How to not live just for the weekend

I was recently reading through comments from another post in this sub and someone brought up a really good point. They mentioned “that if you’re living for the weekend then you are missing out on 5/7 of your life.”

I have had this thought several times throughout adulthood, and I was wondering if any of you had any advice for to how to NOT live for the weekend? Especially when raising a family, working full time, running a household (cooking, cleaning, maintenance), and having fairly strict routines.

For example, I (32F) live with my husband (29M) and our pre-teen daughter. My husband works 6 days a week, 13 hour shift. I work 5 days a week, but commute our daughter 40 minutes to school every morning and 40 minutes home. Our kiddo also has autism spectrum disorder and type 1 diabetes which means routine is imperative in our household. Between all the things we HAVE to do in our daily lives including just trying to keep up with hygiene, it feels really hard to fit anything into our weekly schedule besides just resting for the next day until we get more free time on the weekend. I would really love to maximize the time we have to truly live. Any thoughts or words of advice?