Dancing in the Rain

No real evening routine here, though I have just starting rewriting FlyLady weekly one and hope to get onto all that shortly.

I suppose it gets as far as a mini routine when I get in : feed cats, check post, put work bag in office, check planner, check emails. And another mini routine before bed. Mornings are pretty much sorted and only vary on whether I manage porridge or run out of the door with breakfast bits in my bag.

I'm surprised how much difference it makes having the office - all the stuff that used to get in the way elsewhere is now in here and I keep it tidier.


Rosa xx

Here's some input from me - sorry it's in bullet-type form, it's just easier for me to download my thoughts!

Dishes
I did wonder how you manage to be stuck with quite so many dishes! Maybe you could take a look on Gumtree or Facebook selling pages for a second hand dishwasher in the interim period? I see lots on my local pages for £50ish and I'm often tempted myself.

Routine
Ok, after thinking about my 'non-routine', I think i maybe misled you by saying that I had none. Maybe I just don't class what I do as a routine. Here's normally what happens on a week night.

- Husband gets in from work and one of us starts dinner
- The other does the dishes while we're catching up on our day
- The kids are picked up by one of us
- The kids' bags are emptied and replenished with whatever is needed (change of clothes, signed form for school etc
- Husband sets out his breakfast/ fruit and thermos for the following morning in front of the kettle
- We all sit down to dinner (sometimes husband and I squeeze in a The Body Coach workout for 20 minutes before dinner if it's longer in the oven)
- Then one takes the kids upstairs to the shower and the other does the dinner dishes and cleans down
- Both go up and get the kids into bed and read a story
- Shower time for us both (not together i might add...haha) - whatever one is showering, the other hangs washing up or puts clothes away and then we swap
- Any last things that we need to do that are urgent get done then we sit down for an hour before bed.

This probably doesn't help you much because a lot of it is centred around the kids but might help to see what we do during 6-9pm.

Re: washings, because I'm working from home at the moment, i'm able to put them on during the day as it only takes 5 minutes but when I'm working from the office, i put the washing on before I leave the house and set it to be finished at 6pm when I get in to save it sitting stagnant and wet in the machine all day.

We also try to make something on Sunday night to do us for lunch during the week like soup or a pasta/ rice dish. This means we're not spending lots of time at night or the morning prepping lunches. One night during the week we usually need to make something as the soup has run out or whatever, but we just make enough to do the rest of the week.

Hope that's a tiny bit useful!

Sorry to hear the news about the job, it's always worse when you put so much effort into something and can really see yourself in it. Well done for getting as far as you did though, and I hope you get some decent feedback.

My husband has to put his stuff in front of the kettle or else he won't remember it as making coffee is the last thing he does before he leaves in the morning

Your kitchen isn't too far off, is it DIA? I'm sure I remember you posting recently about getting it done in the near future.

Ours is still a while off yet, although it is functioning (just old and really poorly laid out/ falling to bits) so I can't complain too much. Full of grand plans and frustrated at the lack of money available immediately to make those plans a reality! haha

Sorry to hear about the job, and I agree with Beanie.