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?

Whinge, cry, bitch, scream, huff.
And that’s all before 8am.
Work
Come home, whinge, scream, shout, bitch and have wine to sleep on sofa and repeat the same shit again

Getting jealous reading some of these. I’m on maternity leave so my days have no clear start or end.

Let’s say the day starts at 7am when the 3 yr old bursts in my room shouting ‘mummy wake up, it’s morning! Mummy mummy mummy!’. This is usually twenty mins after I’ve finally dozed off with the baby.

My husband then takes him off for breakfast and Paw Patrol while I fall back to sleep. (This joy will end when my husband goes back to work).

The day is then spent feeding the baby while trying to entertain the relentlessly active three year old. At some point I will attempt to leave the house for coffee and a escape from all the playing - 3 year old will not want to leave. When he’s finally been persuaded, baby will start crying for a feed. 3 year old will then wee himself.

At some point we’ll have lunch and maybe an activity at the library/playgroup or meet up with friends. After 4pm feel it’s ok to collapse in front of TV together. At 5 the 3 year old eats his tea. He might have a bath if we have enough energy. Then at 6.30 begin his bedtime routine, usually slowed down with a few tantrums.

After 7pm my husband and I eat and catch up with all the housework we can’t do with whirlwind 3 year old around. By about 8.30
I am falling asleep, which will be the baby’s cue to wake and want to feed every 1-2 hours through the night. She then settles for a longer sleep, just in time for 3 year old to enthusiastically run in my bedroom at 7am...

Typical day:

Alarm at 5.20 quick bath then exercise class 6-6.50
Home at 7am quick bath and dress and get ready for work. Wake up teenager. Spend next half an hr chivvying her along. Start work (childminder) at 730.
Breakfasts and wake other child at 8am ish.
830 teeth cleaned and out for school run at 845.
After school run we usually go out on an outing or to a toddler group.
3pm afternoon school run back home and have a snack with the kids and a run around in the garden/homework/crafts.
6pm evening meal, usually dh is around to cook it then some nights I'll have a meeting/class to go to.
830 younger child goes to bed
Watch a bit telly
10pm me dh and teen all go to bed.

Bit boring really.

@bangwhistle this was my life years ago which I had forgotten about I may now have PTS !! I promise it doesn't get easier only different !!

5.30am - Woken up by hungry cats.
5.31am - Feed cats, wash cat dishes, change into activewear.
6am - Exercise using fitness app
6.30am - shower
6.50am - breakfast
7.10am - Boycat sits on my lap for a cuddle. I battle between staying on the sofa all day with a cat on me vs going to work. Realise I need to pay for cat food somehow so eventually get up 😂
7.30-8.30- make lunch, dry hair, get dressed, put on makeup (yes I take ages! )
8.30am - leave for work
6.30pm - get home (unless I go to supermarket on way home); immediately feed two cats who you'd think had been cruelly starved all day if you listened to them Get out of work clothes into pyjamas comfy clothes.
6.45-7.30pm - Dinner
7.30pm - 8.30pm - Netflix / iPad
8.30pm - cuddles with Girlcat
9-10pm - read in bed
10pm - go to sleep

Get up at 6am with 14mo DS
DP goes back to bed for an hour while I do breakfast and cbeebies.
Leave for work 7.45 (DP is SAHD, I work FT)
Get to work 8.45
Finish work about 4.30
Get home 5.45
Play and get DS ready for bed, start getting tea together.
DS bed about 7.30
Our tea at 8.00
Crash out on settee 9.00
Bed 9.30-10.00

Big shop on Saturdays, visit my dad on Sundays.

No time for anything at the moment though I did have half day yesterday so went swimming for first time in over 10 years, it was great.

@mintyt FML 😂😭

Wake up briefly at 8am to say by to dh &dd
Once they've gone go back to bed
Sometimes don't get up until late morning depending on if I am struggling with fibromyalgia fatigue.
Once I do get up I have a shower/ walk dog
Have lunch
Go to work.

If it's a good week, I obviously get up earlier and try and meet with friends catch up on jobs that I didn't do on a bad week.

Get up at 6am.
Leave for work about 7.00am and cycle 7 miles for the commute
I’m a university lecturer so spend the day in a mix of meeting students, teaching, lesson prep.
Leave work about 4pm and cycle home.
Do a few chores like sorting laundry, dishwasher out
Eat some toast
Get to the gym and spend 60-90 mins at the gym.
Get home.
Shower.
Check emails.
Go to sleep about 10.30-11pm.

