to really struggle with the school run, how does your morning look?

[MumOnTheFun]

I snooze from 7.20 until 7.40 whilst DH gives breakfast. I will help with getting DC aged 4 dressed and sorted then DH does school run at 8.30 whilst I attempt to wake up.

If DH is working I will get up at 7.30 and struggle to get moving. Similar routine except I walk to school and feel embarrassed to walk to school with no makeup and hair shot in a bobble.

Even if I go to bed earlier amd get up earlier I really struggle to be alert before 9am

6.30am baby has milk, then I shower
7am wake up 6 year old, she gets dressed while I dress baby
7.20am 6 year old has breakfast, bit of tv, I do my make up and hair in this time
8.15am I yell about 20 times for shoes to be put on then we leave
Lunchboxes and bags are done the night before, I hang her uniform up on her door.
I agree it doesn't sound like you are pulling your weight, you need to prep everything the night before if you struggle to get moving.

I'm not a morning person but when you have kids you just have to get on with it. Just get up and go. I never have my make up or hair done for the school run, it really doesn't matter. If you only have one DC it should be easy.

So your husband works FT and also gets the kids fed and does the school run - while you struggle to get out of bed by 7:30? He must love you dearly - I certainly wouldn't be indulging that kind of behavior!!

I struggled before having kids but now I just get up and get on with it. We are all out of the house by 7:30am

When does dh get to "snooze" then?

Dh: out of house, washed & dressed by 5:30
Me: up at 6:40 to shower;
Get 6 yo up for shower & get stressed;
Wash & dress 2 yo
Downstairs by 7:10
Feed kids breakfast
Pack lunchboxes for me & kids
Have dispensed with make up (part of me weeps for the old me, but mostly I enjoy the freedom)
7:30 rally the troops to get shoes and coats on
7:40 out of the house to drop kids at childminder/breakfast club
8:10 arrive at work

I am permanently exhausted. But I have to get on with it. I would so dearly love someone else to take over the morning routine for me, or even have the chance to have a couple of hours to myself. But it's not to be.

Who on earth needs to put on make up for the school run?

I’m loving my light at the end of the tunnel. Last dc just started uni and early mornings are a thing of the past. Something to look forward to!

You get up late!

I am up 6.45am, coffee/wake up til 7.15am.

Get dressed/make up. Prep breakfast. Kids are downstairs eating by 7.45am. Do lunches, kids do teeth etc. Tv on, diaries signed. Sort washing out, dishwasher etc.

Out 8.20am

I'm dreadful in the morning so I get up earlier than I need to so that my brain has time to get into gear. A nice slow shower helps.

I've got a Lumie alarm clock,which has really helped me with my waking up.

I'm curious as to what you regard an early night because quite frankly 7:40 as a mother of small children is ridiculous. Even if you were "getting by" on just 7.5 hours sleep you're still going to bed at midnight. That's not early.

6-7:30 shout "get in your own bed" "stop punching your brother" "stop banging/jumping/soaking the bathroom" "please let mummy have just one coffee before you start".

7:30 breakfast

8-8:25 shout get dressed, shoes on, no not those shoes - school shoes!, Why are you wearing your brother's trousers? Brush your teeth, no you ARE wearing a coat I don't care what the other kids wear.

8:25 they leave for the bus

8:35 I assume they're on it

You stay in bed till 7.40am whilst your working husband does everything to get the kids ready? I'd of told you to piss right off especially if you are not even really working and effectively get 9am-3pm to chill at home on your own whilst your kids are at school.

Set your alarm and get up at 7am, if it takes you 1 hour to get alert you will be woken up by 8am in perfect time for school run.

It's really not rocket science now is it!

Is this a reverse??

7 am wake up
7:05 try to refit my four year old trying to convince me to go back to bed
7:10 get him clean and dressed
7:15 sit him at the table with breakfast
7:20 teeth brushed and dressed
7:25 hair and make up done
7:30 cup of tea
7:35 get other child out of bed
7:40 nappy change/teeth
7:45 dressed
7:50 downstairs for shoes/bags
7:55 out of the house
8:00 youngest in nursery
8:10 get in car
8:25 reach school gate

*resist not refit

I struggle to get up but I have to because there's only me

I am dreadful in the mornings. I find an alarm clock placed across the room so I have to get out of bed to stop it makes me get up.

TRY THIS - it tells you when to go to bed so you get up at the end of a sleep cycle

Get a Lumia clock.

Set it to start a good 45 mins before you really need to be up.

Get. Up.

I hate it too.
I'm just not a morning person especially at this time of year. But you just have to suck it up. I have four dc to get up and out of the door for 8.15 to be dropped off at various schools.
I love the weekends and school holidays!

7am get up
kids eat breakfast, I get me dressed in trakkies and tshirt
7.30 kids get ready
8ish we get in the car and go.
8.25 I drop DD at the bus stop she needs to be at for the bus to pick them up at 8.25
8.40 I drop DS at his school.
9.15 I get home, then I shower, dress properly, eat breakfast and get on with my day.

I am not a morning person, I rarely get more than 5 hours sleep due to DS's disabilities.

I dont actually have to see anyone in the morning, my DD is dropped at her bus stop where there is a designated adult that gets them on the bus, then DS is just evicted from the car as his school has a drop off point (Special Ed School) where the TA's meet them and walk them inside, so its easier for me just to get myself showered and dressed in peace when I get home after 9am.

So you know you take 2 hours to be fully alert in the mornings - so you need to shift when the 2 hours starts.

I'm not a morning person either, I understand the "can't wake up quickly" feeling, so I don't try to wake up quickly, I give myself time to do it.

Set your alarm for 6:20am instead of 7:20. Snooze for a max 20 minutes, then force yourself in the shower.

While it might be tempting to stay in bed until the latest possible moment, that's actually making your problems worse, not better.

(This is something most "not a morning person" people learned in their early 20s, you seem to have missed that life lesson - if you need 2 hours, you give yourself 2 hours, not 1 hour and feel like shit for another hour because you can't wake up and be ready to start the day in 1 hour)

we dont have a school run as they are home educate but we go to sleep anything between 6-8am as both are disabled and one of their disabilities is bad sleeping.

You really get to sleep at 6am??

What kind of disability includes bad sleeping? I assume you don’t mean bad sleeping, just sleeping at different times than most people use during the day? How long do they sleep for when they are asleep?

I'm up often from 3am, unless I've taken a sleeping tablet to help me get through until about 5.30. Kids are one or the other shouty/up/sleep talking etc in the night so it wakes me. We're often up from 5.30am though. No one cares about what any of us parents look like on the school run. We're in an average area - most mums have to work, barely anyone wears make up. No one judges. I think sometimes women over think it? As in, HAVE to wear make up, etc. I think, as long as you get your kid into school on time, fed, clean, etc, mostly no one except the weird vacuous ones care about what the mother looks like.

If you;re really, really struggling to wake up, maybe you need to see a GP.