To ask what your life looks like at the moment?

My life has been very different the past 2 years since my cancer diagnosis.

Before I was a very busy primary school teacher. Then I had to take ill health retirement.

Now... DHs alarm goes off at 6.40. He gets teens up for school/college. Sometimes I get up too, sometimes I sleep till 8.30ish.

After breakfast I hoover & tidy. I do the laundry. We have a cleaner on a Monday morning, & a dogwalker 2/3 times a week.

Depends on my fatigue, pain, side effects of chemo what I do with my day. At the mo I'm not on any treatment as it wasn't working. I still have lots of hospital appointments though. Friends might visit or we go out for coffee once or twice a week. Daughters & grandkids might pop in. I read a lot.

By 5.30 DH, DD & DSS are all back in. We chill for a bit chatting about everyone's day. Then DH makes dinner. Kids clear up. We either watch something or I read.

Weekends we try to get to the beach with the dogs.

Life is a bit crap right now as I only have one treatment left to try, the last 2 didn't work. I had growth & spread. I'm trying to be positive though, & have everything crossed I'm still here this time next year so I don't muck up DDs gcses.

Severely depressed here.

Monday-Thursday: Get up at noon and lie in bed for a few hours. Make plans for that evening to do something, then when it is time to do leave the house, lie back in to bed paralysed trying to force myself to go. Give up. Lie in bed again. Go to the shop. Manage about 1h of productivity applying for jobs. Get back into bed. Cry before going to sleep.

Friday-Sunday: Visit my bf who lives in another city.

Me, DP and DS (3yrs).
This is my life 4 x days per week when I’m working (wfh 2 days, work in office 2 days). DS has always been a night owl (probably my mediterranean blood…!), and it’s worse in the summer, so we don’t get evenings to ourselves (unless you count the 15mins of reading a book in bed). It’s pretty crap, but.. I am very lucky that I have 1 x day off in the week which is JUST FOR ME. It is bliss. I am eternally grateful for this luxury and for the sanity it restores.

07.15 - wake
07.17 - breakfast (DP wakes DS up at 06.40, feeds him, and makes my breakfast most days)
08.00 - dress for work (I’m a night shower person)
08.45 - go to work (tube)
09.30 - work (30mins-1hr lunch ‘break’ sat at desk)
17.30 - go home (tube)
18.30 - arrive home + shower
18.50 - make quick dinner if DP hasn’t
19.15 - dinner + doom scroll (I count this as ‘me time’ as DP + DS already had dinner, though they’re usually pottering about in the kitchen whilst I eat / DP reading endless books to DS)
20.00 - DP meditates (on his own) for 1hr and goes to bed
20.30 - get DS ready for bed
21.00 - get in bed with DS and read books ENDLESSLY
22.30 - DS finally asleep (DONT ASK)
22.30 - read a few pages of my own book in bed (‘me time’)
22.45 - sleep*

*behind schedule today!

up at 7am, drop DC at school anytime between 8-8.30 back home 5 minutes later as live close by

WFH so do a couple of chores then start work

Work is pretty flexible so can normally fit in some “me”, time e.g. exercise or something like a haircut, running errands.

Collect DC from grandparents (who help us out) or after school club at 5

Sometimes log back on to work in the evenings but not all the time

Try to get to bed 10 - 11.

Just one child so DH and I each get a bit of “me” time each weekend

WFH makes a massive difference to the quality of my life.

I'm single with two teenagers at home and one dog. Work full time as a teacher/SENCO.

I get up at 5.45am and walk the dog for an hour. Leave for work at 7.30am. Finish work around 5.30pm most days. Then home, make dinner and another dog walk, clean the kitchen, shower and bed.
On a weekend I do things like see friends for drinks or dinner, spend time with family, get the train to somewhere interesting, gigs, festivals, shop, yoga, bake, read, do huge dog walks to the beach, a lake or mountain.

I really love my life and after so many years of parenting I'm loving my increased freedom.

Mid 50's don't work, dh works from home unless he's at meetings. Adult kids have their own lives and I'm bored ridged. Have a few holidays coming up which I'm looking forward to though. Have elderly parents to keep an eye on and hopefully grandchildren one day!

