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Weekend Rule?
Dear Holly,
What do you do on weekends? It seems like depending on how busy our Saturday and Sunday is, half of Monday is spent catching up on laundry and housework. What do you do?
Labels: About a Rule of Life
posted by Holly at 3:45 PM
3 Comments:
Weekends - good question!
Friday nights I stay up as late as I want after my 10 pm adoration hour. Saturdays I sleep in til 8 or 9 or so, depending,and stay up til I want . Sundays I'm up at 8 am to get ready for 9 am Mass & I do Music Ministry.
Normally, we have done our major downstairs housecleaning Friday after 4 pm, followed by supper , chips, pop and movie night. This has worked well for us.
Saturdays - every second week I have my day out - includes confession. Other Saturdays, I do whatever I want to do - it's meant to relax - putz in the garden, paint or sew something, whatever. This is a free day for the kids too, outside of getting their bedrooms and the upstairs vacuumed.
I might do a load or two of laundry in the evening, as Philip and I usually have our in-home date night.
Sundays are generally free - we don't do very much at all! As my spiritual director once told me - lots of God, lots of family, lots of rest. We visit or have friends over or nap or go swimming or read alot or watch a show or or or...But we are VERY slack ALL DAY LONG about any type of housework - just bare bones... lots of time for each other and quiet time for God.
On Sunday evenings, after supper, we ALL do a general house tidy up -takes about an hour. All that is 'necessary' to get back on track the next day. I don't mop floors or anything extra like that on Sunday.
I may or may not put on a load of laundry at this time - it depends on whether it's necessary or not. On Mondays, I usually have an extra load or two in addition to my regular daily 2 loads, but I'm caught up by Monday night.
On those weeks where I am busy doing other types of work for my family (which is not always, but sometimes), I have arranged with my oldest 3 children (ages 10 -14) to do the complete up and downstairs cleaning 'for pay'. They have the choice about whether to do this on Friday or Saturday or a combo of both. But they do it all by themselves using the lists I have made. I or Philip inspects on Saturday night.
So for us - weekends are times of rest and recuperation! Times with God are present still as my prayer is maintained, just not in the same schedule as the weekly days; housework is covered mostly before and after the weekend which opens up the 2 days for us. But on Monday,we usually start fresh with a tidy house. Does this give you an idea?
Thanks Holly. That helps tremendously. I've been doing our weekly baking on Fri evening or Sat. morning which makes a mess! I'm not always good at getting it all cleaned up due to other activities that come up during the day. I also do some grocery shopping on Sat. so I don't have to take all the children with me. Any time I'm not home to enforce our Rule, it doesn't get done. In fact the mess multiplies! I'm trying to relax my standards a little but it seems to catch up with me on Mon.
Our Sundays are filled with church in the a.m., naps in the afternoon, and church again on Sun. night. Lots of God, lots of family, and some rest, like you said! But, with going in and out of the house alot and on a schedule, things easily get left out of place.
As of today, I'm trying to make sure that we go to bed with a tidy house each night of the weekend. This should give us a place to start.
I'm looking forward to my children getting old enough to do cleaning for pay!
I'm gleaning alot from your words! Thank you again!
For His Glory,
Betty
Hey Betty
I switched my grocery shopping to Thursday evening biweekly, ( I keep a lot of stuff inthe freezer) and I usually take one child with me so we have private time on a rotating basis. This way, my weekends are freer and I get that private time with the children. Another idea for you...
When I first started my rule, my oldest was 8 and she baked my muffins etc on Tues & Thurs afternoons for fun! Any children that age yet who need to learn to cook? I also connected baking with supper prep by extending my kitchen time by half an hour earlier every day.
That helped - and the little ones rotated from computer to free time to a video during supper prep time. That way they looked forward to this time of day.
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