I am just curious, especially for sahms, what your schedule might be on a typical day. Mine generally revolves around the kids and the chores 
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What does a typical day look like?
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As though I'm particularly insane.I get up around 4.30/5am. Run the first worker to a 6am boat. Take the learner driver out for a drive about 7. Run her up to work at 8. Hopefully begin homeschooling by 8.30 unless there's a music lesson scheduled. Try to eat & do chores between keeping tabs on the schooling one. Sort out meds for the disabled one. After lunch I usually begin tea preparations as either I'm out (music stuff for the musical one or soccer stuff for the sports freaks) or doing boat runs. By 8.30 I've usually had it & am heading for bed unless it's one of the 2 nights I'm running a child round on the mainland. My big ones are helpful & pretty self sufficient but need guidance or they can destroy a weeks worth of meal preparations in one sitting!.
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Each day is so different for me so it's difficult to answer. My Monday: Wake up, make breakfast, go the grocery store, drop OS off at school, have YS nap after lunch, clean up, pick up OS from school, come home and get dinner going. Eat, do homework with OS, kiddo's take a bath/shower, go to bed. DH and I stay up, have tea, chat, play scrabble, watch TV etc. Bed.
I wake up around 7/730 and go to bed bn 10 and 11.
I wake up around 7/730 and go to bed bn 10 and 11.
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JustBoo
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My monday , wednesday and friday's are like this:
Wake up , get DD dressed , fed and sent off to daycare , feed , dress DS. Chores , errands untill 11;#0-12:00 -lunch for DS then nap , around 12:45 DD arives home. She then goes down for a rest.
Round 2 ish they start getting back up and we play some more , on a nice day maybe go for a walk , I try to get whatever ckleaning / chores /phone alls done that I didn't during their nap.At 5 DH lands home , we eat supper , play with the kids , clean up after supper one goes down between 7:00 - 7:30 the other between 7:30 - 8:00. From 8 - 10:30/11:00 is computer , reading , cleaning , occasionally coimpany or a meeting or running more errands then bed.
Teusday and Thursday is the same except DD doesn't go to daycare so she's here all morning too which usually means I get way less done.
Also , every second monday DD has therapy with her Preschool Special Needs Team so we have to go to that.
Weekends are totally different as I work an overnight shift both nights and violunteer so it's all over the place.
Wake up , get DD dressed , fed and sent off to daycare , feed , dress DS. Chores , errands untill 11;#0-12:00 -lunch for DS then nap , around 12:45 DD arives home. She then goes down for a rest.
Round 2 ish they start getting back up and we play some more , on a nice day maybe go for a walk , I try to get whatever ckleaning / chores /phone alls done that I didn't during their nap.At 5 DH lands home , we eat supper , play with the kids , clean up after supper one goes down between 7:00 - 7:30 the other between 7:30 - 8:00. From 8 - 10:30/11:00 is computer , reading , cleaning , occasionally coimpany or a meeting or running more errands then bed.
Teusday and Thursday is the same except DD doesn't go to daycare so she's here all morning too which usually means I get way less done.
Also , every second monday DD has therapy with her Preschool Special Needs Team so we have to go to that.
Weekends are totally different as I work an overnight shift both nights and violunteer so it's all over the place.
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Right now DD is only 6 weeks... so if she's not attached to my chest I'm either cleaning, on the comp. or napping with her. I've been able to take her out a couple of times for a walk but I'm worried about the sun and sunscreen is too strong for her skin right now. I'm sooooo looking foward to a 6-8 hour stretch of sleep. She's given me 4 hours pretty consistently at night, but it's usually every 2 that she needs to eat.
