(OMG I'm being sucked in to this thread while a report I need to finish tonight is lying abandoned....)
Here's my Routine For The Crazy:
Rule1 - Always go to bed with house immaculate, or else be unable to sleep (Princess and Pea phenomena).
Rule2 - Have similarly anally-retentive husband.
DD is 2.
On waking: Fold back duvet to air, open bedroom window.
Go downstairs:
Make fresh juice, wash and clean juicer.
Eat breakfast, wash and clean bowl and tea cup.
(DH does most of morning stuff with dd and cleans up after her)
Upstairs, undress in bedroom, leave jimjams on pillow, make bed.
Shower, cleaning bathroom as I go.
Put used flannels on radiator to dry (when dry, goes in laundry basket).
Get dressed, go downstairs taking laundry for the day (although DH does most of the laundry tbh).
Put on laundry.
Clean up any remaining breakfast things if SH not already done this.
Wipe all surfaces in kitchen in case a splash might defile one of them.
Tidy sofa cushions.
Get dd ready for the day.
We usually go out in the morning so the house remains UNDEFILED.
When we get back, put coats on hooks, shoes in right place, pram under stairs and all things on pram e.g. shopping removed to their rightful place.
Make lunch with dd - usually soup and sandwiches.
DD naps and I do crossword, or nap. I plan dinner and take anything out of the freezer if needed.
Afternoons dd likes to play at home - we often do craft stuff. If we do, she will spent 20 minutes at the sink afterwards 'washing up' our paint brushes etc. Whilst she is thus entertained, I clear the craft stuff proper.
Around 5pm I hoover and put on dinner while dd plays or watches telly (although this has stopped since Cbeebies put on 'Something Special' and she developed a not-very-pc phobia about sign-language.) She also helps here e.g. mixing things - she has a few recipes she can almost do by herself now, if I prepare everything for her. She grinds spices, washes veg, that sort of thing. She lays table.
DH returns at 6 to dinner. DH usually takes the washing out of the machine in tip-lipped horror at the thought that I have left it in the washing machine all day.
DH washes up then bathes DD while I do more hoovering.
Thursday afternoons is my full-on housecleaning day. I try to do each room while dd naps. I wash all the floors and do all the dusting.
In the evenings we often both work (ahem, like me now) or watch telly together on Fridays and weekends.
This post is boring ME so I hope no one else has read it.