Get up at 8am
Feed cats & quick wipe down of surfaces, clean downstairs loo, stretching exercises, then shower
Feed birds & feed farm cats that hang out with my cats. Currently trying to trap one for castration, but he ain't having none of it
Tidy garden
9.30am breakfast, check e-mails, make note of new bookings for my holiday cottages, other admin, tidy up somewhere in house
10.30am start cleaning accommodation, if guests have checked out
11.30am take DN to work, then walk her dog & pop to shop
1pm continue cleaning
3pm lunch
4pm coffee, then iron bed linen, listening to vids, call DM
5pm feed dog & walk by river, mountain (not up, near), or street- he decides
6pm sit down with tablet
7pm feed cats, then collect DN from work
8pm dinner, online, chat with DN
11.30pm'ish bed & read or mumsnet
Try to fit in piano nanny, but I need to buy a keyboard at this stage

DP works away, no DC

DH and I, plus two DDs aged 7 and 5.

Get up between 6.30am and 7am.

I work 3 days a week, DH works full time from home. On my working days, DDs go to after school club. On my non working days I pick them up and take them to activities after school (swimming and dance.) DH and I alternate the morning school drop offs.

My work is pretty stressful but working part time helps loads. On my days off when DDs are at school I can get errands done e.g. cleaning and food shopping but also have time to go to the gym. I would actually prefer DH worked outside the house sometimes as he is always here so I never get the house to myself.

Evenings we tend to all eat dinner together around 6pm. I do all the cooking, DH washes up. DDs watch some TV then up to bed around 7.30pm. DH and I alternate bedtimes so one of us supervises getting the children ready for bed and the other one tidies downstairs.

DH and I are normally watching TV from about 8.30pm-10.30pm then up to bed. We don't tend to do much in the evenings!

Weekends we alternate having a lie in and generally potter, get jobs done, go out somewhere as a family. I tend to supervise homework on a Saturday morning so it's out of the way for the weekend. We like reading, doing puzzles, being in the garden, going to cafes etc. Every Saturday night we have pizza and popcorn and take it in turns to choose a film to watch. All in all we have it pretty good!

Me, DH, three teens. I work 30 hours a week, mainly outside the house but with some flexibility to wfh, DH works long hours, partly in the office and partly wfh. The DC do lots of activities (sport, music) so I spend a lot of time driving them to things. I do feel busy but it's much easier than when they were little!

Early 40s, it's me, DH and 2 dogs. No children.

I work 30 hours, 3 days a week, in a very stressful and demanding environment. DH works 35 hours, 5 days a week, from home in a very flexible job. On my working days I leave home at 8:30am (up at 7:30am) and usually I'm back home at 7:30pm. DH does the shopping, cooking and takes care of the dogs. I do the laundry and cleaning.

Usually go to bed around 11pm regardless if I'm working the following day or not but just fall asleep around 12:00. We have dinner at 8-9pm and read or watch Netflix/TV before bed.

On my days off I go for walks with the dogs and DH, read a lot, go to the gym, study and take care of my plants. We live 30 minutes away from central London and like to discover new restaurants, go to the theatre and concerts, visit bookshops and so on. I also go home at least once a month - I'm originally from an European country a short flight away - as I have 4 days off every week. I go mainly to spend time with my parents and friends but while I'm there we go to the beach, eat a lot of fish (difficult to source it here!), etc.

It's not an exciting life at all but I like the predictability of it.

57, kids left home. Live with DP in city centre apartment.

alarm 7am. Noodle around on phone then out to the gym at 8am.

walk to work for 9:30 ish.

Work for myself in work I love that can be busy.

finish at 6ish, walk home.

dinner, tv on week nights. Go out at least twice at the weekend. Have 5-6 holidays a year.

As you may guess by my username (and possibly other threads I've made 🤔) I also feel a bit stressed and overwhelmed at times. I always find comparing myself with others pretty useless as "dealing with life" is quite a personal and complex thing. However you did ask so...

2 primary kids and a husband that works away fairly often during the week. I teach 4 days a week (off Friday mornings).
2 mornings a week I get up for a run or gym at 5.30 (if DH is here).
Otherwise I'm normally up, dressed, ready to go with kids by 7.30/7.45 for one of us to take them to breakfast club.
Walk or cycle to work to get there for anytime before 8.30.
2 days a week I try and leave very sharp (3.15) to go to the gym before I get the kids from after school club. Other days I'll leave around 4.30/5. Home, dinner, general housework etc. Kids up to bed around 8, I read/do a bit of work/watch TV and go to bed around 10.

Weekends I do a run or bike ride (often with DH and kids) and try and see friends if I can. One of my parents is terminally ill and requires round the clock care so I have to drive across to help with that one day most weekends which leaves me feeling quite unrelaxed and tense most weekends.

Don't work Fridays but kids are in school mornings only. I do try and ringfence that time for myself (seeing friends for breakfast/nail appts/lying on the couch watching rubbish telly!) and try not to do any housework or chores during those couple of hours as otherwise I feel like I get very little time for me due to the caring responsibilities. If you're feeling burnt out try and make a little time for yourself, no matter how small.

