What's your daily routine ...

Fay

My usual routine has been:
6.40am get up, go and do b/f lunch for the day, put a load of washing on
7am-shower, wash hair, quick bathroom clean, then dry hair and have a quick read of MSE whilst straigntening my hair.
8am-get dressed and put washing out on line
8.15am leave for work, start at 8.30
5pm finish work, come home get changed, get washing in and go gym
6.30-7pm get home, put gym gear into wash and have a shower
8pm put dinner on to cook, hoover and polish living room & dining room, give kitchen a quick blast
8.30-9pm eat dinner (too late I know, but only chance)
10.30 collapse into bed ready to do it all over again

Oh I also try to find time to do some phd.

Weekends I clean the house thoroughly on friday night or saturday morning, depends. Do food shopping, any batch cooking I can etc and sunday is my phd day.

But I start back to uni and a new job next week and my travelling time is going to be 1+hour, so I will be getting up and going to the gym for 6am to try and fit everything in still. Oh, the course I am starting is clinical psychology which means I will be doing my phd and another doctorate, plus working 3 full days a week in different clinical placements. Where do we find the time or the energy?

MimiF

Hazzie 123, Brilliant !!!! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

TNG

0630 - alarm (snooze button)
0640 - alarm (snooze button)
0650 - up! Shake DS1 and put kettle & radio on
0700 - Shake DS1 again (I am his snooze button!) - do ablutions. Iron shirt for DS1 if CBA the night before
0715 - Shout at DS1, shake DS2. More coffee for me and the now risen Mrs TNG
0720 - make packed lunch for DS2. Check that DS1 has bag packed correctly.
0725 - breakfast for DS1 (some grilled bread product)
0735 - Shout at DS2 to get up.
0745 - DS1 departs for school :T
0750 - dress and shave
0800 - depart for work, leaving Mrs TNG to dress and throw DS2 out of door
1800 - return home. Empty TD, transfer WM to TD, load DW, fold clothes from TD (and put away sometimes)
1830 - pick up DS2 from CM
1840 - make snack for DS1&2
1850 - attempt to fly. Hotspots, surfaces, general tidy and BAFing
1930 - start dinner or bake with DS1 and 2 (this has only happened TWICE)
2000 - coax DS1 into jamas. Get DS1 to sort out bag for tomorrow - end up 'helping' i.e. doing it for him
2030 - take DS1 to bed, get DS2 in to jamas
2100 - Get DS1 to bed
2130 - Eat aforementioned dinner with the now returned Mrs TNG, washed down with a fine tinobeer.

Weekends - same but without the work bit......

tru

stefejb wrote:

Here is my routine:-
6am - alarm goes off - hit snooze
6.10 - hit snooze
6.20 - hit snooze
6.30 - shout "oh my god!" and jump out of bed - hang laundry - put washing up from last night away - start washing machine - make coffee - have cig and coffee - look at time - shout "oh my god!" again

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

hex2

6am Woken up by two small boys (sometimes later, often much earlier)
Empty DW, fill WM, let dogs out, give cats breakfast, apply nose peg, change two nappies and dress boys. Drink at least 3 cups of tea.
feed children
7.15am send boys to wake daddy. Involves lots of flashinglights and shouting of male chicken a doodle doo much to his intense pleasure.
Make dh packup while he walks the dog.
7.40am snotty kisses for daddy as he escapes to work
(7.41am laptop on, ignore children till 4pm :rotfl: )
9am WM into drier, 2nd load if needed. Quick tidy of kitchen and bathroom, plan tea
12 Feed children, let dogs out. Tidy morning mess
4pm Emergency tidy and vac before daddy comes home, start preparing tea
5pm Release children from their cages ready for the return of daddy
5.30 Welcome home OH, hand over children, provide him with drink and get on with tea.
6.30 bath and bed for boys.
feed animals so OH can take them out, tidy living room, vac again if needed, fill dishwasher,
7.00 watch emmerdale with a nice red stripe, followed by finishing off anything that needs doing and then have a nice evening talking with OH without feeling that I am surrounded by mess.
10.00 swish and swipe bathroom and kitchen. Shine sink, second fill of dw if needed so I come down to a clean kitchen. Sort next day clothes for all. Milk for ds2. Bath and bed for adults

Between 6am and 6.30pm add lots of short bursts of tidying, nappy changing, setting up of train tracks and castles, watching chitty chitty bang bang and thomas tank engine at least once each, baking yet more buns, making small boy snacks, saying 'no' a depressing number of times etc.

It works well for us and we are all happy with it. I work two days which makes a nice break from children and keeps my career alive, and they have an extra half day in nursery so I can do a deep clean once a week. We thought very hard when we had ds1 and decided that this was the best way to make sure that that there was still 'us' as well as family.