6.06 get up and ready for work.
7.30 leave for work
8am-3.15pm work
3.45pm - 5pm housework
5pm- 7pm dinner, clear up, get ready for tomorrow
7pm -10pm either dance class or life admin and tv or WI paperwork and tv or WI
10pm bed

Awake at 0330
Up at around 0355
Out the door for 0430
30 minutes brisk walk to train station
0500 train
0515 Arrive at train station and transfer to bus (because suburban trains aren't running at that point)
0545 Walk to work
0630 at the latest start work
1500 at the latest finish work
Decompress for about an hour
1600 go home via shops
1830 try to relax
1900 start to get ready for bed.
2030 at the latest go to bed.

6:30 - Get up, wash, dress, drink tea, look at the internet
7:30 - Leave for work
8:00 - 16:00 work
17:00 - 18:00 Get home, have bath, have dinner
19:00 - 21/22:00 Household tasks, read, use internet.
Then bed.

All v. humdrum.

6:30am wake up.
Dog walk round the block or play ball. Quick coffee whilst doing makeup then dog goes back to bed with DP (he works nights)
07:35 drive to work
07:55 usually at work around this time or before depending on traffic
08:00 work starts - theatre scrub nurse/trainee first assistant so day varies hugely. Sometimes get a morning coffee break, sometimes don’t. Lunch will be anytime between 12:00-14:00. Again might get an afternoon coffee, might not.
17:30-19:00 work finishes! I leave when the work has finished, we don’t get relieved
I sometimes go to a spin class but more often than not go on days off or half days so usually 3 days a week at the gym
Get home and make dinner or heat up what I’ve prepared before. Sit with DP, talk about day. He gets up around 1 and has walked the dog. Sometimes I take her again in the evening if I’m feeling sluggish. Shower before or after dinner.
8-10pm watch some TV, play/cuddle with dog. No DC
10pm off to bed! Might scroll through phone for half an hour or so but generally like to be asleep by 11 latest

Recent change at work so having to do a lot of travel for the next 3 months.

6.20am alarm goes off - usually already up based on when DD decides to wake up, anytime from 5am to 6.20am

Wash, dress, breakfast, scramble around trying to find book bag stuff that should be in the book bag but isn't for whatever reason.

7.45am leave for breakfast club then straight to train station

8.24am get on train to London (1hr direct if I'm lucky otherwise it's the 8.32am which stops everywhere)

9.30am ish - get into St Pancras and head for underground

10am ish - get off the tube and walk to HQ

5.30pm ish - walk to tube and do whole journey in reverse

7.30pm ish - get home. DD is in bed so grab whatever food is in the fridge and can be eaten without much prep/cooking. Say hello to DH who left the house before I woke up.

7.45pm - turn on laptop and do some more work.

10pm ish - turn off laptop and watch something stupid like True Blood, or The Good Place on TV.

11pm ish - go to bed

Wednesday and Thursdays

7.30 Up feed dogs and dressed
8.30 walk dd halfway to school
9.00-4.00 college
4.00-10.00 work
10.00 shower then bed

Non working days
7.30 get up feed dogs
8.30 dd walks to school
9.00- Clean house do assignments etc
17.00 - cook tea
18-10.00 watch shit telly

I get up at.6.30am and put the coffee on the stove then feed the cat.

Then I go outside and feed the dogs and then the chickens.

Next I wake my DD's up....DH will already have left for work between 5.30am and 6.00am.

I spend an hour hassling the DD"s to get ready for school.

I walk my younger DD to school even though she's well old enough to do it alone....she likes me to do it and I figure that one day I'll remember these times with fondness.

Then I go home past the bakery and on about 2 or 3 days out of 5 I will buy my breakfast there.

Sometimes my friend pops up and comes home with me for a coffee.

Then at about 10.00am I start work. I work from home as a copywriter.

Kids get home about 3.30 and I give them something to eat and if they have a friend with them then they racket round for a few hours.

Start cooking dinner.

DH home about 6.00pm...we all eat and then chill for the evening.

No DC
Early shift

5.45am up for work, shower, makeup, make lunch, eat breakfast, feed cat
7.10am ish leave for work
7.25am arrived at work and vape/drink coffee
7.45am start work (log in at 8am)
4.30pm leave work
5pm arrive home

Late shifts are 7.15am get up and leave house at 8.45am, finish work at6pm and home for 6.20pm

Evenings vary but home, shower, eat tea, 30 mins cleaning, laundry, Netflix

Usually head to bed anywhere between 9.30pm - midnight depending how tired I am

According to mumsnet I sit on my arse, eat biscuits and watch tv all day everyday whilst h slaves away at work.