Two teens and 4 year old. I am incredibly stressed but that is because youngest two have additional needs and youngest is complex special needs.
Usually up around 5 or 5:30 with DS. I have given up work recently but I feel like I don't stop. All the housework is on me which is okay but it's the meetings and medical appointments for DS that stress me out. DH is out of the house from 7:30 until 5. We usually eat around 6 and after bath and bed for DS at 7:30 we just crash. Used to go to bed around 9:30 but now it's closer to 10:30.
At the moment I can't get to sleep and am waking up around 3 so constantly exhausted.

That's OK.
Similar here. 😛

Very often work in some capacity for 11 days without a day off (sometimes more as I am studying/training) and until I went of holiday last week was feeling a bit burnt out. Didn't realise how important a few days away are.

This is v relative to age, work, children.

44, no kids, get up around 7.20, work 9-5 in reality bit longer, dinner, work on projects, bed 11ish. Things I do for fun - gym, swim, walks, see DM, I try and book something fun every few months (day trip out or dinner). It's very monotonous but it's temporary as I'm paying off some debts and planning to move next year.

There’s me, DH and DD(5). DH and I work full time (I wfh and DH is hybrid).
Up at 6.30am and get ready for the day.
Drop DD at breakfast club at 7.30am
Go for a walk, then start work between 8.30 and 9.00am.
Finish at 5pm and pick DD up from after school club.
Make dinner at 5.30pm
Get DD ready for bed at 7.30pm
Sit down in front of the TV at 8.30pm
Go to bed at 10.30pm
Repeat.

late 50s, DH is disabled. Kids left home.
5am wake, read, watch news
6am get up,shower, make packed lunch, quick dog walk
8-5 work ( 20 mins to get to work)
Home by 5.30
5.45-7ish walk dog/ dog field
7 cook dinner
8-9 watch tv, MN 😉
9-10.30 watch tv in bed. MN

3 evenings out at exercise classes 8pm onwards
Mon- 1.5 hrs
Wed 2hrs
Thu 1.5 hrs

I’m a single parent (have been since the day my son was born as I fled abuse). The single parenting isn’t the hard bit, it’s the fact that I’m disabled and my son also has adhd and autism. This means I need more sleep than the average person due to my chronic pain exhausting me, and the fact that I cannot get it because my son doesn’t sleep.

On school days I wake up at 6.30 to get ready before I wake my son up. He often doesn’t end up sleeping until 10/11.. sometimes even gone midnight. By the time I get to sleep, I only end up with about 5 hours sleep each night. And as stated, I have a disability which causes me severe pain and if you’ve ever been in pain you would know how exhausted it makes you. So with that and the lack of sleep, I am barely functioning and being a single parent I cannot share the load 😔

then on top of that, I have to do everything - from the cooking to the cleaning or it doesn’t get done. I cannot even remember the last time someone made me a meal. Adult social services booked me 3 hours a week care, but I couldn’t afford it as it was £80 and I haven’t even got a spare penny, so I get no help.

I guess I’m ranting, but I’m having severe joint surgery on Friday, yet when I come home I still will have to do the night routine with my son and parent again the next day. My mum may help care for my son the following day; but I’ll still have to get up and make my own meals and wait on myself despite the major surgery. I’m being a downer and things aren’t all bad, but it’s just tough to ‘get on with things’.

On a weekday:
get up at 7am
drink coffee
start getting ready for work
leave at 8am to catch train
spend 8 hours doing my (somewhat boring) job
get back to home town around 6pm
often do some grocery shopping on the way home
cook tea
bath
should do yoga but don’t usually bother
scroll /podcasts
go to bed around 11pm

On weekends I do laundry/housework then just faff around

Married with two DC. Both work 4 days condensed. Typical working/school day.

7.00: Drag myself out of bed
7.00-7.30: repeat myself 1000 times for the DC to get dressed, make their breakfast
7:30-8.00: get ready for school run
8.00-8.20: repeat myself 1000 times for DC to finish breakfast, brush teeth and hair, shoes on
8.20-9.00: school run. Break up fights on the way. Arrive having had to tell at least one off sternly with threats of no screens. Home.
9.00-5.00: work from home at my very dull but well paid and flexible civil service job. Do a lot of mindless scrolling and mumsnetting, eating, laundry and chores mainly, send the odd email, have the odd Teams call and read/write dull and complicated documents.
5.00 onwards: some sort of after school activity for one or both DC. Dinner, bedtimes. Endlessly snack.
8.00 onwards: occasionally watch something with DH, or just mindlessly stare at my phone.

