I thought it could be fun to copy the New York Times feature where famous people describe a typical Sunday fior them. Theirs are often very busy and social ( though probably no one wants to say “we spend the day lying on the couch watching tv”). I don’t do that but it’s not super exciting or social either. But here goes with how a typical Sunday text has/we’ll play out. Would love to hear about yours:
Right now it’s just one of our kids at home. The other lives put east and the younger one is only here for two months until she starts her job.
I get up around 7 while everyone is still sleeping and get in a load of laundry. I do all the laundry in the house. I love doing laundry and don’t even like anyone else in my laundry room. My husband has never used our washer / dryer and neither did our kids. Despite some dire predictions they had no issue figuring it out when they were in their own apartments. None.
I read the New York Times and Washington Post for an hour or so and then text my best friend and see if she wants to take a walk. In nice weather like today we go outside. If not we go to our community rec center. We are celebrating more than 45 years of friendship this summer. We have talked almost every day for the last 45 years.
We walk for about an hour and then we go our separate ways. I come home and talk to DD who is awake and getting ready to see friends. DH leaves to jog in our park. He will then come home and shower and visit his dad who is in a nursing home.
I do some work ( I am an attorney and work part time by the hour. Always nice to earn a little on the weekends. Especially because I have recently lost a lot of weight, 68 pounds, and needed all new things.
I don’t eat til noon. Technically this is intermittent fasting but really it’s about listening to my body. I make myself lunch and DD heads out to hang with friends).
After lunch and more laundry work I do another hour of work and then walk to the store for a few things. I don’t excercise really but try to get in at least 10k steps.
In the late afternoon I do some online shopping and then around 5 take a shower. I go into work on mondays and doing my hair Sunday night works best.
I make dinner for my husband and daughter and then talk to them as they eat at our breakfast bar. I prefer to eat alone most nights. It’s much better for my eating plan to only eat with others when we go out. I eat more mindfully when I’m not talking to others. As I talk to them I clean up and put together my dinner. Often a BIG Salad with protein. After they are done I then go and eat in my den while watch tv ( for me this works to really enjoy and pay attention to my food…I know this isn’t true of many).
DH and I then discuss our upcoming week and then I style my hair. DH goes to sleep early and I either surf the net or read. I’m reading The Flight Plan. It’s very good. I try to get to bed by 11:30.
Typically I get up around 7, eat a whole wheat English muffin with peanut butter, then go for a run first thing at our local arboretum. Enjoy a smoothie and some reading when I get home (latest Flavia de Luce today). Shower and head to the grocery store. Eat lunch and talk to both kids and my dad on the phone. Finish any laundry for the week. Lately I’ve been hitting open houses in the area in the afternoon, looking to buy a condo. Early evening, I usually cook for the next few days - maybe make a chicken & veggie sheet bake, and some farro salad for lunches. I might go for a short walk at the lake a few blocks away after that, or watch an episode of a TV show on Netflix. I try to get to bed at a decent hour on Sunday - it gets tough late in the week if I start the week sleep deprived.
Made breakfast at the homeless shelter.
Meeting with consistory President of church #1
Worship at church #1
Worship at church #2 (different sermon)
Meeting at church #2
Hospital visit.
Caught drive through lunch.
Now heading to my secular job for a 3-11 shift providing personal care.
Sundays are all different for me.
Up at 6;00 AM
Surf my usual websites – NYT, WaPo, Facebook, CC, CNN
Gym until around 10:30 or so
Shower
Some home project – today, I’m going to bring the summer furniture out to the deck
Make phone calls for a volunteer activity I’m very involved with
Maybe grocery shopping
Maybe laundry
Make dinner
Read or watch junk on TV
Call it a day
Not particularly interesting, even to me!
Today is one of my favorites.
I woke up at 7
I went back to sleep from 8 to 9 - I took a melatonin and tryptan supplement that really knocked me out
Hubby made us peach pancakes and mimosas
D and her bf went out jet skiiing
We bathed the pups in the pool
I am lounging by the pool in the shade and reading and chatting with hubby and listening to music
Chatted on phone with bestie
Watching the boaters go by
I try very hard to live up to my username and spend as much of my time around home as possible, preferably seated. Up around 7, take the dogs out, feed them, then get online for my morning headcount. I check balances in our accounts and reconcile check register daily. Plan the timing on some bill paying to coordinate with paydays. Call my mother for a short chat. Messaging with out-of-state DH betwixt and between. Take the dogs out again, because the first bathroom run of the morning is usually tepid. Today I ran out to our food co-op for groceries, but I usually avoid shopping on weekends because of how crowded it gets. Our sons are both out on their own. They’re visiting end of the week, so I’m starting to dust and put their rooms to rights. Taking a break now.
