The Sunday Afternoon Blahs...

It's Sunday. Which means I have been gone from my house more already today than I probably will be gone total for the rest of the week. And, it means I'm a single-mom for the next four days (unless the kids get to stay up "late" to see Daddy when he gets home from work a night or two). And, it pretty much means I'm bored and want to lay on the couch all afternoon (what else are Sundays good for) and read a book or watch movies (or just Gilmore Girls - my favorite time-killing addiction). But, I have these two little things called kids. They don't like it so much when Mommy vegges all afternoon. And, since I used their naptime to update my coupon database and check email and Facebook and whatnot, my opportunity to veg has pretty much been eliminated. They now have control of the TV, and I doubt they'd like it if Mommy disappeared for awhile to her room to read (or nap, or watch a movie, etc). They tend to like to know where Mommy is. I often hear panic cries of distress when I "forget" to tell Jenny where I'm going to be in the house if I'm not in the same room as where she last saw me - especially if I go outside or behind a closed door without telling her.

Jenny has the serious case of the munchies today. She went through two helpings of pretzels this morning during Church (and would have eaten more if the nursery worker had let her), came home and had lunch, woke up from her nap requesting a snack (which I didn't give her), and now's she asking for some "mini-wheats today". That child can eat!

Anyways... where was I? Oh yes, back to the dulldrums that are Sunday afternoons. Why is it that I think Sunday afternoons should be so lazy? I think it's because I grew up with Sunday afternoon being the one time of the week that everybody was home and that everybody was napping (even Mom & Dad). We would always come home from Church exhausted and then have to recoup for the evening service/youth group/etc. It was always the time of the week where we all crashed in front of the TV (football, baseball, etc) and dozed. So, now, all I want to do on Sunday afternoons is crash in front of the TV and watch something other than children's programming.

Q4U: What are your Sunday afternoons like? Is it a time to crash and re-energize? It is a time to get things done around the house that you aren't able to get done during the rest of the week? Do you have a special family time? Do you have to work? I'd love to hear what Sunday afternoon looks like for the rest of the world. Am I alone in wanting a veg time?