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AmpleBosom · 21/08/2010 14:10

I have 3 boys aged 1, 3 and nearly 5. I work full time and so does DH. Eldest DS starts school in September.

I need some help in planning the day, we just never seem to get everyone up and out in the morning or fed bathed and in bed at night at a reasonable time. I'm hoping you can all give me some idea of what timetable you run to and get me sorted.

Here is the plan:

My DH will take DS1 to school for 8am breakfast club and then go to work

I take DS2 to nursery and DS3 to Grandma's

DH picks DS1 up from afterschool club at 5pm and I get DS2 & 3.

We bath the kids everynight but the evening just seems to run away with us and before I know it it's 9pm and they are only just getting into bed.

Also DH & I seem to be still up at stupid o'clock and then knackered the next day because we have hardly had any sleep and the whole cycle starts again.

So what time should we be getting up in the morning? Aiming to have our evening meal? etc

I know this should be easy but i'm just not getting it right! I'm still breastfeeding DS3 and he is sometimes not sleeping well due to teething.

Is it even possible to do this with 3 children under 5 and both of us working full time? Help me! Smile

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Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
clemetteattlee · 22/08/2010 21:58

We don't have a baby, but here are the timings for our last year (DD in reception, DS at nursery)

DS wakes early (some time after 6). DH gets up with him (I am still up with him in the night) and gives him breakfast/plays.
DD wakes at about 7 and has her breakfast while DH does the dishwasher.
He brings them to jump on me at 7.15 and I get them both washed and dressed (clothes out the night before, DD dresses herslef of course) whilst DH showers and dresses. I then get dressed/do my hair and make up.
We leave the house at 7.45. DH takes DS to nursery, I take DD to breakfast club.

In the evenings, depending on clinics/lectures, I collect DS and then drive to pick DD up from afterschool club (which, by the by she loves, and didn't find too tiring at all - probably because she was used to being at nursery full-time anyway) between 5 and 5.45.
If it is a later day then I will have done a slow-cooker meal for us all to eat together at 6. If it is earlier then I give the children something on toast (they both have a cooked meal in the middle of the day).
They go up for their bath at about 6.15 (no bath if we eat later), have stories until about 7.15 and are asleep by 7.30.
If we haven't eaten we do so at about 8.

I put a load of washing out, and another in the machine while they are having their bath and then sort their clothes and mine for the next day. Then I just wipe down the table and that is pretty much it for the housework (we are not in for long enough to make much mess). I iron on a Wednesday evening when DH goes to football and I can catch up on the stuff he won't watch on Sky+

Of course I don't have a baby to factor in to all of this, so go easy on yourself!!

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