How long does it take you to get ready in the morning?

[soppy]

I feel like such a failure because, having got up at 7, DS (10 months) and I are rarely washed, dressed, made up (me not him ) etc until his lunchtime (11.30/12). Where does the time go??? I must admit I'm not that focused - if we have to get out in the morning we can, but if we're staying in I do check the PC briefly, etc. Still - half the day just getting ready for the day - doesn't make sense does it?!

I'm an totally lazy, I live a few doors up from the school, we get up at 7.50 and it takes 1 hour to get myself, ds (5) ready for school and we are always running late.

On a day off like today, I think we were both up at 9, but managed to get dresses 11.30 ish, and that was only as fil was coming round.

I think you beat me, breeze!

yes but if fil was not coming round, I probably will still be in dressing gown now

For me, without makeup or shower - 2 mins
With makeup and shower - 25 mins
With ds1 - 35 mins
Now with ds2 who is 10 days old the whole thing seems to take 2 hours!!

I am assured that it gets easier but getting dressed is an achievement ATM!!

2 hours, collision!!!!!! With 2 KIDS!! It is as I feared - I am crap. You put me to shame

I should add that my 4 hours include breakfast, + a half-hour nap for DS - I get him washed etc after breakfast, then dressed and hair brushed after his nap. Does that sound any better? Probably not ...

Depends whether I'm at work or not.

When I'm going to work, I can manage to drag myself out of bed at 6:30 and leave the house by 6:40.

But when DS and I are at home, we will often not be dressed until well after 11. And DS won't be dressed until after his lunch as it would only involve changing him again after lunch.

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OK, here's my morning, roughly:

7am Get up, change nappy etc
7.15 Breastfeed DS
7.45 Breakfast for both, tidy kitchen etc
8.45 Brush DS's teeth, wash face, change nappy
9.15 Hmm, not sure what happens here - a bit of laundry, a bit of pottering ...
9.45 Read with DS, get ready for nap
10 Bath/shower while DS naps
10.30 Get dressed, dress DS, brush his hair, etc.
11 Makeup while DS plays

God I am SLOW! I think my problem is I never do one thing at a time - always stopping halfway to do something else. And to have a sneaky glance at MN ....

On a work day I am up at 6:45
have shower, get dressed
get ds1 & ds2 dressed & breakfasted
put on a minimal amount of make up so as not to scare people on train
brush boys teeth, wash faces
put on shoes, coats, collect up numerous bags
out door 7:55

On a non work day I am up at 7:15
same routine except no make-up and I have breakfast with boys
out door 8:30 to take ds1 to school and ds2 to nursery.

(There is occasionally some screaming and shouting at some point in that routine !)

eek

soppy, I swear when I was on maternity leave with ds1 i was very rarely dressed before lunchtime.

We have 2 morning routines. One when I work in the morning and one when I don't.

Work one is -
5.00 - I get up, have a quick shower, throw some clothes on, do makeup and hair and have my breakfast
5.30 - I go into DD's room and get her up, but sometimes she is already awake, I bring a bottle up with me and give her that in her room. Then I bring her downstairs, and give her breakfast.
6.00 - bath DD and dress her
6.20 - hand her over to DH and leave for work!

Sometimes I can get her bathed, fed and dressed very quickly and when that happens I pop her in front of cbeebies and give the living room a quick tody.

When I don't have work. Like today
I usually wake up when DD does which usually 5.30-6.30. Give her breakfast, then DH takes her while I have my shower. Then I give her a bath and get her dressed. We are usally all done by 8(ish), this morning it was 8.45 which was fine. I am terminally lazy, so I always force myself just to get all the getting up stuff out the way or else we would be in PJs all day!

I get up at 7.15 with DD2, and DD1 gets up at 8.15. I am rarely ready before 10.30, and am always at least 20 minutes late for everything!!

get up at 6 am with all the kids and dh
get breakfast for dh, do his flask adn sandwhiches.
7am dh leaves for work.
get kids and my breakfast and stick a load of washing on.
Do dishes
make beds
clean bathroom
sweep and mop the kitchen floor
8am ds1 in uniform, wash and clean teeth.
I grab a shower.
8.20 get dd and ds2 dressed and washed and clean teeth.
8.35 leave for school
9.15 get home from school.
Housework and play with dd and ds2 til 2.45.
Get ready to get ds1 from school.
3.40 arrive home
get tea on, read ds1s school book with him, feed the kids, feed animals, kids bath and bed at 7pm. 8pm me and dh have tea, do dishes, clean kitchen, do washing, clean bathroom.
9-10pm bed.

My goodness Titania - you certainly have a handful there! You're putting me to total shame.

Beginning to wish I hadn't asked!

Don't worry Soppy, I didn't get dressed until midday today. We have to rush to get out on mornings when we got to the toddler group for 10.30, and I haven't yet signed her up for Jo Jingles as it starts at 9.30.

On work days, I can get out in about 30 minutes, but grandma bathes and dresses dd and gives her her breakfast - I just hand her over still in her sleeping bag!

Titania you seriously put me to shame. You are a super mum for doing all of that in the morning. How do you do it and what is your secret????
Must admit I am not usually out of bed until 7-7.30 so maybe that has something to do with it

that's good Titania but do dishes, breakfast, make beds, wash and mop floor and clean bathroom in an hour...how long for each job 5 mins? sorry it's just that breakfast takes us 20 mins, bathroom nearly an hour, floor 10 mins, beds 5 mins, dishes 10 mins (are you a superwoman?) not taking the mickey at all just seems a lot in 1 hour!

When I had ds1 (my first!) I was often still in dressing gown at 1pm. Those were there days... Dh is away this week so it's been up at 7.15, get three children dressed by 7.40, shower and getting dressed until 7.55 (ish!) dressed and giving breakfast at 8.10, leaving the house with all three at 8.45. Collapse in a heap shortly after---not good in the mornings!

Soppy - please just enjoy it while you can
I was exactly the same when I had ds and don't regret it for a minute. Infact some days I didn't get dressed at all.
It had flown by and here I am having to be up early and rushing to take my 2 to school!!!!

Ever since Dd was born I made sure after she had her milk (bresatfed as a baby but she still has a cup of milk in bed in the mornings)I do nothing else before I get dressed and ready myself.
I don't actually wake up as early as some of you (so feel a bit embarassed by this) is somewhere between 7-8AM, then DD gets into our bed , i bring her milk, she drinks that and plays in our bedroom whilst I get washed, dressed etc in about 10min, then I get her dressed and wash teeth it takes about 10min, then we make the beds together and tidy up another 5minutes.and all in all we're downstairs in 1/2 since waking up and the upstairs is tidy with the windows open too.
Once in the kitchen I prepare breakfast for another 5 minutes, we eat for about 15minutes, then I do some cleaning for 15 min (dishes, put washing on, mop the floor in the kitchen and tidying up) then we're both ready for the day ahead in about an hour from waking up.Easy peasy!
But I wouldn't be able to make it with more than 1 kid though.

and DH sorts himself out in the mornings so I don't have to worry about him.