In a rut at the moment! Two SEN Dc is stressful, plus my job bores me to tears. I do run 3 times a week (on my day off and mornings when DH does school run) and our weekends are very busy, filled with DC activities, family days out, seeing friends.

Almost 40 live with DH. I have a chronic illness and have good and bad days. I haven’t worked for the past year. DH works Mon/Fri leaves at 7.30am home at 5pm.

Bad day

7am Alarm - Wake up with a lot of horrible symptoms. DH brings me breakfast and enough water for the day to bed. Leaves me a sandwich in the fridge for lunch before going to work at 7.30am. I’ll spend the day mostly asleep and in between I’ll scroll on my phone/sort admin (online shopping, bills, appointments etc)/watch tv/sink wash at some point.

5pm DH home from work - Evenings I generally feel a bit brighter I will cook, eat dinner with DH whilst watching tv for an hour.

7pm Back in bed - I’ll scroll on phone for a bit then watch tv. DH does his own thing (running, gym, play football, watch tv, gaming, reading)

10pm Meditation and Sleep

Good day
7am Alarm - Wake up then get up and have breakfast and read a book.

8am - 15 mins Yoga then back to bed for a rest, listen to a podcast.

9am - Shower and get dressed then 15 min rest. Then tidy up put a load of laundry on then rest on sofa watch tv/sort admin.

1pm - Make lunch then sort laundry then rest on sofa watch tv.

2pm - Get in bed (too fatigued to sit on sofa anymore) and sleep or watch a movie.

5pm-10pm As above.

Chores - I do all admin, tidying, cooking & laundry. We get food shopping delivered twice a week, we have a cleaner once a week, gardener twice a month and window cleaner once a month. DH does dishes, makes me food
on a bad day, DIY jobs and runs errands and gives me lifts to appointments. He drives and I don’t.

Weekends

Saturday - DH out at a hobby most of the day and I try to meet a friend for a coffee/go to the theatre/get nails or hair done if I’m not having a bad day, makes it really awkward having to cancel on friends or cancel appointments if I can’t get out of bed.

Sunday - If I’m having a good day then DH and I go out for brunch or lunch/visit family/go to the cinema/go to a museum/visit a National Trust place/go shopping. Only one activity a day!

Any day that I do go out will be for a maximum of around 2 hours and then I’ll spend the rest of day in bed. Won’t be able to cook so dinner will
be takeaway or leftovers.

Me, DH and two kids (aged 3 and 5), plus a dog and a couple of cats. DH works full time, but wfh. I work 21 hrs, 2 long days one short day, but I have to commute, 1hrs 15 mins each way.

So, on the days I work, I'm up at 5.30am and leave the house at 6.20am. Get home just after 6pm, then it's pretty much into the kids bedtime routine. I barely see the kids on these days and it sucks. In my short day I finish at 1pm, home by 2.30pm, dump bags, head out to nursery pick up, followed by school pick up and then back home to chill with kids, make dinner etc.

DH goes to the gym early in the morning on the days I don't work and then walks the dog. I spend the day with the little one - playgroup, walks, shopping etc. I go to the gym two evenings a week and once at the weekend. I'm trying to start running, but it's hard to fit in. The dog also needs a second walk in the evenings. DH usually sorts out dinner. Then we slob in front of tv most nights. We have a cleaner once a week.

Weekends are family time - we have one lie in each. One day we usually split so we get some child free time, the other we do stuff together.

To be honest, I'm exhausted. Which is ridiculous as I know I have it better than many. It doesn't feel like there are enough hours in the day. I'm looking for a new job, something closer to home or where wfh is an option. I think that will help. The commute is a killer for me.

Me, DP, DS, aged one.
Both work full time.
Get up between 6am and 7am.
Sort baby between us (DP always takes him and dog for early morning walk), get dressed, drop baby off at childcare, get into office by about 8.30am
Usually home by about 6.30pm, sometimes much later.
Take baby to park, bath him, put him to bed.
8.30pm - have some food, scroll on phone, watch TV, read
Bed anywhere between 10pm and midnight.
At weekend we go out for food, day trips or swimming with baby, might see a friend for a coffee.
I have a cleaner once a week.
We go on holidays often.
Job stressful at times but enjoyable.
Money not a massive issue.
Can't seem to find the time to keep on top of house or exercise.
First world problems.

Married with two older teenagers. One of the DC works full time, one is in 6th form. They both drive. Life is a lot easier than it was when they were little and I used to juggle two jobs.
I now work full time mon-fri. I walk to work which is 10 minutes away from home.
I see a friend one evening a week. Have nice weekends, like walking with my husband. We share house and garden stuff . Even though I work full time I feel like I have a good balance now.