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Our day looks like this:
8 or 8:30 we wake (DS is usually my alarm clock on days I don't have church or BSF)
9:00-Breakfast and then dress DS
Between breakfast I usually clean
10:00 shower
11:00- DS goes to crib for a rest
12:30- Lunch
1-3:30 Errands or cleaning and snack time/playtime
3:00 or 4- Naptime
5:45 or 6 Dinner
Playtime, bathtime, storytime
9:00 or 9:30- Bedtime
8 or 8:30 we wake (DS is usually my alarm clock on days I don't have church or BSF)
9:00-Breakfast and then dress DS
Between breakfast I usually clean
10:00 shower
11:00- DS goes to crib for a rest
12:30- Lunch
1-3:30 Errands or cleaning and snack time/playtime
3:00 or 4- Naptime
5:45 or 6 Dinner
Playtime, bathtime, storytime
9:00 or 9:30- Bedtime
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DH goes to work about 6:45 am. I get up about 7 or 7:30.
Wake up all the kids at 8. Breakfast follows (older ones help the younger ones) and I take a shower.
Breakfast is over by 9, and the kids start their schoolwork (we homeschool). If it's laundry day (M & Th), we start the laundry at this time. My oldest DS (23) leaves for work at this time also.
If I have errands to run or any appointments, I do them in the morning only. The oldest kids babysit while I'm gone (2 hrs max).
Lunch is at 12 noon to 1 pm. Occasionally one of my teens is scheduled to work in the afternoon (12- 3 or 4) so I'd have to have them to the mall by 12 (my 18 & 16 yr olds work at Chick-Fil-A).
I help my youngest (5.5) with her kinder schoolwork from 1 until she finishes (some days 15 minutes, other days longer). Older kids finish any schoolwork they didn't finish in the morning. I grade math papers & look over most of their work.
I lay down for a power nap about 2 or 2:30, Every Day.
After I get up, the younger ones (usually) play outside until dinner time, unless they didn't finish schoolwork by then (then they can't play outside or get on the computer). DH either gets home around dinner (or if he's working his side job about 10 pm).
Younger kids get ready for bed at 9. Older kids tend to stay up until 11 or so. I'm usually in bed by 10:30 or 11.
Wake up all the kids at 8. Breakfast follows (older ones help the younger ones) and I take a shower.
Breakfast is over by 9, and the kids start their schoolwork (we homeschool). If it's laundry day (M & Th), we start the laundry at this time. My oldest DS (23) leaves for work at this time also.
If I have errands to run or any appointments, I do them in the morning only. The oldest kids babysit while I'm gone (2 hrs max).
Lunch is at 12 noon to 1 pm. Occasionally one of my teens is scheduled to work in the afternoon (12- 3 or 4) so I'd have to have them to the mall by 12 (my 18 & 16 yr olds work at Chick-Fil-A).
I help my youngest (5.5) with her kinder schoolwork from 1 until she finishes (some days 15 minutes, other days longer). Older kids finish any schoolwork they didn't finish in the morning. I grade math papers & look over most of their work.
I lay down for a power nap about 2 or 2:30, Every Day.
After I get up, the younger ones (usually) play outside until dinner time, unless they didn't finish schoolwork by then (then they can't play outside or get on the computer). DH either gets home around dinner (or if he's working his side job about 10 pm).
Younger kids get ready for bed at 9. Older kids tend to stay up until 11 or so. I'm usually in bed by 10:30 or 11.
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You go girl. I couldn't imagine having that many kids. One's enough! LOLDH goes to work about 6:45 am. I get up about 7 or 7:30.
Wake up all the kids at 8. Breakfast follows (older ones help the younger ones) and I take a shower.
Breakfast is over by 9, and the kids start their schoolwork (we homeschool). If it's laundry day (M & Th), we start the laundry at this time. My oldest DS (23) leaves for work at this time also.
If I have errands to run or any appointments, I do them in the morning only. The oldest kids babysit while I'm gone (2 hrs max).
Lunch is at 12 noon to 1 pm. Occasionally one of my teens is scheduled to work in the afternoon (12- 3 or 4) so I'd have to have them to the mall by 12 (my 18 & 16 yr olds work at Chick-Fil-A).
