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Calling all organisation guru's need supernanny type routine

5 replies

raggedyanna · 07/06/2006 08:50

Ok I need help, I cant seem to get on top of everything!!!
Here is a sample day...
7.30 Up, dressed, ds up.
7.45 DS/me fed, dh up and shower

  1. ds dressed
8.30 Load of wash, tidy kitchen from bfast/ds trashing lounge 9.15 Social activity of some sort (nursery if I am working/music, walk or visiting playmates if I am not working. 10.15 Morning tea One on one play time (painting/ huts/ outdoors 11.45 Lunch 12.45 ds down for a rest (no longer has a day nap) (tidy lounge/tidy up kitchen from lunch/make necessary calls/organise bills/go through mail/if time one job such as toilets/bathroom 1.45 ds up/ stories/ quiet activities 2.30 afternoon tea
  1. Go for a walk as ds loses the plot about this time
4.30 Heat up a pre prepared meal for ds/ sit with him while he eats Prep meal with ds "help", he stirs/"washes dishes" "packs and unpacks dishwasher" etc 5.30 Bathtime 6 Dh home, we eat together and ds joins us
  1. Ds teeth/stories and bed
7.30 Clean up from meal/ package and freeze extra for ds 4.30 meal (which he needs by the way he has 4 biggish meals (bfast/lunch/tea/tea and 2 snacks) he seems to need to eat every two hours give or take no matter what we feed him. Tidy lounge/ Put wash away/ 8.30 Time with dh

Ok so when do I get everything else done... the washing is behind/ the hoovering is a joke/ my floors dont know what a mop is (in fact I would be suprised if ds knew what it was), my oven well dont even go there, then there are the big jobs like sorting out the attic/ building the raised plots for the vege gardens....arggh help!!!!

DS is 21mths by the way

OP posts:
LadyCodofCOdford · 07/06/2006 08:51

nursery

one mornign a week

LadyCodofCOdford · 07/06/2006 08:53

also i shut up shop at 9pm
so often iron then

LadyCodofCOdford · 07/06/2006 08:53

and fold washing whilst dsses in bath

SSSandy · 07/06/2006 08:58

I think when they're so small you just have to accept that you won't be getting on top of any big jobs, unless the child is taken off your hands for a day, like if dh takes him to the zoo or something. The attic won't run away, it'll be there in 2 years time and you can tackle it then. Sounds like you're managing a heck of a lot as it is and really spending a lot of time doing things with ds.

Could you pay someone to come in and do a bigger clean once a month or so? That person could also tackle the oven and the things you just don't get round to.

Bozza · 07/06/2006 09:01

Right I work 3 days a week and have DS (5) and DD who is just 24 months. My system is pretty much washing once a day, ironing whiel watching Coronation Street - amy that's left is for DH (but that is still 2 hours ironing a week from me). DD insists on standing on a chair with me while I am cooking. I have a system of a cleaning day once a week which is Monday. I do the upstairs in the morning (try to get up early and make a start before school) and DH and I do downstairs together in the evening. I change the beds on a Friday.

It doesn't sound like your DH is doing much TBH. Couldn't he do DS's stories and teeth while you tidy up the kitchen or vice-versa. Also I think you and DS should tidy the lounge together before his bath.

Also does lunch really take an hour and you don't even manage to get the kitchen tidied up during that time?

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