Activities – One of the most essential parts taking care of yourself
- Cook a favorite family meal
- Take a warm bath
- Family movie night
- Read a book
- Meditate before bedtime
- Unplug earlier
- Do a longer skin care routine
- Gratitude Journal
- Listen to relaxing music
- Make a yummy late evening snack-This is our favorite thing to do on an evening in .
- Light yoga
Hope that you are able to find some of my favorite things to do on weekends relatable or that you can use some of my ideas to add to your day. Have a great rest of your week xO
Csy
Csy-Lux 
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