To ask what your life looks like at the moment?

My life sounds really strange and tedious in comparison with that of many, but here goes:

Up anytime between 2am - 6am, dependent upon when Twin 2, aged 6, wakes up. She has complex needs (AuDHD, LDs, challenging behaviour, self-harming tendencies, so has to be supervised at all times when awake)
5ish - take a ridiculous amount of medication, the most crucial being pain relief
5:30 - Feed cats and dog. Exercise dog in yard
6-7 - Twin 1 wakes up. Also additional needs, but less complex. Still requires support and prompting with every part of the morning routine
08:30 - school transport comes, wrestle twins into seat belts
09:00 support worker arrives to assist with my personal care and we take dog out
10:30 - 12 - life admin and doing what housework I can
12 - 2 - medication, then sleep
2 - 3 Do SEN advocacy for other struggling parents online
3 - 7 - twins home, then the absolute chaos that ensues, with meltdowns, areas being trashed by Twin 2, as well as activities (supported by their SW)
7-9 Long, drawn out bedtime routine
9-12 - Creative writing, doom scrolling on Internet, fretting about what the next day will bring

Fun.

I'm so sorry @2Old2Tango. I feel bad for moaning about my life being boring. You are going through hell. What an amazing thing you are doing for your husband and for your children too, looking after their father.

I hope you are managing to get some support and breaks and time for yourself. It must be so desperately hard and sad. I am sending you all the good wishes I have.

2 preteens, 2 dogs, 1 horse, a husband, and self employed

On a school day, I'm up at 6.30, sort the dogs, breakfast, sort kids for school run @ 8.45. Then my day will be a mixture of seeing clients (lots of driving), doing the horse, and work admin/content creation. School pick up is 3 - home, snack for kids, chores, cook dinner, reply to emails, take kids to activities/spend time with them. Then I'll either work more in the evening (2 nights a week out of the house), or go for a run (4 times a week). Bedtime usually ends up being between 11pm and midnight by the time I've hung washing up and scrolled my phone for a minute. Weekends are a mixture of kids activities, work, horse, dogs and the occassional momemt to sit on my arse

Aged 60, 2 adult DC in early 20s. One dog and a cat.

DH is terminally ill with cancer and extremely poorly. I'm his full time carer and had to give up work as a consequence. I don't sleep well. I get to bed around 10pm amd I'm up again around 5:30am to begin caring duties. It's full on as he's very needy due to his limitations and lack of mobility. The only time I go out is to get a bit of shopping or to take DH to hospital and hospice appointments. I feel like my own life is on hold and every day is miserable. I admit I cry a lot.

I'm almost 38, married, kids almost 9 and 7, work part time school hours.

My weekdays consist of getting the kids organised in the mornings, walking them to school then turning around to walk back to work. I do my shift then walk back to school then walk back home.

When I'm home I do typical house jobs like tidy up from the mornings carnage, sort washing, dinner etc.

Mondays I'm off so from school I go to the gym for 2-3 hours then home, jobs, hours rest then back to school.

Tuesday evenings once my husband is home I run.

Wednesday he goes out so I am in charge.

Thursday another run.

Friday evening I go to the gym.

Saturday mornings I get up early to go for a long run. Food shop then stuff around the house or whatever I need to do.

Sunday mornings I am back at the gym, take the kids with me and put them in the kids club. Collect them, home, lunch, jobs, husband out all afternoon.

We muddle through with meals and child stuff between us but they are at an age where they just need someone to cook and keep an eye on them. Bedtimes it's just reminding them to have a bath, making sure they've done homework and then getting them to bed.

I have a pretty easy life but sometimes I feel so overwhelmed because I don't prioritise the housework so it's always a state and I can never remember what the kids need for school.

Love these threads! I’m nosey.
Me, DH, almost 4 year old, almost 2 year old and 3 cats..

DH works full time, I work 30 hours across 3 days. DC go to nursery the days I work and other days are at home with me.

Non working day:

6-7am - Wake up when DC wake up
7-8am - Nappy change for youngest, breakfast for all, feed the cats and a coffee for me
8-10 - Getting dressed, putting a wash on, tidying up after breakfast, prepping anything we need for the day
10-12 - Trip out (anything really.. park, visit to parents, shopping, soft play, out in the garden etc)
12-1 - Lunchtime!
1-2 - Youngest sometimes will nap, me and eldest have some 1-2-1 colouring, crafting etc
2-4 - Play at home, general stuff around the house
4-5 - Cooking/eating dinner (DH gets home in time for this)
5-7 - A bit more play, bath time, getting ready for bed
7-8 - DH & I take one DC each and put them to bed
8-10 - Tidying up after the day, feeding cats, reading or watching TV (gaming sometimes for DH) and then bed

Working days:

6:30 - all up and have a drink, nappy change for youngest etc
7 - 7:30 - get DC dressed and ready in the car to go to nursery (they have breakfast there)
8-6 - work! DH picks DC up from nursery and brings them home and starts dinner
6-7 - Dinner time and play time
7-10 - Same as non working days!

