Part of Being Boss is finding a solid work-life balance. We talk about work a lot here on the podcast, so in today’s minisode, we’re sharing what our weekends are like and how we hold them as sacred space apart from the hustle.
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Kathleen Shannon 1:13
All right, what do you guys want to talk about today?
Caitlin Brehm 1:16
Well, obviously, with being boss, you guys talk a lot about work and how you manage your time at work. But part of being boss is living that boss life. So how about the off time?
Kathleen Shannon 1:28
What are your weekends like? Alright, some of you might already know, it's no secret that my weekends are 100% family time. In fact, I protect my weekends and my Friday nights like nothing else. So I'm always hanging out with my family. My sister, I used to always joke that not only do we work together during the week with braid, creative, but then we're hanging out with each other on Saturdays. So how it goes down for a typical weekend for me is that Fridays, my mom picks my son up from daycare, and takes them directly home with her and he spends the night with her. And sometimes she'll pick up another kid or two. Just you know, my nephews, my sister's kids. And so that gives me an opportunity opportunity to have a date night with my husband. And, um, that's a lot of fun. We usually go out to eat or go to a fancy restaurant and have some cocktails. And we'll sleep in will sleep all night without a child waking us up. So this actually started whenever Fox was one years old, because he was waking up six to eight times a night whenever he was one. These days. It's just once or twice a night and he's mostly in bed with me all night at this point like he'll wake up around one or two and come toddling in. Anyway, I get asleep all night in my own bed by myself or with Jeremy, but without a kid in between us. So that's nice. Then Saturday mornings, we're usually missing him like crazy by this point. So we'll grab some coffee and head over to my mom and dad's house. They live on a little pond. And it's really beautiful. And my brother is in town currently. So he's usually either on tour or living in another city. But right now, he's in town. And so it's all of us on the weekends doing puzzles together, we'll maybe have some afternoon beers, which feels scandalous. Day drinking just feels like a really big deal. At this point.
Emily Thompson 3:39
I'm actually learning that day drinking is how you have to do it. Like I can't drink late at night because then I will wake up in the middle that I like metabolizing so I have to drink earlier. It actually I think is your sister that taught me that.
Kathleen Shannon 3:52
Yeah. about some day drinking we just outed
Emily Thompson 3:55
out but adopting it totally works better than drinking at night.
Kathleen Shannon 4:02
So then we'll take Okay, so lately what we've been doing is hanging out my mom and dad's house, we'll have lunch there. We'll do a puzzle, we'll do something. And then and then we'll head back to my sisters from there. So you my sister live across the street from each other. And then at that point, me and my brother and sister will play the PlayStation together or just play video games so we might grab dinner. And lately me and my brother and sister have been recording a podcast project together. So just a little passion project where we're capturing some fun stories of our lives. So that's kind of what my weekends have looked like lately. Love it. That sounds super fun you Emily
Emily Thompson 4:46
um, mine I also protect pretty voraciously. However like I'm one of those people who will sometimes be like, you know what, I'll totally just like, you know, draft up this newsletter or whatever on Saturday and It'll be great. Nope, it never happens. Like I always get to Saturday, and like shit that can wait till Monday. So I do I do keep work out of the weekends very hardcore. And we always try to have one weekend day what we're doing or we're not leaving the house meaning I don't have to shower. I love having one weekend day when I don't have to give a shit what I look like. So I'm usually is that your mandatory lazy days? No, no, it's very rarely amazing story lazy day, which is a day where we do nothing, where we literally will just sit on the couch and watch TV to like recoup from a super busy time, I'll usually instead be doing yard work. So this is when we're like planning our plants, or just touching our plants. It's weird. Or just hanging out on the front porch, or mill prepping like doing things that need to be done around the house. But it doesn't matter what I look like for me to do it. So we always try to have one day where we're not going anywhere. I don't have to put on pants if I don't want to whatever it may be, so that we can get things done around the house. And then another day is usually used for just like errands and things we'll go grocery shopping, or
Kathleen Shannon 6:10
Okay, I have some questions, go for serious questions. So I get the grocery store and maybe even a little bit of gardening, and just general chores, but I always have these grand plans for special projects, like painting the bathroom, or reorganizing my closet, right? And just like writing that newsletter on a Saturday morning. I can't do it. I'm just so spent from work all week that I I feel like I don't have anything left to give. A lot of people have been asking me lately about even landscaping and I'm like, Listen, I'm just trying to keep a toddler alive, right?
Emily Thompson 6:50
No, I think so. It's funny that you said like painting the bathroom or whatever, because I I had david bring in the paint the other day, or like maybe two weekends ago, because I was going to spend my Saturday painting our bathroom, we have two rooms left in our house to paint. A bathroom was one of them. And I have to start with paying the trim first. And he brought it in and I didn't do it. Like I looked at it and I said you know what, this is not the day that this gets done. So it's still sitting in there needs to be done. So whenever it comes to big projects like that I'm right there with you. However yard work is not that for me whenever it comes to planning things are David's been doing a lot of mulching so he'll go get truckloads of multiple put it around. Like that doesn't feel like that to me. Like that's something that like gives me energy as opposed to draining a painting it there's not a painting does not give me energy whatsoever. So there are some things, there are some things that definitely get put aside, we tried, we do try to keep one day that's just chill. We're really just doing what we want to do. And if that's sitting all day on the porch and reading a book, then that's going to be yet but the other day is usually spent doing some of those things we don't necessarily want to do like laundry, laundry usually gets done on the weekend. Not something fun that we want to do, or grocery shopping or I can't even think of other things that we do just things out and about have to get ready for brunch. brunch is one of those things I have to get ready for though I really love doing it. I don't like the getting ready part. That's why I have a brunch hat.