About to take dogs for a walk. Making scones to freeze before baking. Breakfast for the kids will be grab and pop in the oven but still home-made. Sons eat a different diet than we do, and DH eats way more than I do, so there is menu planning and grocery listing in my future. Need to pore over my planner and coordinate my errands for the week around a couple of meetings, appointments, and taking care of things my mother needs. I’ve also got some fluffy summer reading lined up.
Been doing NYT crosswords online. We got a subscription and I went back and caught up to all the Monday puzzles. Started on Tuesdays now, working my way up.
My new rose tree has its roots soaking in water. Still haven’t decided whether to pot it today or tomorrow.
Intersperse the above liberally with more installments of feed-the-dogs, walk-the-dogs, brush-the-dogs.
I get up around 5 am as I do most days.
Coffee, read the WP and NYT. Check for any twitter tirades.
Get Sabapup up, give her breakfast and meds, then a big walk.
Run errands while everyone else is in church.
I’m trying out some trail running, so just finished a few miles this afternoon. I usually don’t exercise on Sundays.
Normally I’d do laundry and meal prep, but I’m going to a fundraiser tonight and don’t have enough time. We have a new puppy coming on Friday so I spent some time puppy proofing.
I like the NYT feature but clearly my life isn’t that interesting!
Woke up at 8, dozed till 9. (I go to bed at 2 am.) Made coffee and drank it while reading the local paper and checking a few sites on the internet. Showered. Made breakfast and ate it while reading the first section and the Style section of the Sunday NYT. Wrestled with three yards of canvas in preparation for a sewing project. I need to eat something before water aerobics at 3:30. Home about 5. Maybe make some chicken for dinner. Read the rest of what interests me in the Times. Watch taped CBS Sunday Morning and maybe some baseball. Kid left for work at about 2:30. Husband is doing whatever he does in the basement or outside.
OMGosh, it’s 3:45 and I am still not dressed and eating a bowl of cereal. Just finished a book about Sandra Day O’Connor though
I need to change my screen name since it’s not appro anymore. ?
@busyparent You can’t change it. That’s one thing about CC…
Now that I’m retired, I don’t know what day it is (or care). They all run together, no such thing as a weekend. This week, however, we’re spending time with friends at their cottage on an island in Maine. DH and I got up early this morning, took the ferry to the mainland, and drove up to Portland to meet and have breakfast with one of my favorite CC posters. We had a fantastic time and could have chatted indefinitely. From there, DH and I wandered around the wharf area in and out of little shops. We stopped at the Standard Baking Company (recommended by our CC friend) for some coffee and wonderful pastries, then we headed over to Harbor Fish to pick up lobsters for dinner. We took the ferry back to the island where we’re watching the sun lower in the sky over the lake while we enjoy G&Ts as DH preps the lobster pot and fixings. Maine: The way life should be. 
Sleep in. Late morning till around noon with coffee and NYT. In the summer I do this on the deck.
The rest of the day: as little as possible. In the summer, gardening.
Evening: rotisserie chicken from Costco (hubby does the shopping) and a TV movie/binging.
Yes. I love Sundays.
Mine don’t have too much of a pattern. Sometimes we go to the church were our daughter is Interim Rector. If we go to our church we usually go to the 6 pm service. In the morning we get up and I run and my husband does a bike ride if it isn’t winter. If it’s winter, we don’t have to do all that as early. We have to get the dogs out first thing and get all the critters fed. I usually drive somewhere to run on the weekend days since I run from the house during the week. During the day I don’t do a lot and my husband mows or fixes things. I might go over to the pool in our neighborhood community. I used to go to the mall sometimes, but I don’t seem to like the mall anymore. I read the Sunday paper after I run in the morning and drink my iced tea. When my husband gets back from his bike ride he makes us breakfast. Today I’ve had college baseball to watch. My Sundays aren’t too exciting, I guess.
Our Sundays do not have any specific schedules, Today, we spent about 2 hours ripping out blackberries on city land so the blasted invaders would not overtake the trail we like so much. Kid texted that she would like to meet for dinner… so we are going out to dinner instead of grilling something and eating on the deck.
Shower
Read paper
Assorted websites
Crossword puzzles [NYT, Universal, WaPo]
Whatever work did not get done M-Sa
Iron my shirts for the next week
Make some soup/chili/whatever for the next week
I love Sunday …
“Iron my shirts for the next week”
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We all live very charmed lives.
We have no regular schedule either.
Today
Up at 8 after an hour of reading and relaxing in bed
Time with the dog, brain puzzles, and CC
Sporting event
Family dinner
wake up breakfast, computer time,
leave at 10:30 for cat shelter.
Volunteer for adoptions until 4
come home and either walk, visit a friend,
dinner (family dinner when a kid or two is home)
watch junk TV