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What would she do??? By the wonderful Grace Farris.
P.S. Mom voices and wise words.
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Weekend Mom is turning over her vegetable garden, going to a local library for Silent Book Club and making chicken tacos for dinner.
I’ll tell you what this weekend mom is doing. She is hearing “everything “ with her new hearing aids! Can’t begin to tell you how great it is to hear things that I wasn’t aware that I wasn’t hearing.
Hell yeah you are! I’m thrilled for you!
I feel like I totally resonate with the pose of this mom. I would erase what the kid is saying, insert my teen daughter and she would say, “it’s ok, mama, it’s your hormones/menopause.”
Hahahaha! Yes! I find that I mention perimenopause in conversation at work, at home, or in any other situation at least once a day. At least my kids will grow up knowing about and not first hear about it as I did when I was in my early 40s!
Well, weekend Nana here and we’ll have our 8yo grandson until Sunday evening. Plans include a new graphic novel for him to read with my book light, a movie at the cinema, loads of fruit cut and waiting for him – well for all of us…Legos, Play Doh, a bath for as long as he wants, trail walking and the highlight for him, going through my “treasure drawer” looking at everything with 173 questions that all get answered on the first ask, which is all he really wants.
It’s been an emotional few days as we just learned they may be moving from an hour away from us to many states away. No firm plans set but augh. We’ll see … this is the grandson who asks to stay with us for months and always brings up that our home is really his home, too, right, Nana? “Can’t I just stay until spring,” he asks after a few days here at Christmas… So I’m going to make sure that we are here for him as much as we can and just see where their road leads.
Wow, you really are an A++ Nana. I hope to be like you when I grow up <3
Love this account and will make a big bowl of cut fruit this weekend!
Don’t you just cherish them? My 16yo granddaughter calls our house “her paradise”. ☺️
This is beautiful. I want to be this Nana too one day!!!
Awww, Nana, I hope he doesn”t move far. I can hear how much you love him.
Thank you Nana and thank you all grown ups who answer “173 questions on the first ask” – that is all my 8 year old really wants.
Yesterday, in the 2 mins that i was brushing my teeth he asked me to explain “fights yellow marks and white stains”, the difference between a cathedral and a church, a logistical question, and why wasn’t I answering his questions.
Love the trash picker in her purse! This weekend my mom is taking my kid to Legoland and my husband and I are going on a weekend trip to Joshua Tree. I’m bringing my tarot cards and a sketch book and I’m going to great every desert flower like a long lost friend.
I registered that as a stethoscope? It led me to appreciate the “barely off the clock” feeling I get when the kids have transitioned to weekend mom mode (library!, pizza night!) and my work list still feels too long.
I believe it’s a stethoscope because Grace Farris is a doctor, which totally tickles me because we know her as a cartoonist. It’s like medicine is her hidden, super hero profession.
Lol I am the opposite. Weekday mom squeezes in a walk after lunchtime and feels no guilt about sending her child to school after care. Weekend mom feels all the pressure to play, entertain, clean, chaperone, cook, errand, and visit aging parents.
This reminds me so much of my sweet, gentle tween. This weekend mom is going to an Inter Miami/Rapids soccer game which is my 9 year old’s birthday gift. He can’t play in his own soccer game tomorrow because he got stitches in his knee, so I’m glad there’s something to cheer him up.
Weekend Lady here… is arriving in Paris at the gare de Lyon… going out for dinner and visiting a couple of exhibitions tomorrow.
Bon week-end everybody :)
This weekend mom is sending her kids and husband to visit his parents while she spends a glorious week at home. Working, watching tv, hanging with the girls. So sad I don’t have enough PTO to join (not!)
Omg, so jealous!!!
This “Weekend Mom” is planning a lie-in on Saturday morning. Grace, this comic resonated so deeply with me today. So simple, and absolutely on the money.
Here for the Austin FC love from a fellow Austinite! Somos Verdes!
Gosh, I want a huge print of this to put up as a reminder to myself!
