How do I organise my mornings/

[BlossomHill]

Just had yet another disorgainsed morning and wondered where I go wrong. We usually have breakfast first and then get dressed right at the last minute. there is always a battle to brush teeth/hair, wash, get shoes on. the house always looks like a bomb has gone off even though I tidy it up in the evenings. Any help/advice to make my mornings more manic would be gratefully received.

You sound so much like me blossom, lol. You could get all the clothes ready the night before, if you have to do packed lunch you could do that the night before. Try to get in a routine of it?

deffinetly get clothes ready the night before and get dressed/washed before breakfast (including kids). wash your hair the night before (i always do that and it helps a great deal). i also tidy up in the evnings but somehow it all gets muddled up again so i tidy up as i move towards the kitchen (after getting dressed) and then all you have to do is prepare breakfast and tidy up in the kitchen afterwards. hope it helps.

BlossomHill ask Coddy to sourt you out a routine. She is routinemeister.

ditto CD - coddy aka MN Life guru

We always get dressed and do teeth before coming downstairs - seems to help. Also, after breakfast, I tend to clear up kitchen, put washing machine on, get ready for day etc while DSs are watching TV.
If we have to be out early, I get everything ready the night before and write a list!

god i am the same........i cant seem to get the normal day to day stuff done let alone anything extra like baking. (on here now as i am on a 10 minute break from being a headless chicken!!! i am frazzled now!!) i am up from 5 most mornings and there still arent enough hours in the day.......CODDY!!!! PLEASE HELP US!!!!!

The only thing that works for me (and I can't manage it everyday!) is for me to get up 20 minutes before everyone else. I have a shower, get dressed etc. then I'm ready to sort everyone else out.

I lay out ds1's school uniform the night before and he gets dressed by himself, I get ds2 up, change his nappy, get him dressed. THEN breakfast (I unload dishwasher and tidy up the night before so I can just load up the breakfast dishes). Then ds1 does "teeth and toilet" while I load ds2 into pushchair and we are out of the door by 8.30...that's the theory anyway!

Sounds great in principle, reality is I often don't have time for my own breakfast!

ooh ooh back later

Thanks for all of your helpful comments. I am just disorganised in general and am certainly not a morning person, which doesn't help!