Kelinik

Wake up around 7am. My alarm doesn't actually go off until 7.20 but the girls have normally disturbed me before then by hushing each other whilst playing all their musical toys simultaneously! Its usually at this point I scold myself for not managing to get to bed earlier the night before, doubly so as I mooch to the bathroom and catch sight of myself in the mirror! :eek:

7-8.45am Get me and both kids washed, dressed etc, make all beds, sort washing to take down, do kids hair, put my face on. Hubby leaves before 8am. Go downstairs. Get kids breakfast, put washing on, check dinner chart and get bits out of freezer if required, unload dishwasher, pack lunch boxes, check on all my non-human babies and then sit and have a look through emails/forums with a banana and cup of tea whilst kids eat and get ready to go.

8.45am Take girls to school

The morning is then different depending on what day it is. Twice a week I go to 'work' at DD2's old pre-school until just after midday, then straight from there to pick her up from school. The other three mornings I divide between my DIY (am renovating our house) and my website which still needs tons of work.

12.15-12.45pm Pick up DD2 from school.

12.45-3pm I have lunch when I've helped little one change out of her uniform. She normally sits with me and tells me what she did during the morning as she has already eaten at school. The next couple of ours is spent on the house, the following divided between the 5 days (DD2 'helps' me) - all cleaning, ironing, hoovering, batch cooking/baking, cage cleaning, meal planning (including shopping lists etc), filing, change beds/towels, sewing, anti-cluttering, tending veggie patch (although fallen behind on this just now! ) etc etc and so forth.

3-3.20 ish Pick up DD1.

3.20-7pm After this I have a cup of tea and go through my emails/forums again and then its play a game with the girls and cont with above until 5pm when I start the kids dinner and make the lunches for the next day.

Once kids have eaten I clear up whilst they go and tidy their playroom, then its bath/shower and pj time, followed by reward chart (they get a sticker a day for a tidy playroom, which gets converted into 5p's on a friday) and a bedtime story. Hubby gets in.

7-8pm Shower and do mine and Dh's dinner. Eat.

Once dinner is cleared away the rest of the evening is spent on my animals. Spot clean cages as needed, change water for all, have a play with each lot in turn and feed as they get 'put to bed'. The mice have a playpen on an old towel for free-range and have 'sittings' playing in it as I have an old single male with a history of aggression towards other meeces, a pair of foster boys, a group of 6 girls and a pair of girls in quarantine non of who can meet for obvious reasons! Once the mice have all had their turn I clear up the playpen and toys and it's the ratties turn. This is one of my favourite times of day as once they are out and I've tidied their cage (changed their litter tray etc) I can flop on the sofa with a cup of tea whilst the three of them free range round the living room. They invariably each come up on my lap to say hello at some point and after about an hour of mischief they get put to bed with their dinner, which is usually a small amount of whatever we ate and a fresh bowl of dry mix.

Once the rats are back I load the diswasher and put it on, have a final once over my email/forums and go up to bed where I normally get totally lost in a book until the small hours whilst hubby and the kids all sleep.

Weekends are spent on errands, visiting family and spending time with the kids. Sadly sunday dinner is reallt he only one where its possible for us to all eat together so we like making a 'thing' of it and have a good natter all four of us, or more if people are round.

I think I'm very fortunate in that I'm primarily working for myself so am able to reschedule my day to fit round ill kids/animals, school plays/parents meetings/walk round afternoons (which seem to get more and more often!) commitee meetings and whatever else crops up. Once DD2 is at school full time I also plan to start learning to drive (again! ) and add Thursday afternoons to my sessions at pre-school as this is when they run their creche for parents on courses and have 0-3 yrs in, so I can get my baby fix! I also hope I'll make quicker progress on the house and website as my afternoon jobs shouldn't take so long without littlely.

Whilst I'd never claim to work any harder than any other Mum the one thing that really gets my goat is the amount of times I've been asked if I'm 'going back to work' when DD2 starts school as though all I do all day is sit on my bum watching telly! :mad:

sans_2

6:15am alarm, snooze until 6:30am
6:30am get up, shower, take any Ebay items I have sold to parents house for them to post for me etc
7:00am wake son (2)up, put his jacket on
7:05am leave house go round to parents to drop son off and have my breakfast
7:20am leave parents house and drive to bus station
7:30-7:30 get bus into town for work
8:20-8:30 get on another bus to work
8:45 – 5:00 at work
5:00 – 5:10 catch bus into main part of town to walk to another bus stop
5:20 –catch bus back to bus station
6:15 – 6:30 pm – drive from bus station back to parents to collect son
6:45pm – unload anything I have taken home from parents, read mail, pick up any dirty clothes plates left upstairs from night before
7:00 – 7:30pm have dinner made by husband
7:30pm – 9:00pm do dishes, make up milk, put on WM (every second day), hang washing up, get myself and son ready for bed, empty bathroom bin, kitchen bin, pick up any mess in living room, hoover (at least every second day or more often if necessary), hang up any wet washing, organise anything for the following day
9:00 – 11:30pm sit in bed doing my Ebay stuff if I am selling anything on Ebay, surf net and watch tv