Weekends we spend as a family, visiting friends/family, trips out etc nothing too extravagant. And any time in between is cleaning/gardening/food shopping/budgeting etc

I feel like I never get a moment to myself and life is super busy at the moment. But I am lucky to have my family and know that easier days may come at some point in the future ☺️

Up at 6.15am, make my DD breakfast and packed lunch, take 3 trains to work. Leave work at 5.30pm, back at 6.30pm ish. Make dinner for my DD. We both go to bed around 9pm but I watch TV in bed for an hour before I go to sleep. Weekends I usually play two hours of tennis and take my DD somewhere fun. We watch a lot of TV as well.

2 "kids" 15 and 20
DH works 5 days a week, usually 3 days in office (7.15 - 6pm) 8.30- 5.30 on home working days
I work 2.5 days a week - 2 days at 8 hours, one 4 hour day. 4 hour day at home.
Come home, cook tea, quick dog walk, then usually slump on the sofa watching tv

Not a particularly exciting life, but I feel lucky to work part time so I can do the crappy jobs (and shop/lunch with friends) on my days off so we have less crap over the weekends

1 toddler, 1 baby on the way, 2 dogs, 1 husband. Work 35 hours a week without travel time. Go on a couple holidays a year. Don't socialise much due to childcare, see family fairly often, at least once a week. Cleaner helps in the house, we share the cooking and dog walking. Not much excitement but that's to be expected.

I am single and retired, and I am writing a book.

I get up whenever I like, go to bed whenever I like, eat whenever I like, and whatever I like (within my dietary restrictions).

I go out whenever I feel like it and come back whenever it suits me. I'm pretty happy and I'm glad that there is no one watching and remarking on my actions.

Both DP and I have FT jobs and 2 kids, but post Covid more WFH than office so getting up time - optional but we generally are up by 7am, kids to school, dog to park for one of us and the other goes off to exercise -
swim, tennis, run -
then WFH.
Having the flex is amazing.

DS (8), DH and me.

I wfh full time and DH does it twice a week. My dad has been unwell recently and work has been stressful so I haven't been great.

6:45 - get up
7:00 - start work
7:30 - get DS up
8:00 - take DS to school
15:00 - finish work
15:10 - get DS from school

The evening has depended on whether my dad has been in hospital.

22:00 - 23:00 - bed

My life right now is simply a waiting game for my lovely parents and cats to pass away. Once that happens I’ll clear my house and shuffle off this mortal coil. I am simply existing in my house until then.

Awake at 5.30-6 am as dh works nights and that's when he comes in

I run and work in my own business starting at 8.30 am. Finishing time varies with work load.
This week I'm working three days.
Last week I did 5 plus late nights and then admin

Tween and teen dc at home really good kids.

We eat seperatly as everyone's out or in at different times. Eat together on weekends.
I go to my local beach most evenings for a walk sometimes with tween sometimes just me and on weekends I go early morning like 7 am. Grab a hot chocolate on the way.

Weekends are spent in garden or out pottering round.

Meet with friends once a month for meals out and eat out together a couple times a month.

Normally breakfast out one morning a week with dh when he's not done a night shift.

The usual house chores throughout the week and weekend.

Love my life

Get up at 6:40. Leave for work at 7:30. Half hour car commute with dh. Work until 5:30 as a teacher , sometimes do another hour of work at home (and usually do at least a couple of hours at the weekend). 2 teenage dc, one at uni. We share the housework (almost all done at the weekend) and the cooking. Hang out in the evening, do hobby things, often watch an episode of a series together. Go to bed at 10:40 ish.

So me, Zanatdy, 47yr old single mum of 3. Two adults (one at Uni, one 30yrs old) and one teenager age 16, about to start A levels. I’m a full time civil servant, living in the SE. I am frustrated as I’ve been renting since I started working 23yrs ago, because I can’t afford to buy in the SE on a single salary. Earn 63k so not bad money. Waiting to move back north, 2yrs to go, I try not to let it stress me starting a mortgage age 49, but going to buy something small but decent, and overpay and try and do it in 15yrs. I am part of a walking group, and love live theatre, and amateur dramatics. I have a lot of friends, am very social and overall I wouldn’t say stressed. The only thing that stresses me really is that I want to buy and feel trapped waiting 2 more years until DD goes to Uni. Sure it will fly by. Oh and I have a serious health issue, had major surgery and live off strong pain meds but try not to let it get me down. Overall I’d say I’m quite happy. Oh and happy being single for sure.