Kathleen Shannon 8:28
Okay, another serious question. This is kind of more about balancing kids. And I don't know living your life. So maybe I'm just in a phase where foxes three. And even if I wanted to have a mandatory, lazy day, it's not happening because he's probably screaming at me to get him a yogurt or to go play in the park. God forbid, I'm just kidding, right? I love it. Actually, yesterday after school, he insisted that I take him to the park. And I dropped everything loaded him up in the wagon and went to the park and it was the best so I don't mind doing stuff like that. But at the same time, there's no just sitting on the couch all weekend. So I'm curious if cute kid if your kiddo ever is more demanding on you or your time than you'd like her to be? Absolutely. I feel so selfish saying it out loud. But you guys get me right.
Emily Thompson 9:27
Yeah, absolutely. And for sure. So Lily's definitely an age now. Where so we don't let her watch TV at all during the week. Like it just doesn't happen unless we're sitting down and watching it together. We have a couple of shows that we watch together. Sometimes I'll just want to watch a movie or something. But she doesn't otherwise does not watch TV during the week. Saturday and Sunday mornings is her TV time and that's when she can play her Minecraft or watch her TV shows or whatever it may be. And it starts at eight o'clock, and she's in there at eight o'clock on the.on the couch. She'll wait until eight And then she'll go in there. And that's her TV time. So now Thank you, baby Jesus. Lily does give David nice, pretty quiet weekend mornings, which is something we worked really hard to put into play. So think about that how you can start training him to do that as soon as possible. Because she will, she'll get up and we'll have like granola bars or cereal or whatever it she'll bore herself of a bowl of cereal while David and I are sort of slowly getting out of bed on Saturday on Sunday morning. So we'll get up usually make breakfast we always like go check our plants, we can like go walk the yard and stuff early in the morning while Lily is while Lily's watching TV or playing video games. But then usually by like 10 or 11. I'm telling her to turn it off and then I'm responsible for entertaining her to some extent. So we do try to set things up there a couple of neighborhood kids that she'll go play with, or having some fun activities for her having her involved and like doing whatever it is that we're doing outside. So for sure she is absolutely like a part of our ongoing or ongoing activities. But for us, for us like her being old enough to go turn on the TV on her own seriously changed our lives, changed our lives. And once I can have those couple of quiet hours in the morning, I'm okay with like dealing with the constant questioning and wanting to do things later in the day. So get him just get him a little bit older, well. Bottom of the refrigerator so he can go open over himself.
Kathleen Shannon 11:31
It was so funny. He actually does have his own pantry. That's lower. Love it its own snacks. Yep, he can turn on his iPad. You can find his shows on PBS on his iPad. I mean, right kind of is already set up. And he's already doing these things. most mornings.
Emily Thompson 11:53
I remember teaching Lily really earlier. I remember specifically on the weekend, or like, I guess Friday and Saturday night, David going into the kitchen and the refrigerator and putting a yogurt and a spoon at the bottom of the fiducial. All she had to do was open it up. And she would have her yogurt in her spoon right there ready to go and like a container of grapes. I think I think the more you can do that the happier everyone is for sure.
Kathleen Shannon 12:20
You know, and this isn't weekend so much. But more about just having kids and having a business. It's like a whole other layer of scheduling, and planning and reacting and being proactive.
Emily Thompson 12:36
I Oh no, mostly reactive. I feel like with your life and your business you can you can be as proactive as you are like smart and willing enough to be with kids. There's no amount of smart and willing that will make you proactive, at least not for everything. So I agree, I think for us like just routines. And things help as much as possible, but also just never expecting that they'll go as planned and then you're not surprised when they don't.
Kathleen Shannon 13:06
And I think that's a good thing about kind of doing the same thing every weekend and having a reliable plan, which does involve my mom and dad taking care of my kid for me for part of that. Even at my mom and dad's house while I'm there, it really does take a village I've got my brother and sister and my nephews and my mom and dad and Fox is fully entertained by all of the people that I love and that love him and my life. So it feels really special and good. And I'm certainly going to miss that if we do end up moving. But I think I'm gonna have to get a lot more of these systems in place where it is just the three of us, and what that looks like moving forward. If we move who knows.
Emily Thompson 13:51
I look forward to seeing what that looks like.
Kathleen Shannon 13:53
I know a lot of you I should just mention this because a lot of people have been asking because I've mentioned it enough time. So I'll update you guys on where we're at with moving. My husband is still in school for being a self driving car engineer and he's putting feelers out. He's blogging about it. And I have no doubt that we'll be moving by the end of the year. So that's the goal. We don't know when or where no details are hammered out but it'll happen if when it happens.
Kathleen Shannon 14:26
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Emily Thompson 15:01
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