What is Your Typical Routine?
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| Mon, 10-09-2006 - 11:58pm |
Just curious as to what your typical routines are with your stay at home kiddos. Also include the age of said child!
Mine is:
Get up, feed the fish.
Get little one out of her room and let her help me feed Hootie (hes our blowfish)
Get little one fed (usually oatmeal, yogurt or fruit)
Get little one to sit on potty
Get little one dressed, then get dressed myself.
We both stand in front of the bathroom mirror and put "pretty pretties" (hair clips) in our hair and then we also spray "pretty pretties" (perfume) on.
Head into the family room to watch Dora, or Diego.
Work on ABC's on the Chalkboard
Coloring time
Playdoh while I do dishes
Clean up for lunch (usually this is cleaning up toys into her room, straightening and the way I get her involved so she wont be underfoot is let her dust, she loves that!)
Fix Lunch together (by together, I usually mean, I cook and she washes a spoon over and over again)
Stories
Nap
Up from nap and potty again
Outside time if weather permits
Backyardigans
Laundry
Dinner
Stories
Play
Bathtime
Stories
Bed
And my little one is 2 and a half.


I get up w/ dh at 5:00 am
make dh breakfast and lunch
take shower
watch a little tv
wake Cole up for school
make him breakfast
get him into shower
make him lunch
get him out the door for the bus
Makynna is waking up
make her breakfast
play games
go for walk
watch a movie or cartoons
nap time for Makynna(and mom sometimes!)
start preparing dinner
play w/ dogs
eat dinner
bath for kids
spend time w/ dh
kids to bed
tv time w/ dh
bed (10:00)
Ryland usually wakes us between 7:30-8 am so we get him up and change his diaper.
Then we all sit on the couch and watch the news, dh and I drink coffee and Ryland drinks juice.
Dh goes off to work and Ryland and I eat breakfast.
Ryland plays and I work. (Tues and Thurs Ry has physical therapy and speech therapy)
Ryland and I eat lunch and he goes down for a nap.
I work out, shower, and then work some more.
Ryland gets up from nap between 2-4pm.
We play and watch Noggin channel.
I make dinner and dh plays with Ryland.
We eat at 6pm-ish and then we clean the kitchen.
Ryland gets a bath at 7pm, we read 3 books, cuddle, and then he goes to bed by 8 pm.
Dh and I then work, watch tv, cuddle, etc and we go to bed by 10:30 or so.
Thanks to being pregnant my 'routine' is a lil loose right now hehe!
7:30-8:00 am ~ Emily climbs in our bed to wake us up! LOL I've been loving this! I used to get up at least a halfhour before she did.
8am ~ feed her fish and the cat annnnd the rabbit lol.
8:15 ~ Eat breakfast
8:30 ~ Em watches a tv show while i get dressed and brush my hair and such.
9:00 ~ Wake up daddy!
9:15 ~ Normally we'll do our running around at this point and if there isn't any I start my daily 'cleaning up' sooo pick up any toys she got out that morning and then dust all the surfaces with my lovely new microfibre cloth that i looove! Windex the tv and movie cabinet thanks to kiddos handprints all over it! Then vaccuum. I also normally use the clorox wipes on the toilet and bathroom counter. Emily is normally helping with her 'toy' cleaning products or colouring or playing with her phonics magnets.
10:00 ~ Mid morning snack for a hungry mommy
~~ Whatever time lol Normally she'll play and I'll come on here ~~
11:30 ~ lunch
12:15 ~ Any major cleaning that needs to be done (floors or bathtub/shower)
1:00 ~ Fold laundry while watching soap operas haha i know bad me!
2:00 ~ Daddy goes to work
3:00~ Play time with Emily
4:30 ~ Start dinner and I'll normally pop into the boards for a few minutes lol
5:30 ~ Supper then dishes then bathtime
7:00 ~ Queit time... we normally sit and watch one of her shows / videos and then do a story and she goes to bed.
8:00 ~ Mommy time! lol
Ooo this will be good help for those posting questions about schedules. Here is my day for me, for Caroline who is almost 6, and Christopher who turns one today!!
5:30a-wake up
5:30-6:00 read and have my coffee
6:00-6:30 day chore
6:30-7:00 shower and dress
7:00-Christopher and Caroline wake up
7:00-7:30 feed Christopher, prod Caroline along getting ready
7:30-8:10 prod Caroline along doing her morning chores, eat breakfast
8:10-8:20 take Caroline to school
8:20-9:00 finish day chore, exercise
9:00-1100 Christopher naps and I get online time Yay!
11:00-11:30 Christopher wakes up, online time over :-(
11:30-Noon feed Christopher
Noon-1:00p eat lunch, play with Christopher
1:00-3:00 Christopher naps and I get online time Yay!