Edited to add my sleep is awful, I’m up at 4-5am at latest daily, asleep by 11 usually. On the go most of the day

Get up 6.45, breakfast, shower, household jobs like dishwasher, washing etc. Leave for work about 7.30. Work 8 till 5. Then it's a mix of cooking tea and ferrying children to clubs between 5.30 and 8. 8 - 9 getting them into bed, clearing up / chores. 9 - 10 work. 10 watch something with dh. 11 go to bed to read / shower etc. No time for exercise since I went full time. Live for the school holidays.

Work
Deal with Chronic pain
Grocery shopping
Odd coffee shop trip.
Shopping.
Thats it. I hate my life. Boring and pointless. Trying to save for my own place but wondering why I'm even bothering as feels like I will never get there.

Late 40s, live with my DP, no kids.

Weekdays I’m up around 8.45am, start work (from home) about 9.15. Have some lunch at home, work until about 5.30/6ish most days. I usually cook dinner for me and DP and we watch a bit of TV, listen to radio/podcasts, that kind of thing. We both kind of potter around with stuff while we’re watching/listening. I like crafts and puzzles. Generally go to bed about midnight. Probably asleep by 1am but not always.

We go out for dinner about three or four times a month. Sometimes go to the cinema or gigs or theatre midweek. One or two days a week one or both of us goes into the office which is an earlier start and sometimes we’ll get a drink together in town after work, maybe food too.

Weekends DP is usually out during the day on Saturday doing his hobby; if he’s going somewhere interesting I go as well but if not, I do my own thing. Sundays we mostly chill, watch football on telly, get some shopping done if necessary.

We go away for weekends a few times a year, together and separately. We both have elderly parents a long way away which means we do have to travel to see them quite a bit and we worry about them all the time.

I have a 5-year-old and a 2-year-old.

On a WFH day:
5am or 6.30am (alternate days) get up with my youngest. We take it in turns.
8.30am take eldest to school
9am start work, work madly with no breaks until 5pm
5pm collect youngest from nursery
7.30pm youngest upstairs for bath
8pm do eldest bedtime
9pm watch TV, do chores
10pm upstairs to bed

On a commuting day:
6.30am leave the house, commute 1hr45mins, work then do the commute home
6.45pm arrive home, eat and immediately start bedtime. Evening as above.

Cleaner once a week. Supermarket delivery twice a week. Lather rinse repeat. Boring AF!

Up at 6. Get two teens out of bed. Leave at 7:15, take one teen to school and then double back to my own school. Arrive around 8. Do some setting up for the day, pick up photocopying, check diary, answer emails. Teach according to timetable. Most days leave around 4:15 having used free lessons and lunch time to do planning and mark. Arrive home at 5. Throw food together. Tutor from 6 to 7, 3 nights a week at the moment. Complete planning, do basic housework like dishwasher and washing, waiting up long enough to put clothes on to dry (use a Lakeland heated dryer), putting the shopping away etc . Take dogs for a walk. In bed by 10:30 but rarely sleep before 12.

weekends I tutor on both Saturdays and Sundays when available. Go out with friends on a Saturday evening.

My life is easy at least that's how it looks to absolutely everyone. I don't work, my two kids are 10 & 15 and are really good kids, husband works for himself and does well, we are far from rich but are comfortable.

My thing is that I have crippling anxiety and it ruins everything, I would love to get back to work but the thought of doing that makes me feel sick. So I have a lot of free time but I don't do anything with it!

I'm currently trying to lose weight and doing ok with it but I need to exercise so I got a 7 day pass for a local gym, went today and all I wanted to do was going for a swim but the changing room was full of women who had just finished a class, they were spread about and all chatting and laughing (not saying that's a bad thing). There was no way I could go in there and get changed in front of them all so I hid in the toilet and then went back home. I just wanted a little swim 🙄

But I have a nice house, my kids are doing well and I can put food on the table every night so it's not all bad.

09:00 - 17:00 full time job and part time job that I fit around the main one one so usually working 07:00 - 19:00 Monday - Friday.

up at 05:45 each weekday to fit in breakfast and puppy exercise before work.

bed is usually between 21:30 -22:00 depending on how tired I am!! Weekends are usually doing some sort of diy and exercise.

so yes, busy and chaotic here too!

Really depends on your circumstances.

Get up: 4am daily. Holidays 7am sharp
Responsibilites: Kids by myself (single mum), whole household, pets, lots at work
Working hours: I am a teacher, so term-time about 12h/day, out of term-time: none
After work: If I can stand up straight - actually, scratch that (jk, I look after my kids) Food, hygiene, bed

When I'm not at work: Get the house back to an acceptable standard, make sure kids are alive, everything I've neglected term-time