What's your daily routine ...

6am-ish - up, breakfast and cuppa, yell at son to get out of bed, make his flask while he’s in the shower.
7am-ish - son leaves for work, yell at daughter to get out of bed. Put washer on, have a coffee and cig while daughter’s in the shower.
7.30am-ish - yell at mr troo to get out of bed, log on to MSE.
8am-ish – mr and miss troo leave for work and school, put another load in the washer, I have another coffee while browsing then off for a shower.
9.30am-ish leave for work.
Home by 3pm at the latest, it’s usually earlier and very occasionally a bit later.
I might make a cake, while it’s baking I’ll hoover round and dust, some days I clean out the animals.
I try to FLY half a room a day, I go to Moggins’ threads for inspiration (thanks M).
When I cook tea I make at least 4 times what I need and freeze the rest, when I have lazy days I know there’s always food in the freezer that’s ready to eat.
I clean the shower while I’m in it and swish round the sink and toilet every day so it’s never a big effort to clean the bathroom.
I try to iron as soon as the clothes are dry so I don’t have a big pile to wade through (doesn’t always work out like that, but mostly it does).
The kitchen is cleaned as I go so no effort there.
The kids are 15 and 16 so they have to sort their own rooms out – they usually don’t but that’s their problem, they have to sleep in the mess, not me
In between all of this I pop in here a few times a day – if I don’t I end up missing something and everyone’s always got a lot to say :rotfl:

Here's my typical routine

7am Drink cup of coffee Mrs MATH brings up

7 - 8am Empty DW and restack and put back on. Supervise kidz breakfasts/showers, pack lunch boxes and put washing machine on.

8 - 9am Tidy bedrooms, wipe down the kitchen, put washing on the airer and do prayer time with the kidz before walking to school

9 - 12am Empty DW, prepare kids lunches for the next day and refridgerate, start prep for evening meal, do paid2clicks, tidy downstairs, vac house and clean toilets/wipe bathrooms

12-1pm Have lunch listening to Jeremy Vine and surfing MSE. I do online banking during lunch too at this time.

1-3pm Do ironing from the day before and a 'special job' for the day ie gardening, window cleaning, de-cobwebbing, batch baking or some church or home paperwork. Walk to school.

3-6pm Supervise kidz homework, wash lunch boxes and prepare dinner

The evening in then mine after I have cleared away the dinner things and I lay the breakfast things out before bed.

For me it depends on the day as I work part time 2 1/2 days a week and the rest of the time I am a busy Mum to two aged 2 and 3.
On a Monday I am at home and its fairly relaxed:
7.30-9.15 kids awake, dressed and breakfasted and me showered
9.15 tidy kitchen devastation and get yeast going for bread
hang out washing that was put on timer night before
make packed lunch to take out
put bread on just as we leave
10.15 head out to kids swimming and stay out through lunch (packed)
2pm get home, LO down for sleep
take bread out
play with older one
4pm younger one up, go out of we are going out or have friends over or do errands
5.30pm -6.45pm - make tea for us all
get stuff in slow cooker for tomorrows tea
make something pie like for Wednesday tea
make all our lunches for tomorrow
6.45pm - 7.45pm kids bathed and to bed
7.45pm - 9pm - finish any of teas or lunches that still need making
put away laundry
tidy kitchen devasation
tidy playroom
9pm collapse on heap on sofa, sorf for far too long
11.30pm drag myself to bed and read

Tues and Weds
6.30 get up for work (Hubby gets kids up)
7.30am get to work
12.20-1.40 get older one form preschool, go home for lunch, drop off to nursery, back to work
5.25pm leave work, collect kids form nursery, get home
6.10-6.45 kids play, watch TV or eat
6.45 onwards - same as last night except we have to eat our dinner too at some point

Thurs
6.30am up
7.30am to work
12.30 leave work and collect from pre-school/nursery
rest of day same as Monday afternoon

Fri, Sat, Sun similar to Monday with the exception of not making 3 nights dinner in one go! There is a load of laundry most days and I do bread every day or two.
Friday morning is the gym and the weekly shop.
Saturday morning is LO swimming
Sunday morning church (creche and sunday School means I sit in church in peace for half an hour - bliss!).
Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun afternoons all free to go out and play or whatever.

And if reading that lot doesn't make you feel tired I don't know what will!
Its all one giant treadmill but I love it

Mrs_Cupier wrote:

Also want to say this seems a lovely friendly board - I've been lurking for a while.

:hello: Hello & welcome. Its good you've taken the plunge to post as long as you realise how much time you'll be spending on here now

I'm reading this thread and wondering if I need to set my alarm earlier

I'm not a morning person so its a case of all up at 7.30am, all washed or showered, all eat breakfast & all out by 8.15am. :rotfl:

I finish work at either 5pm or 6pm and then have to pick up the girls if hubby is on a late shift. I'm usually home by 6.45pm at the very latest.

Thing is, I'm not an evening person either so the jobs dont get done then either

Hmmmmm, maybe an extra 30-40 mins in the morning would do the trick?

Thanks. Still getting to grips with the smilies! No good with quotes at all, yet.

30-40 mins earlier might do it - although I've tried that and can't find a way of getting out of the bedroom and into the bathroom without waking the boys (short of shinning down the drainpipe....) and just starting the whole process earlier.

Ah well, another evening lost to the OS board - came on here at 9pm 'for a quick look'.