So stressed about morning routine and nursery, school drop offs and work commute. Any one else?

[Annebody]

Does anyone else struggle with this?
I am finding it so stressful.
Work full time. Monday to Friday.
I wake up around 6am. Get myself ready and make lunches. I try to relax by watching a bit of TV or listening to some music.
Wake the dc at 7am. I can't wait them earlier as they need their sleep. Get them dressed. Feed one dc breakfast (he won't eat at breakfast club). Then out the door at 7.15. Drop them off at nursery 7.30 and school 7.45. Then I go to work.

My commute is not easy as it varies as I meet my clients so it's ranges from 15 mins to over an hour. Once I'm at work it is fine.

I find the whole time from waking the dc up to getting to work so stressful and my anxiety is so high. Have been doing this for nearly 3 years and it is not getting easier but I don't know what I can do about it!

Put them to bed earlier, they can read a book you need to retrain their sleep patterns. Do all the prep for the next day in the evening. It is so hard with primary age children. Mind you getting teenagers up is no joke either.

I would love for dh to work from home, I do some of my work from home and it is so much better for the family! I'm am so lucky to be able to do this and I'm also so lucky with my work as it is term time only so can be with the dc and also have a break from the school run then. I know we are lucky in this way and I am so grateful. But unfortunately with Dh's work it is completely impossible to do any of it at home.

I'm feeling better already. I will focus on the youngest and get him ready and because I have only one to drop off I can leave 15 minutes later anyway so I think this will help so much.

If your husband doesn't get home until 7:30pm then he doesn't see the children in the evening, is what OP said. & the kids are barely up at 7am.

Wait, you have 2 kids who sleep 7:30pm-7am? Wow.

I understand the relentless tension of that drudge tight schedule every school day morning, truly, but Wow You Have 2 Kids who Sleep 7:30pm-7am. That means you have regular evenings without kids to tend to. I know it's ordinary for many to have child-free time in evenings, but some of us never had it before 9-10pm (& certainly not now my youngest is 10yo I don't have it any more either). So I am well .

What happens during the 12-13 weeks a year out of term time, who looks after the school age kid? What is your other routine?

My thoughts too, smithecat

Treats could be stickers, too.

How will they know if you make the lunch the night before??

No no they are certainly not perfect sleepers. More like late sleepers. 8.30pm - 7am

We start getting ready for sleep around 6.30 and in bed 7-7.30 but it takes awhile to fall alseep and ironically the 4 year old is the last to fall asleep after 8.30pm. Which is why they need their sleep and I feel bad waking them up. And I have tried waking them earlier but it doesn't make them go to sleep earlier either. Believe me I have tried so many things to try and get them sleeping earlier and waking earlier.

On weekends they naturally sleep in until after 8 usually.

Dh usually gets home to help with bedtime but I think it will be better for him to just come home later anyway. As it will make mornings easier.

I don't know how he knows about pre made lunches. He is ultra sensitive about food. If I sneakily made it the night before he would not eat it and when I asked what was wrong with it he says it was old or rotten maybe the texture is different or something?