To ask for details of your average day?

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I'm sorry if this has been done before - couldn't find it.

Just really interested in others' days, what time you get up and go to bed, what kind of work / chores you do on an average weekday?

I drink heavily and watch telly.

Sorry no, sent too soon, I run 10k before everyone gets up in tight white shorts and then go to my very important job.
Then I bleach the house and cook from scratch for all the neighbours.

Average weekday for me is
Up at 7
Sort/dress everyone out for the day
School run
Clean the house/play with 2yr old
Lunchtime
Nap time (make tea)
Handover to nanny who then does school run, tea, bed etc
Off to work
Back by half eight
Eat tea
Continue computer work
Bed

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday are the same for me week in week out;
6:00 - wake up, coffee, get ready for work.
7:00 - wake DS1 and DS2 - get DS2 ready for nursery and leave by 7:20. DS1 stays at home and gets himself to school.
7:45 - arrive at work - I work for an accountancy firm.
17:30 - finish work, collect DS2 from nursery.
18:00 - arrive home, cook dinner, put a wash on.
19:00 - play with kids, quick tidy up, bath time for DS2.
20:00 - bed time for DS2
20:10 - clean up kitchen, help DS1 with any homework he has, hang washing to dry.
21:00 - shower.
21:15 - get in bed, DS2 usually gets in with me to watch something with me or chat for half an hour before he goes to sleep.

Wednesdays are a non working day for me, so I get up a bit later (7:00), see DS1 off to school, then DS1 and I potter at home until 09:00 when we head out to do the food shopping.
10:00-12:00 - playing at home or we head out somewhere.
12:00 - home for lunch.
12:30 - DS2’s nap time, I do jobs around the house.
14:00 onwards - playing again, or we go back out for an hour or so.
15:30 - DS1 home from school.
Then it’s the same as above except DS1 goes to football from 17:30-19:00.

Weekends are more relaxed but usually involve more shopping, cleaning, more laundry, going out as a family, football match and futsal, family visits etc. All very boring really when I put it down like this!

@Fallsballs I want your day

The first not the latter obvs!

5-6am - 14mo wakes and proceeds to scream at the top of his lungs.

6am - realises the baby is not going back to bed and reluctantly get up and stumble downstairs toward the TV.

7am - remaining children arrive demanding Netflix and toast.

7-8.30am - scramble around cleaning and drawing people, then redressing and re cleaning things.

8.40 - leave for school always 10 minutes late.

9.05am - school drop off complete.

9.30am - drop baby with CM

9.30 - 2.30pm work like a champion. I'm a freelance PR consultant.

2.30pm - pick up baby

3.20 - pick up remaining children

3.50 - arrive home. Brace self for oncoming relentless demands.

4.15 - start cooking dinner whilst pretending I can't hear the constant high pitched whining emanating from 14month old as he tries to position himself between me and the counter. This will last for however long it takes to cook dinner.

5.30pm - dinner is served and immediately rejected and thrown on floor.

5.45pm - check how long until I can reasonably put them to bed

5.55pm - nope, still too early

6pm - still too early

6.15pm -finally bath time. 14mo spends this time saying, 'mama' as many times as he can. This is not annoying at all.

6.45pm - everyone runs around naked, screaming.

7.15pm - baby bed. He'll say, 'mama' a few more times to be sure it's me.

7.45 - remaining children in bed. Well have read approximately 13 stories and made beds for 9.5 cuddly toys

8pm - cook myself dinner

8.05pm - eat dinner

8.10pm - exercise

8.30 - collapse in head

8.35 - 10pm - scroll mindlessly on phone, do a bit more work. Half an eye on Love Island.

10pm - read in bed

11.55pm - wake up with iPad on face to ballistic streaming from baby

12.30am - back to sleep. Find space has been taken by middle child. Go to spare room. Sleep.

3.30am - ballistic screaming

5.am - silence. But I am awake.

And then it all begins again. 😬😱🤪😂😭😭😭😭😴

Mon to Sat
Fall out of bed about 7.30
Go to work
Get back about 8
Cook
Eat and telly
Bed more telly.

Sunday. Absolutely nothing (except telly)

06:00 wake up, get ready for work. Get the children sorted for school

07:30 drop child at childminder's and go to work

16:30 home from work, collect child, cook tea, do washing/housework

18:00 take children to activities/clubs

20:00 shower and chat with kids/check homework done

20:30 watch TV

22:00 bed

Gym day: up 5.45, gym at 6, home for shower by 7. This is supposed to happen 3 days a week but in truth I'm doing well if I average 1.5
Non-gym day: up at 6.30, leave for work around 7.30
DH is a currently SAHD so I do a bit of teeth brushing and chivvyng here and there but he is basically in charge of kid wrangling and school runs.
Work 8.30-6.00, occasionally with a proper lunch break, but mostly grabbing a sandwich at my desk
Home 7.00: kids into PJs, chattering about their days, stories and bedtime
8.00 DH and I alternate cooking and tidying.
Eat dinner, fall asleep in front of TV.