Saturday – Sunday get up between 7:00-9:30am – depends, do more housework, go to shops, recycle glass/ plastic carrier bags. Maybe go out to the cinema/ dinner on a Saturday night if there is a good film, look through and revise to do lists, write/ make cards for any birthdays, new house, baby’s, wrap up presents. Catch up with any mail.

wishingonastar_3

6am - alarm goes off and i'm up,
6.10 first coffee made, wake up dd, while shouting repeatedly to make sure she gets up, make brekkie,
6.20 eat breakfast
6.40 both in bathroom for wash & teeth
6.50 dd gets dressed and makes her bed(takes twice as long when your 10) i wash brekkie pots and make another coffee
7.00 me get dressed, make bed
7.05 do both our hair
7.10 out to work via paper shop
7.30 at work with dd in tow
8.10 take dd to school
8.30 back at work
4.30 finish work, collect dd from asc
5pm home and make tea
5.35 sacred time eat tea and watch neighbours
5.58 take pots through get pudding,
6.00 watch home and away (yes we are sad, lol)
6.25 i do washing up, dd packs her pack lunch for tomorrow
6.40 washing away, or stacked for ironing
6.50 set egg timer for 10 min tidy up, we just whizz through putting stuff away
7.00 dd shower, then jammas on
7.20 dd does homework if any, or else reads or plays
8.00 dd goes to bed
8.05 i do a room a night dustering & vaccing
8.45 quarter of an hour peace with a brew
9.00 ironing if something on tv worth watching, or else baking, or soimething for an hour
10.00 shower & bed.

Penny-Pincher!!

This is a good day if feeling well and OH helps me:o

6-6.30:Get up, put laptop on, make pot of tea, put WM on and clean toilet. I take some meds. Check emails, go on MSE and check Ebay. Look at my list for the day.
6.30-7.00-DD/OH gets up and shower/dressed, we have breakie together. OH has his pint of coffee and DD her milk or OJ. Stuff put in DW. Take more meds.
7-7.40-DD makes sure she has bag ready, drink and snack. OH hangs washing out and tidies kitchen. I straighten lounge. DD does her room, OH makes our bed. Teeth cleaned. DD dressed and hair done.
7.40-OH takes DD to school. Sort any post and file etc. If feeling OK, wash, teeth and get dressed. Put another washload on if needed. Put DW on if needed.
8.10-9.00-OH back from dropping DD at school. If not feeling good, OH will help me bathe and dress (lovely for him..lol). Depending on menu for the evening some of dinner can be prepared especially if in SC. OH hangs washing out if another has been put on. Have another tea/coffee. Have my second breakie-biccies or cake.
09.00-2.40-Made up of numerous hospital appointments, shopping, things done around the house, studying, reading, phonecalls, finishing dinner, lunch, more tea/coffee/cakes, GP, post office, cleaning, emptying DW, BM on, sorting stuff out etc.
2.40-Collect DD from school
3.10-5.00-DD homework. DD showers and does her hair. DD reads to us from her chosen book. Dinner put on. Catch up on emails.
5.00-5.30-Dinner and talk about day. Kitchen tidied and DW loaded. Take more meds.
5.30-7.30-Family time. Check DD's HW, watch some TV (we try and be constructive here and watch some National Geographic..lol)...more like Disney channel:rolleyes: Take Warfarin tablets.
7.30-8.00-DD goes to bed and has a choice of OH reading her a story or putting one of her DVD's on. Whichever one, she is asleep quite quickly:D I make list for next day and try and meal plan:p Catch up on emails.
8.00-9.30-OH & I spend some time together, or further studying, reading etc etc. More tea/coffee/cake. Also have supper.
9.30 onwards-turn off laptop, go to bed, making sure downstairs is tidy first. Quick flick upstairs picking any towels etc from the floor, but normally ok.

starlorna22

My day differs if I'm working from home or not. I typically work 3 days in the office and 3 days from home.

6:00 Alarm goes off - press Snooze
6:10 Alarm goes off again, press snooze, or get up for a shower if didn't have one the night before.
6:20 Boyfriend gets up
6:30 Get up (if not up for shower), get dressed, do hair and teeth
6:40 Make sure have everything in bag
6:45 Boyf and I drive to work (carshare as work for same company)
7:30 Arrive at work
4:00 Leave work
5:00 Arrive home
5:10 Start making tea - me and boyf alternate daily
6:00 - Eat tea
6:30 - Watch Hollyoaks (I know it's sad but I'm assicted)
7:00 - Wash up, clean kitchen
7:15 - Do any washing that needs doing and put it in the dryer
8:00 - Time on computer
8:30 - Couple of drinks with boyfriend
9:00 - Start thinking about bed as I'm not good with late nights

If I work from home, it's the same but I get up at 7:25am as I only have to walk downstairs to start work. My lunch hour is split up into several 10 min breaks so I can get all my jobs done throughout the day and spend the evening doing whatever I fancy.

Starlorna22 x