The Weekend

I don’t generally get bothered about whether it is the week or the weekend.

Both the boys love going to school, I love working from home, and having Mr L at home for the weekend is always lovely but we also all enjoy our weeks as well.

We are not a family that are like its the weekend and all dread a Monday morning.

But I have to say with this new style of remote learning we are all craving the weekend when it arrives.

I think more than anything it is the mixture of the roles, having to be parent and teacher and child and student is hard and it is draining.

If I am totally honest having one child in secondary and one in primary is hard work. The work they are both doing is so far apart, the systems they are working on are so different and trying to make sure you are in the right head for each one is draining.

There are days where I have just been on the stairs for hours, as one is upstairs and one is downstairs so that they don’t interfere with each other.

And neither of them complain to be honest.

They are both blooming amazing and both get on with the work that is set, put their heads down and work through it to their best ability.

Which is all we would ever ask from them.

But it is draining.

There is no relief.

The days role into one, there is no socialising, none of the normal stuff.

As it is for all of us.

But the blurring of the lines we all find hard.

And that is the nicest thing about the weekend.

There are no routines, we have literally chucked them out of the window for the weekends.

There are no school related things.

Reading doesn’t happen unless they want too.

There is nothing forced on them.

They need a break and I, too need a break.

The house needs to be home, rather than some very bizarre school that has a bit of a rubbish teacher at times.

It needs to be their sanctuary and their place they can chill and just be.

We can’t go out like we used to.

We really wouldn’t spend much time at all at home on a weekend.

But we can take all the pressure off.

And that’s what we do.

There is no time to have to be awake, there is no time to be dressed, there is no set time for screens etc.

It is just time to recharge.

To chill and time to be kids again.

And to get that normality of what their home is.

A time and a place not to think about school, or work or learning full stop.

It has become a time I really enjoy and they do too.

A time for them to refocus and totally chill out.

The weekends have become so special to me and to us as a family, that I really don’t like it when they are coming to an end now.

I love having that stress free time.

I love the calm feeling of a weekend.

The chilled feeling and the not having to worry vibe that we all have.

The weekends are our safe time in all this madness right now!