Weekends Together
What We Actually Do on a Rainy Weekend We Can’t Leave
When the whole weekend gets rained out and every outdoor plan falls apart, we have settled into a rhythm that works better than most of the trips we canceled.
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Author · Meredith Solberg
Meredith Solberg writes about the days her family spends together, which is a nicer way of saying she writes about four people trying to be in the same room at the same time. Most of what is here started as a week that did not go to plan.
The Tablet in the Car: A Compromise, Not a Defeat
I used to feel guilty every time the tablet came out for a car ride. Here is why we stopped treating it…
The Week We Let the Kids Plan the Whole Dinner Menu
We handed the dinner planning over to our kids for one week to see what would happen. It was messier than we…
The Years We Skipped the Big Party
For two years we did not throw a birthday party at all, and I worried it would matter more than it did.
The Last Time I Carried Him and I Didn’t Know It
There is no announcement when a habit ends for good. One day you are carrying your kid up the stairs, and then…
Who Cooks Tonight: How We Split Up Dinner Without Keeping Score
We spent a long time trading dinner duty by accident instead of on purpose. Here is what changed when we finally talked…
The Saturday We Did Not Plan Anything
We stopped filling every Saturday with errands and activities, and the empty stretch in the middle of the day turned into the…
When Our Kids Want Completely Different Kinds of Weekends
One of our kids wants a full, busy weekend and the other wants to stay home and do nothing, and we spent…
Letting the Holidays Be Ordinary Some Years
Some years hold more energy for the holidays than others, and we have stopped pretending every year has to look the same.
The Driveway Chalk Tradition Nobody Planned
A leftover box of sidewalk chalk turned into a Sunday ritual we never wrote down anywhere but everyone in this house knows…