Not a mom, but this Weekend Lady is planning to go for a walk to see the sunset tonight, walk through her town’s green fest tomorrow and look at plants (maybe buy one or two?), and she *might* take a Sunday afternoon nap! Love this gentle reminder from a wise kid to nourish, connect, and rest.
Weekend Mom is taking her son out for Indian food and then reading a book with dog snuggles. Whew, Wisconsin got hit with violent storms all week.
Celeste, I am in Wisconsin, too. More coming today. I feel you!
And more today…Southern MN is getting nailed again right now and it’s headed your way. Hoping it fizzles!!!
I know it’s just a comic…and I love Grace’s work…AND I also feel deep sadness when I read things like “everything” is (insert negative word here). Just earlier today I had to turn off a podcast I enjoy because the content was “everyone” is burnt out and overwhelmed. I know it’s just semantics, but words do matter, and I think it’s really important for us to focus on the story we are telling ourselves day in and day out. There is SO much good and beauty out there – let’s all be weekend mom every day! Put down your phone to play and spend time with your people Stop scrolling and get outside. Stay off the news and do something that brings you joy. This narrative of “everything is a dumpster fire” is SO disheartening, and I see it being perpetuated everywhere which is really sad.
Yeah I think people cope and find honesty amidst coping in really different ways. Many (all?) of us just trying to bear with, witness, create meaning with our own and the world’s suffering and participate in radical change that could abate that suffering. So I think facing that suffering and the fact that it’s gonna be a long haul to remedy the causes necessarily goes through bleak periods that feel total. But it has to *feel* total for the people feeling it, and then in response to that totality, new imaginings can come. That’s what I feel at any rate… I think of the Stanley Kunitz lines that are something like “it is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn” or the camoghne Felix poem “born. Living. Will. Die”
But maybe that’s the point of the comic?
Nah. People are permitted to feel what they feel. The economy’s bad, our national leadership is terrible and inexperienced – I have a feeling things will lighten after midterms/2028.
You realize you went the same direction with “everywhere “ though, right?
Thank you for this! I agree. And saying “everything” is terrible is just surrendering to the bad and our lives are more important than that. I refuse to believe that my one wild and precious life will be spent with everything being terrible and everyone being burnt out. We all deserve more than that. Let’s believe it and make it happen rather the giving in. Have a great and varied weekend, everyone! Good things will happen, bad things will happen, and we’ll keep striving for better for all! <3
I understand why you feel this way. My perspective is different, though. “Everything” is validating all of us who feel it is coming at us from multiple parts of life. It’s a “we who feel this way are all in this together” and a relief to know that we’re not alone in feeling this way.
The way I read it, the fact that she’s using the “everything” framing shows that she’s spiraling… which I feel a lot of people can relate to. A therapist friend recently told me he encourages clients to look for the things that ARE working, that ARE good. Because when you look for them, you start to see them.
I can understand feeling this way, it feels pervasive the anxiety/fear/overwhelm and rightly so, there are so many hard and terrible things happening, conflict, genocide, fascism, inequality, the list goes on. I do think that the tech companies that keep us scrolling have a vested interest in keeping people overwhelmed, on their phones and apathetic, many of them are funding/abetting our corrupt authoritarian government. I also feel cognizant of how we get swept up in group think with social media and that feels bad too. This world breaks my heart every day and it also amazes me in its beauty, a both things can be true situation. The things that have helped me the most recently are markedly reducing my use of social media, getting involved in local community volunteering/activism and trying to be present to notice the beauty, connecting with people in real life. We are all doing the best we can. I love what Chani Nicholas always says- We are the ones we have been waiting for.
Perfect timing on this comic – I find myself spiraling this morning, and all I want to do this weekend is take a quiet walk in the woods by a lake in the sunshine! “Weekend Mom Plans” to the rescue!
Or spanish…
well noted!!!!
Yes, looks to me like an Austin FC shirt. Let’s go green!
Oh my… how sweet is his t-shirt, with Portuguese writing on it… kisses from Brazil…………..
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