If I'm working from home, awake at 7.30, get a brew, at my desk by 8. Working almost solidly (might put the odd wash on) until lunchtime when I sometimes indulge in my #1 guilty pleasure, a weekday lunch nap, or walk into the city to get shopping/food/do errands. Then working from home again til 5. Then gym, cooking, lounging in front of Netflix or gaming, bath.

If I'm in the office, up at 6, quick shower and dressed, in the car by 6.30, office by 8ish Work in very relaxed office with plenty of coffee breaks and relatively long lunches until 6, back in car, home by 7ish, same as above. I don't have a super exciting life but I do have a LOT of relaxing baths!

My days are very variable. My wake up time depends on if I'm working in the office, travelling to see clients, or working from home, but generally is either 630am or 730am. Then it's shower, breakfast etc., which takes me 45 mins - an hour. Work is roughly 830 - 5pm. Monday nights I stay at work til 630pm then go to choir 7 - 9. Tuesdays and Thursdays I'll cook something simple and zone out watching TV. Weds and Fridays we've instituted a no screens rule so it'll be a more elaborate meal, eaten at the table followed by reading a novel or my new Granta subscription, or sometimes we'll go to 241 movies on a Weds, or out with friends on a Fridays. Saturdays are slob around the house doing bits of jobs or running errands. Sunday is church in the morning and usually seeing friends in the afternoon. I try to keep on top of laundry and cleaning on my work from home days to free up time in the evenings and weekends. I definitely watch too much TV and do too little exercise.

6.20 alarm goes off
6.40 get up, bathroom for morning routine etc
7.10 out of shower, feed & water cats, dry off & get dressed
7.20 wake up DD, help her get dressed, dry hair
7.30 do makeup
7.40 feed dog, run round madly finding shoes and changing work clothes, sorting lunch, getting out the door
8am drop DD at breakfast club
8.30 get to work
5.45 normally leave work. Sometimes earlier but often about now.
6.15 home
6.15-7 play with DD, do homework, prep dinner
7-7.30 DD bath, getting ready for bed
7.30-8.30 do DD bedtime
8.30 cook dinner, feed dog, do dishwasher, get washing on etc
8.30-10 eat dinner, hang up washing, watch telly, bit of work etc
10-10.30 fanny around getting ready for bed
10.30 bed, but generally lie awake not able to sleep until about 11.30. I'm tired.

I'm an inpatient on a psychiatric ward. This gives a rough example

8am - wake up and listen for food trolley - get up when I hear it! Eat breakfast.
9am - have morning meds
9.15 - morning meeting (check in how everyone is and put our names down for groups)
10am fresh air/cigarette depending on preference
10.30am OT group - Increasing Self Esteem or Healthy Living or listening to podcasts/DBT Skills group
11.30am Nursing group - painting nails or arts and crafts or playing the games console
12 noon Lunchtime
12.30 Lunchtime meds
1pm Therapy or 1:1 with support worker/go out for lunch or to shops or park
2pm - Recovery college workshops - all sorts. Today I did one to enable me to be on a panel to interview new staff/1:1 OT work - cooking or public transport.
3pm - fresh air/smoke
3.30pm - psychology group - Mindfulness
4.30pm - nursing group - relaxation or board games
5pm - dinner
5.30pm after dinner meds
6pm Social club or might walk to local shop
7pm - debrief
7.30pm - fresh air/smoke
8pm watch tv/chill in room
9pm night meds
10.30 sleep

Just realised I never said about showering and getting dressed - we do do that too!

Up at 5.45, but not out of bed until 6.
Shower, make up and get dressed
Wake the kids at 6.30
Get them to brush teeth, get dressed for school
Downstairs for 7. Make coffee in my travel mug, put lunch items into lunch boxes... and defrost car
Out of the house for 7.20
Kids dropped at school breakfast club at 7.30
Commute to work
Arrive stressed due to awful traffic at 8.30
Work until 4.30
Drive back
Pick up kids 5.30/5.45
Get home 6
Make dinner and feed kids by 6.45
Whilst cooking get kids to do homework / listen to their reading
Kids in the bath by 7
Get DS aged 5 to bed by 7.30
Go downstairs and eat my dinner
Put wash on / take out of the machine
Make sure DD aged 9 is in bed 8.30
Get uniforms ready for the next day
Get my clothes ready for the next day
Get ready for bed about 9pm
In bed about 9.15
Watch an hour of tv / read a book
Asleep by 10.30

Rinse and repeat

Alarm at 7. Get up about 715 get ready for work and wake up DS. DH stays asleep for a bit. 745 a quick breakfast and both leave at 8. I'm at work til 530 then home. Have a cup of tea and a sit down til about 630. Then do dinner and make lunch for the next day. Put a load of washing on and do the dishwasher. Catch up with work bits and pieces at 8 til 9. Read or TV or exercise til 1015 when I pick up DH from work. Chat and a cup of tea. Bed about 1130.

