Sunday night
11th February 2008
Day 11: 29 Days of the Everyday
Did you feel how cold it was yesterday? I walked Spencer last night around 8 p.m., and I’ve never seen his little stubby legs move so fast without running. I’m not joking that my face hurt by the time our 8-minute walk run to the end of the street and back was over.
I stumbled (fogged glasses) inside and demanded a fire.
Eric obliged. Because he’s awesome like that. Also, there is something macho, rather cave man, about arranging paper and wood and burning them. My husband takes great pride in his fires. I think it’s all he can do not to stand up and beat his fists on his chest.
(He may have done this once. But he’d kill me for telling you.)
And then we enjoyed a lovely, toasty night, taking turns sitting in front of the fireplace until our backs and butts were burning. I read my book (so good — thanks C.P.!) and Eric spent two hours sanding and gluing two pieces of plastic I’m so not kidding worked on his latest model airplane. Oh, and we ate chocolate (Easter Cream Eggs for Eric, Reece Peanut Butter Valentine’s Day hearts for me).
T’was a perfect way to end the weekend.
Sunday nights, pre-Lucy when I used to work outside of the house, were killer. By noon, I was crusty and grumpy at the prospect of another Monday and the end of our precious family time over. It used to ruin the end of each and every weekend.
Then I read that these feelings can be very common, especially if you are struggling at your job. One suggested solution was to make Sunday night a highlight of your weekend: Plan something you really enjoy (for us: visit with family, watch a movie). The goal is to help east the transition into the work week and make the end of the weekend less stressful with something exciting.
Two+ years later, and we still do this. Once a month we go to my father-in-law’s for dinner with Uncle Stinky and Auntie Jenni. The other Sundays we always have a nice dinner and dessert. Eric always has a Sunday evening glass of scotch. I never plan on doing anything that can’t be done from the couch (movie, painting my toenails, reading, crafts).
It’s one of the best practices we’ve adopted. Do you do anything similar?
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A glass of scotch? How Ron Burgandy of him.
He drinks it out of a heavy crystal tumbler, too!
We have family dinners on Sundays, and since we’ve moved they always seem to be at our house now. I love making the roast beef, many types of veggies (the best being the ones covered in my homemade cheese sauce), and of course old fashion English Yorkshire Puddings!! My favourite!!!
We usually have a dessert also, what the heck we’ve been good all week so why not end it on a good note!!
What a great idea! We will definitely institute this in our family. Sometimes we are so tired by Sunday night from running around on the weekend that we usually flake out on the couch. But having a nice end to the weekend would definitely cap it off.
On Sundays I cook a rather large dinner and any of the kids that find themselves with the time pop in for a visit and some of Mom’s home cookin’. With C in college a 90 minute drive away, S living 90 mins the other direction, R usually working a second job on Sundays, it is usually J and the Peach who are present. I’ll send a microwavable plate/bowl with S to work for his dinner break whenever he drops the GloWorm off during the week. I’ll drop by R’s job one day during the week and surprise him with a care pkg. that can either be his lunch that day or dinner. I enjoy doing that and it’s been my routine for the last 5 years.
Yes!! We have dinner with our family most Sunday nights and then after Jacob goes to bed we watch a bunch of shows on Tivo that we saved from the week before or sometimes it’s a movie. It’s pretty relaxing.