What is your daily routine?
Do you get up, drink coffee and have a shower? Drink tea and go get the paper? Walk/shuffle kids off to school? Watch a morning TV show? Call a friend?..........
I get up every "morning" at 9:30 PM!! I take a bubblebath and leave for work at 10:30. I work 11 PM till 7 AM. I work for a company called "California Mentor." We go into the homes of people with developmental disabilities and provide supported living services for them. The woman I take care of requires around the clock care and so I stay with her overnight in her home.....except for she has been very sick and has been in the hospital.........on the psych ward......for the past 2 months and so THAT is where I have been working the past 2 months! (They havn't commited me to the ward yet.......but I keep waiting!!!) LOL!!
Breakfast is at 3 AM.
When I get home at 7:30 I cook dinner for that evening, do a chore or 2, do errands, check my emails and play on the Family Corner a bit, eat lunch and then it is back to bed and start all over again!!
How about YOU? WHat is YOUR daily routine??
Originally posted by trainlady How about YOU? WHat is YOUR daily routine??
Routine??? What's THAT??
With a DD in nursing school, two DS, a DH and a FIL to tend to, I hardly ever know what my day will bring.
My DD and my FIL are the worst ones about springing things on me at the last minute.
The closest thing I have to a routine is getting up in the morning during the school week at anywhere from 4:45 to 5:45 a.m. (depending on what I am making for breakfast.....and how many different breakfasts I am making!). While everyone else eats, I shower, dress & blow dry my hair. Then it's off to take the two DS to school. They can't ride the school bus as DS # 1 isn't allowed to haul his tuba on the bus.
Then , unless my FIL has a doctor's appt. or something else comes up, I come home, eat my breakfast, start some laundry and scan through my e-mail.
If I am home at 9:00 a.m., I turn on the TV and watch Starting Over.....can't miss it. (I tape it when I can't be home to watch it)
The next "set" thing is to pick up the two DS from school....DS # 2 at 3:00 pm and DS # 1 at 3:10 pm. Actually, today was their last full day of school so that really doesn't count anymore until school starts again.....then it will be picking them both up at 3:10 since DS # 2 will be moving over to the Middel School.
The remaining parts of my day is up for grabs to whatever comes up. We don't even have a set time for supper. I like to eat by 5:30 but we rarely make it.
I don't mean this to sound ugly..............but I could have a much more structured day if not for my FIL. He thinks I have nothing better to do than to wait on him hand & foot. A doctor's office will call him and tell him that he is due for a visit. He will take the first available appt they offer him and then expect me to take him.... even if we only have an hour or so to get there! He will soon be 85 yrs old and is VERY stubborn & hard-headed.
Trainlady that is quite the schedule you have......must be hard working through the night!!!
My day starts at 5:30 am. Hubby gets up to leave for the military base 45 min away. No shower or breaky as he does pt as soon as he gets there. I get myself in the shower as my first kids for the daycare arrive at 6:15 am. My daughter has to be up and ready to leave for the bus at 7:30 and my boys have to walk to school at 8:30 so we are busy getting everyone fed and out the door plus all the daycare kids coming in the door. I am busy all day with the children doing craft, story time, lunch, snack, outside time and lots of diaper changes!! I finish work at 6pm and hubby usually is home at 5 and starts supper and cleans the kitchen from the day. Our evenings are busy with martial arts classes, soccer, fire dept., piano and whatever else comes our way. Sunday is quiet with church and quality family time.
debknechtel
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Trainlady, You work the exact same schedule that my DH does. Having a family and working this schedule takes a lot of getting used to. Others never quite understand how we can do it or why we keep such odd hours on holidays and times like that.
During the school year, I get up with DS so that he is dresses and fed right before DH gets home at 7:40 am. Then DH drives him to school.
After he comes back home, we run errands or I go to Curves and he watches my DD. Or there are days when he goes to bed so that he can get up earlier in the evening if we have something planned.
For summer, We are usually still asleep when he gets home. He awakens my DS and takes care of him until DD and I get up--most of the time by 9:00.---This is a treat that I can sleep in on occasions!!
The kids and I go about our day. Dh is usually up around 5:00 if he gets to bed on time.
We eat dinner and then prepare for the most active time of our day. Family time is spent together now, then the kids have to get ready for bed, DH needs to get ready for work, dishes need to be done, lunches made........
At somewhere around 11:00, I finally get a couple hours of "My Time"
You really learn to live by a different clock when you work the midnight shift.
I don't have 2 days in the week that are the same throughout.
Generally I get up at 6.30ish, while I hop in the shower hubby gets his breakfast and makes sure the kids have had theirs.
He hops in the shower and I get lunches and make sure the kids are dressed and have what they need for the day. The computer gets turned on somewhere in that time slot but it just generally warms us while I do these things. When the kids have gone to school I read my emails in between clothes washing, bed making dishes doing and any tidying up that needs to be done, it then depends on whether it's a shcool day for me also or a shopping day or a craft day or a work day as to how it then goes.
5pm I start on dinner or frantically think what can I have and we sit down to dinner at 6pm.
Start and finish are similar I suppose with the middle always changing.
Now that was a novel in itself wasn't it?
i like this question,
my daily routine is this,
get up at 5 with hubby, have lots of coffee and visit with him before he leaves for work at 6:45, more coffee and i head for the comp. am checking email until 9 when i get the kids up, feed em and get 2 off to day camp at 10. the other 2 are with me at the comp. again. at 11 i feed lunch to the other 2 and off to summer school at 12 with our youngest. so 1 kid left at home with me, alls quiet until 3 when the first 2 come home from camp. in the meantime i do dishes, laundry and cleaning then back on the comp. at about 3:15 hubby comes home from work, we talk and he goes and picks up our youngest from summer school at 4:30, we try to have dinner by 5-5:30. then its dishes, maybe tv depending whats on, or a movie, most nights we all go outside, we sit and the kids play. kids in bed by 9, we back on comp checking email etc before goin to bed at 10. a new day starts again at 5
wow...my daily routine is quite easy...due to the fact that my DF doesn't want to put more stress on me then necessary...
I get up about 0900...go make my honey's lunch for the day...see if there are any decent cartoons on...if not i start cleaning...if there are i watch those first and then i clean...i pull out what we are gonna have for dinner...then play on the computer...
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