I help my youngest (5.5) with her kinder schoolwork from 1 until she finishes (some days 15 minutes, other days longer). Older kids finish any schoolwork they didn't finish in the morning. I grade math papers & look over most of their work.
I lay down for a power nap about 2 or 2:30, Every Day.
After I get up, the younger ones (usually) play outside until dinner time, unless they didn't finish schoolwork by then (then they can't play outside or get on the computer). DH either gets home around dinner (or if he's working his side job about 10 pm).
Younger kids get ready for bed at 9. Older kids tend to stay up until 11 or so. I'm usually in bed by 10:30 or 11.
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6:30-7a Wake up and Nurse. Play until breakfast.
9a breakfast
9:30a Wash face and hands, brush teeth and get dressed.
10a Go out, to the park or for a walk
11a Lunch
12-2 Nap time this is normally time I spend with DH and get things done.
2-3 DS plays with Dad before he runs off to work. Then we have a snack and more free play.
5p We got for another walk or trip to the park. This normally helps make him nice and hungry for dinner.
5:30 come home and I make dinner while he plays.
6p Dinner & clean up
7p We start the bedtime routine breathing treatment and meds, bath, nurse, stories etc
He goes to bed at 8p
9a breakfast
9:30a Wash face and hands, brush teeth and get dressed.
10a Go out, to the park or for a walk
11a Lunch
12-2 Nap time this is normally time I spend with DH and get things done.
2-3 DS plays with Dad before he runs off to work. Then we have a snack and more free play.
5p We got for another walk or trip to the park. This normally helps make him nice and hungry for dinner.
5:30 come home and I make dinner while he plays.
6p Dinner & clean up
7p We start the bedtime routine breathing treatment and meds, bath, nurse, stories etc
He goes to bed at 8p
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Hmmm...
we wake up around 7.30-8am
Get dressed, and then breakfast.
Betweent 9.30 and 11.30-12.00 DS and I do errands etc.
When we get back it's lunchtime (usually sometime between 11.30 -12.30)
Then nap time (sometimes I nap too - 34w pg!)
DS usually wakes up sometime between 2.30-3pm
Then he plays and I do housework, or we go out for the afternoon instead...back by 5 and dinner by 6pm.
ThenDH and I play with DS til bath and bedtime - I usually bath him around 7.30 and DH puts him to bed at 8.
Then we have a couple of hours to ourselves - computer, movie, chat, whatever...and for us it's bed between 10-11 (usually).
I'm sure all that will be turned upside down when the new little one arrives.
we wake up around 7.30-8am
Get dressed, and then breakfast.
Betweent 9.30 and 11.30-12.00 DS and I do errands etc.
When we get back it's lunchtime (usually sometime between 11.30 -12.30)
Then nap time (sometimes I nap too - 34w pg!)
DS usually wakes up sometime between 2.30-3pm
Then he plays and I do housework, or we go out for the afternoon instead...back by 5 and dinner by 6pm.
ThenDH and I play with DS til bath and bedtime - I usually bath him around 7.30 and DH puts him to bed at 8.
Then we have a couple of hours to ourselves - computer, movie, chat, whatever...and for us it's bed between 10-11 (usually).
I'm sure all that will be turned upside down when the new little one arrives.
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I get up and get the kids up about 6:30. Breakfast, get ready for school, out the door by 7:40. After dropping the oldest at elementary school and the middle at preschool, Little One and I head to the gym. I finish my work out between 10:15 or 11:00. I might run a quick errand. We head home, play, eat lunch, and about noon Little One is down for a nap. I shower, do housework, nap, whatever. At 2:00 we head out to pick the older 2 up. We're usually home for a few hours before we head out to some kind of activity - church, sportss, cub scouts.
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JulySheMustFly
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This is our basic bare bones schedule.