Up 7ish and everyone is dressed and fed. Husband goes to work, I do the school run at 8.30

During the day I go to various baby groups, or to my grandparents for lunch, sometimes go for a coffee at Trafford centre as I live close. Go home, tidy up, prepare dinner before the school run.

Hectic when the older two are home, it’s a race
Of cleaning, feeding, ironing uniforms, and getting the boys washed and changed before they. One
Downstairs to do homework and then they have supper before bed at7. We do a couple
Of stories together and they generally then read until 7.30 before lights out. Then I go to the gym,
And spend most of the night feeding the baby into a milk sleep whilst watching Netflix and making quiet conversation with my husband!

6.30 Get up, get dd1 and dd2 up. Breakfast, showers etc
7.30 out of house. To childcare then work.
8.15 to 4pm work
4-5pm commute at pick up kids.
5-8pm kid time, dinner together - I cook or prepare prebatchcooked meals, kids clubs - various ones each day. Some days clubs before dinner (snack first). Some days clubs after. Some days no clubs. Younger dc also fed dinner at childare.
8-9 kids go to bed. (early secondary and yr6 age)
9-10 me time, telly, mumsnet.
I'm single mum.

More relaxed at weekend, relaxing but also go to local parks, swimming, kids friends houses, bowling, cinema. etc.
Supermarket shop at weekends too and dc sport club on Sunday am.

I'm self employed part time. I have no partner.
School week: alarm at 7.15 think ugh don't want to get up
7.30 get daughter up for school. This may take a few tries.
7.30-8.20: let dogs out feed rabbits call daughter again to get up. I shower, get dressed maybe empty dishwasher or put on laundry.
8.30 daughter heads off to school, I head off to meet other school mum friends for coffee (or to school too where I volunteer once a week). Text son at his girlfriend's to make sure he is up and ready for college/ work.
9.30 leave friends head home to take dogs for walk.
One day a week do 10.30-4 work from home with assistant. Otherwise:
11 head to gym three days a week. If not gym maybe shop or other chores out and about.
1: home for lunch, play some games on phone, read papers
2-4.40: work.
4.40 daughter comes home we chat about her day. Son may also drift in.

1. Dog walk.
2. Piano lesson for daughter or start getting dinner ready.

7 we settle down to dinner and couple episodes of box set. 9.30 daughter goes up for homework and bed. I switch to more adult tv (usually scandi drama). Feed rabbits 11. TV off then kitchen tidy up get ready for bed Midnight: bed to read for a bit then lights out!

Weekends are slow and domestic and I try and just get stuff done around the house. Son walks dogs. Used to be sports dominated with my son but he's stopped that now (he spends half his life at the gym instead).

Feed baby, feed the rest of the family, do the nursery run, come home and do some light chores, make lunch, have a cat nap, do nursery run again, do more light chores, have food, bathe everyone, put toddler to bed, then try get some sleep between 7/8pm and midnight before I take the baby again for the night.
Currently my partners been on nights so I don't get my chance to sleep in the evening only sporadically here and there in the night when baby goes to sleep

Up at 6

Out of house at 7 am

Home by 7 pm

Bed by 9 pm

Envious of people who have so much time to themselves.

Being out of the house for 12 hours a day is grueling.

Up at 6.30
Tea and cereal
7.30 out to feed animals - sheep, horses and chickens - sort feed, water and hay check all are looking ok
Check fences chat to the sheep
Muck out pony
Clean out chicken coops once a week
Back to house
Feed dogs and cats
Make tea and toast watch crap tv while eating second breakfast
Day then involves walking the dogs, gardening, poo pick up, general stuff that needs doing re the animals and housework
If we have guests arriving in our shepherds hut I get that ready
Lunch in there somewhere
Spend far too much time on the internet
Afternoon feed the animals again check they are set for the night
Go out later and lock chickens up check on sheep again who are all indoors because of all this bloody rain
Eat dinner drink wine watch crap TV
10pm late night animal check
Bed

Alarm at 5
Get out of bed about 5.30
Get ready, leave house about 6.30
Get to work at 7 (teacher)
Leave work between 5 and 7 depending on meetings etc
Get home and have dinner with DH and DC
7.30 DD in bath and DDs bedtime
8.30 DD asleep, have own shower and get ready for bed
9.00 DS gets ready for bed and we normally have a chat in my room
10.00 sleep