3:00 Caroline gets home, help her with homework, feed Christopher a snack
3:30-5:00 hang out with the kids
5:00 start making dinner, give Christopher another snack as his "witching hour" starts
5:30-6:00 Dan home, eat dinner
6:00-7:00 hang out as a family
7:00-7:30 Caroline bedtime routine, Christopher down for the night
7:30 Caroline goes to bed
8:00-9:30 watch t.v. with Dan, go have nekkid fun, go to bed
It's not exact, not like we have a stop watch and go, but that's a round about.
Okay well we have a routine pretty much down but we have to with 10 children 6 dogs me and my husband. This is a typical day.....
5 am-get up with my husband and do our morning devotional
5:30 am- I go down to start making breakfast while husband takes shower
6:00 am-get older kids up and about (andrew, haleigh, garrett, teagan, and savannah)
6:30 am- breakfast mom dad and older kids, clean plates and make beds
7:15 am-older children dressed, hair brushed and fixed, face washed, teeth brushed
7:30-take older children to school
7:45-husband leaves for work
8:00- get other children up and give breakfast, feed dogs and let outside
9:00- take emmett and preston to pre-school
10:00-cheyanna and twins down for nap
10:30-pick up everything from breakfast and clean and straighten bathrooms
11:00-start and sort laundry for day
11:30-cheyanna gets up for lunch
12:00-cheyanna and I read book and do educational activities also get second load of laundry going
12:30 twins get up for next feeding
1:45-go pick emmett and preston up from preschool
2:45-older kids come home from school
3:00-snack then start homework
5:00-start dinner, help with anything not done
5:45-dinner whole family
6:30-free time/twins asleep
7:30-start giving baths (we have four bathrooms)
8:00-bedtime cheyanna, preston, emmett read a story
8:30 bedtime savannah,teagan and garrett
9:00 bedtime haleigh and andrew
9:30-twins up to feed/back to bed
10:00-evening bible study with husband talk about day and then normally sleep soon after
on weekends sometimes we watch a movie if we have any energy left from the day, lol.
My children are: Andrew 10, Haleigh 9, Garrett 8, Teagan 6, Savannah 5, Emmett 4, Preston 2, Cheyanna 1 and twins Rebekah (Becca) and Isaiah (Sammie) almost 1 mo.
Jennifer
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Sounds like you are probably rather tired at the end of the day too! I wanna see pictures!
Well...I don't really have a set schedule...every day is different, but this is how a typical day goes at our house....I have a 12.5 month old.
5:30: DH gets up, takes a shower, and leaves for work
6:30-7:00: Ryleigh wakes up and I get up.
- I go and get her out of her crib and she walks around while I pee, brush
my teeth, etc. She also brushes her teeth.
- I change her diaper and go downstairs and fix her breakfast.
- While she eats breakfast, I start what I call my 'morning chores' this consists
of: feeding the cats, letting the dog out, cleaning the cat's bowls when they
are done eating, cleaning the litter box, emptying trash and diaper pail if
needed, laundry, emptying the dishwasher, making beds
- When she's done eating I clean up her mess and she plays independently while I
eat my own breakfast. Then she'll either continue playing or 'help' me finish
my morning chores
- I go take a shower and Ryleigh plays upstairs in her room or in the bathroom
- I get Ryleigh dressed
I try to have this all done by like 9:30....doesn't always happen, but no big deal...
9:30-12:00: Every day is different....Mondays we do story time at the library, Tuesdays she has swimming lessons, Wednesday I try to get the downstairs of the house clean (she 'helps'), We also usually visit with a friend of mine who has a 2 year old on Wednesday mornings, Thursday I try to get the upstairs of the house clean, Friday is whatever. If we're not doing a scheduled activity then we just play...sometimes she takes an hour nap in this time frame (we're transitioning from 2 naps to 1). If she naps then I do whatever household chores need to be done, or I work on a sewing project or do scrapbooking, or come on the computer.
12:00: Lunch then play
1:00- 2:30: Nap/Mommy time (doing same things mentioned above)
2:30: Snack then play time with Mommy or we go run errands
4:30: Ryleigh's Dinner/I starts prepping for Josh and I's dinner
5:30: on Tues/Thurs/Fri: DH gets home from work and we eat dinner then it's play time with Daddy. On Mon/Wed DH doesn't get home until 7:30, so it's play time with Mommy on those days.
6:30: Start getting ready for bed...bath time, get jammies on, brush teeth...in bed by 7:00
7:00 Mon/Wed: Prep Josh and I's dinner; Tues/Thurs/Fri: Exercise
7:30 Mon/Wed: Eat dinner; Tues/Thurs/Fri: Spend time with DH