my day goes like this.
5.30am dh gets up. 8yo SEN DS is also awake, i spend the next hour trying to keep him quiet to stop him disturbing 5yo DD and keeping him out of DH's wat while he's trying to get ready for work, quite often he ends up in my bed chatting to me about random whatever until i crack and give him the tablet so i can sleep.
6.30am dh goes to work, i let DS and DD go downstairs, try and go back to sleep, usually fail because they're arguing because DS is bouncing off the walls and the cat comes up to hide from them and sits on my bed shouting at me.
7.20 i get up, get dressed, sort their clothes out, go downstairs, do their breakfast, feed the cat, tidy up the mess they've made, have a wash, get them dressed, make their lunches, do my hair, do dd's hair, get shoes, hats, gloves, coats on.
8.30am we leave for school, i usually have to pick a friends ds up on the way.
8.45 get to school, take dd to her class, go to DS's class, make sure he's put his coat away, lunch box on the trolley, got his glasses on and his sensory chew around his neck. Have a quick conflab with the teacher about how he is that day/what kind of night he's had. I also touch base with the Senco.
9.10 get back home, have my own breakfast before starting on the daily housework. So laundry.. load in the washing machine, take the last load off the radiators and put it away. Clean out the cat litter, tidy up the morning chaos properly, wash the breakfast dishes (no dishwasher here), dry up put them away, take washing out of the machine, put it out on the radiators, then i hoover, make the beds.
Its usually about 11am by this point. From here on in my week diverges depending on the day.
Mon/Weds i sometimes have to take DS to therapy or drs appts or have TAC meetings at school, or i'm volunteering there, so i mix those up with doing the household jobs like cleaning the bathroom/kitchen or doing the bedrooms/changing the beds, hoovering the hall/stairs/landing. Admin...etc i will also nap to catch up on missed sleep if DS has had a bad night (sometimes i only get 3hrs sleep)
Tues/Thurs are my days i go help my mom, so i'm doing her housework, taking her shopping, walking her dog and generally keeping her company.
Friday i have to do my own shopping in the morning, in the afternoon i take DS swimming with his school as he needs 1-2-1 supervision which they can't provide, so i do it!
3pm, i leave to pick the kids up, usually pick friends son up too, check in with DS's teacher on his day... so i take friends son home, tell her about his day (he also has SEN), come home. Supervise the kids (i repeat, they fight constantly because of DS who is very hyped after the day and cant be left alone or he gets destructive)
prep dinner.
5pm DH comes home, i cook dinner, feed the cat and DH showers and we tag-team keeping an eye on DS, we eat, we clear up, we get 30 mins to sit and relax
7pm bedtime routine starts.. takes anything up to 45 mins depending on how quickly DS will settle. i come downstairs and tidy up the last two hours child chaos, put clothes in the wash basket...etc
8pm onwards, relaxing between putting DS back to bed as he gets up at least 3 or 4 times a night.
1am i call it quits and go to bed.. and i usually get disturbed at least 2-3 more times by DS or DD over the night. DH tries to help, but DS insists on it being me or he has a meltdown.
To be honest, i dont have time for a job!! If any of you WOHM are doing all of that on top of a FT job, i salute you!!