7am - breakfast
10am - snack
11:30 - lunch
12:15 - walk/bus stop/ oldest child to school
12:30-1pm - quiet play
1pm - errands if needed
2pm - snack
4pm - walk/bus stop/ oldest child home
4:15 snack
6pm dinner
7:30pm - ready for bed
8pm - bed time
In all those empty spaces we play, work in the garden, hang clothes to dry, make bread, do laundry, wash dishes, read books, take baths, go bicycling, hiking, sew (I've got shorts on my table today), and anything else I may have missed.
7am - breakfast
10am - snack
11:30 - lunch
12:15 - walk/bus stop/ oldest child to school
12:30-1pm - quiet play
1pm - errands if needed
2pm - snack
4pm - walk/bus stop/ oldest child home
4:15 snack
6pm dinner
7:30pm - ready for bed
8pm - bed time
In all those empty spaces we play, work in the garden, hang clothes to dry, make bread, do laundry, wash dishes, read books, take baths, go bicycling, hiking, sew (I've got shorts on my table today), and anything else I may have missed.
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my schedule is pretty flexible but heres an average day
Kids wake me up sometime between 6:30-7:30am
Change diapers
have coffee and computer while they play or watch a cartoon
Playtime for a bit
9am breakfast
more playtime/cleaning
10:45 start getting luke dressed and ready for school
11am anna goes down for a nap
11:30 Luke leaves for school
(during annas nap i clean/have computer time)
2pm anna wakes up and has lunch
3:30pm Luke gets home from school and has snack and a tv show
4:30pm hubby home from work and takes kids for stroller ride/bike ride or to play somewhere while i start fixing dinner
5:30pm eat dinner then clean up
6:30pm me and hubby and kids all do something together
7:45pm bedtime routine starts
8:30 to 9pm kids go to sleep
9-10:30 hubby and i spend time together
10:30-11pm bed
Kids wake me up sometime between 6:30-7:30am
Change diapers
have coffee and computer while they play or watch a cartoon
Playtime for a bit
9am breakfast
more playtime/cleaning
10:45 start getting luke dressed and ready for school
11am anna goes down for a nap
11:30 Luke leaves for school
(during annas nap i clean/have computer time)
2pm anna wakes up and has lunch
3:30pm Luke gets home from school and has snack and a tv show
4:30pm hubby home from work and takes kids for stroller ride/bike ride or to play somewhere while i start fixing dinner
5:30pm eat dinner then clean up
6:30pm me and hubby and kids all do something together
7:45pm bedtime routine starts
8:30 to 9pm kids go to sleep
9-10:30 hubby and i spend time together
10:30-11pm bed
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LOL! I don't think we have typical days
Everyone stumbles out of bed at some point, eventually w are all fed and dressed and have beds made and dishes put away. Eventually we get around to doing some school work. Thrown in at some point are naps for the youngest two. At some point some people may or may not shower and have a bath. There will be playing outside and laundry. Through intervals everyone gets lunch. Usually there is a bit of TV in the afternoon. Then some random set of people help with getting dinner ready and on the table and cleaned up. more playtime. And scatterred children getting ready for bed at comletely random times with compltely random things at bed- sometimes a book, sometimes the olders reading to the youngers, sometimes a story on CD-sometimes nothing.
Seriously--it's a wonder we can function at all.
Everyone stumbles out of bed at some point, eventually w are all fed and dressed and have beds made and dishes put away. Eventually we get around to doing some school work. Thrown in at some point are naps for the youngest two. At some point some people may or may not shower and have a bath. There will be playing outside and laundry. Through intervals everyone gets lunch. Usually there is a bit of TV in the afternoon. Then some random set of people help with getting dinner ready and on the table and cleaned up. more playtime. And scatterred children getting ready for bed at comletely random times with compltely random things at bed- sometimes a book, sometimes the olders reading to the youngers, sometimes a story on CD-sometimes nothing.
Seriously--it's a wonder we can function at all.
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