5am - alarm goes off. Get up

6am - set off on my 53 mile journey to work.

7.30am - get to work. Do shit. Get shit done. Eat lunch. Do more shit.

3.30pm - go home.

5pm - cook tea

9pm - she of tiredness. Go to bed.

5am - repeat the above.

If I’m not working:

Up at 7am
Make breakfast for the DC and chat
Send DS1 on his way to school via school coach
Dress DS2, wash, teeth, brush his hair
Get ready myself

Leave house at 8:25 to take Ds2 to school, back at 9:10

Chores until about 11:30 - some laundry, prep dinner, tidying, make beds, may run hoover over

Sit down and watch Netflix or something until 1pm when I go and collect DS2

Play with Ds2 until 4:25 when we go and collect DS1

Come home, chat, supervise any homework, make and eat dinner, watch something on tv as a family, final tidy up of the day, get clothes ready for the next day, bath time and bedtime for the DC at about 8pm, then I make packed lunches for the next day, chill, maybe phone my parents, and bed at 10ish.

If I’m working:

Up at 6:30, out of the house by 7:25

Work

Home at 5:50

A few chores, make and eat dinner, final tidy up of the day, try to watch a nature programme on tv as a family, bath and bedtime for the DC at 8ish, tv for me and then bed at about 10pm

She of tiredness, ha ha. Die*

8am Get up and feed dog and make a cup of tea to take back to bed
9am Get up, shower, breakfast and walk dog.
10.30 am Coffee and read book/do studying or go into town (nails, hair, shopping etc)
12.30 Lunch
1pm Cup of tea and nap
2pm Walk dog
3pm Do some house work, go to supermarket, prep dinner
5pm Put on TV and watch shite
7.30pm DH home from work so eat and chat and watch more TV
10pm Bed

God I love being retired!

Typical working from home day
06:00 - get woken by cat sitting on face or slurping at their arsehole in front of face.
06:01 - tell cat to piss off
06:02 - attempt to go back to sleep
06:08 - give up and get out of bed
06:09 - attempt to get into bathroom without cat following
06:10 - try to urinate in peace, ignoring cat scratching at door.
06:11 - get coffee
06:12 - go back to bed, drink coffee and peruse internet on iPad.
06:13 - give attention seeking cat attention
07:00 - get up, wash, dress
07:05 - give attention seeking cat attention
07:30 - put food down for cat, receive look of disgust.
07:35 - unlock cat flap
07:36 - open door for cat that refuses to use cat flap
07:37 - open door again to let cat back in rather than listen to constant cat flap banging because cat pretends it doesn’t know how to use cat flap.
07:45 - turn computer on
08:00 - do work stuff whilst constantly interrupted by attention seeking cat
16:00 - turn computer off
16:05 - call cat and lock cat flap
16:45 - feed cat
17:00 - dinner
18:50 - go swimming
21:00 - get home
21:05 - eat snack, watch telly, watch cat be mental for twenty minutes
22:00 - bed
22:02 - get kicked in head by cat who wants to sleep on pillow.
22:03 - tell cat to piss off
00:10 - listen to cat race around house at top speed.
00:15 - get used as springboard for cat to practice jumping technique
01:00 - listen to cat slurping disgustingly at self
01:05 - tell cat to shut up /piss off.
01:30 - fall asleep

Typical working a shift day
Get up when alarm goes off (usually 2 hrs before shift start) or cat does above
Wash, dress etc
Coffee
Drive to station
Wander around trying to find allocated vehicle
Pre shift checks
Paper, scissor, stone to determine who drives first
Log on, get first job immediately.
Work for 10 hours
Finish late
Drive home
Shower
Eat
Bed

Typical working in office day
Same as working from home except timings and;
Leave at either 06:30 or 07:30 depending on Office destination
Get coffee on the way
Do work stuff
Attend meetings
Realise I hate offices
Go home
Cat attention
Dinner
Go swimming
Get home
Snack
Bed

Typical day off
Bed.
Stay in bed.
Move to sofa.
Watch telly.
Do work and get annoyed with self for doing work on day off.
Sometimes do something with friends
Go swimming
Etc etc

Oh, I do clean my house and all that shit when I can be arsed. No routine for that.

6:30 wake and sort children breakfast, get dressed etc...

8:15 take kids to school then head to work

3:30 pick up children from school and take to clubs etc..

6 get home from clubs etc.. and cook dinner

7 bath kids and help get to bed, stories, PJs etc..

8:30 start evening job (wfh)

12 go to bed

6:00-wake up, get ready
7:00-wakekids up have breakfast
7:30-get kids ready
8:30- leave for school
9:00- get home
9:30 – 10:30- baby clubs
11:30-leave for nursery weekdays.
12:00- get home.
12:15- lunch.
3:00- leave for school.
3:30-get home, kids play.
6:00-have dinner
7:30– kids go to bed. I clean house. Talk to DH
10:00-go to bed. Watch tv
11:00-sleep