What's your daily routine?

[kitkat90]

Random question because I'm nosey and thought it would be interesting. What is your daily family routine? When do you wake up, what does everyone do in the day? What time do kids go bed? Etc.

One 17 month old boy. Work part time. On my work days up at 6/6:30, get ds ready between us. Leave house at 7:45. Dh takes our son to childminder and I pick up about 5:30 make him a quick tea, bath and bed for about 7:30.
On days off I tend to go to a play group/library in the morning, he has a midday sleep whilst I catch up with housework and afternoons vary - maybe errands, the park, or a friend might pop round.
Things quite nice at the moment now we are out of baby phase. Trying for another so it won't always be as relaxed as this so enjoying while I can.

12 month old DS, I work 3 days a week.

Get up 7am everyday. DS wakes up earlier but he's happy enough in his cot until 7.

On work days-
Breakfast etc...by 7:30
I dress and change him and then give him milk while DH gets dressed/breakfast then we swap and I get dressed etc...
Drop him at nursery by 9ish
Pick him up at 5:30
Home for snack & playing until bedtime routine.

Non work days-
He's transitioning to one nap so I have to take him out all morning to keep him awake so we leave the house 9ish and head to a play cafe and play til midday lunch then nap in the pushchair on the way home.
Go to shops / local swings in the afternoon or sometimes it's just playing at home or a bit of CBeebies!

Evening routine is:
Milk at 6:30ish
Bath 7:30
DH does his bedtime and he's asleep by 8
I make our dinner while bedtime routine is going on
I try to get to bed by 10:30, asleep for 11.

We're also trying for another so I'm enjoying this phase too as its running pretty smoothly at the moment and I'm really enjoying watching DS transition into a little toddler, walking, talking etc. it's my favourite stage so far. Wasn't mad keen on having a tiny baby tbh.

I have four dc 9,4,18 months and 5 months.

Everyone up at 7
Dp does breakfast while I feed the baby
Three eldest do teeth
Dd9 gets herself ready and makes bed
Dd4 gets herself ready
I get toddler ready
I dress baby
Get myself ready (I shower before bed as no time)
Dp takes the eldest three down
I make beds and tidy upstairs
Downstairs I grab a coffee and do girls hair
Load the dishwasher and wipe round
Coats and bags and leave at 8.20
Drop dd4 at nursery
Drop dd9 at school
Either drop toddler at childminders or we go out for the morning play group or what ever
Home for 11.30 lunch and naptime for two youngest til 2
Dd2 comes home from nursery at 1 dp drops her off at home
During nap time i prepare tea for kids and and dinner for us later and do anything that needs doing
Leave for school at 3
Homework, tea and playing.
Dp home at 6
Baths at 6.15
Bed for the two youngest at 7
Dd4 bed at 7.30
Dd9 bed at 8
We eat when everyone is in bed then I do pack lunches, put a wash on, tidy up get everyone's stuff ready for the next day.

It's busy and we have to have a pretty strict routine during the week otherwise everything goes wrong still does sometimes!

Weekends we chill out together and do what we feel like but the kids do activities so real down time is limited.

DD is 2.6; DH and I both work full time; I'm pregnant with DC2.

Up at 6am, shower, dress and breakfast, everyone leaves at 7.20. DH drives to the station, works 9-6. I drop DD at nursery then drive to work, work 8.30-4.30. DD has a hot lunch and a snack tea at nursery, nap at 1 for an hour. Collect DD at 5.15, home for bath, a wee supper and 15 mins TV while I tidy, fold washing, prep dinner, pack nursery bag and put out clothes for the next day. Upstairs by 7 for stories and bed. DH home about half 7, dinner and TV. I'm in bed by 9pm these days.

DD goes to PILs on a Friday but routine is the same. One morning a week DH drops DD to nursery and one evening leaves early to collect her, so I can do meetings etc at work.

DH and I share cooking, and we have a cleaner once a week.

DD does rugby on Saturday morning and swimming on Sunday afternoon. Everyone has a nap on the weekends We always eat breakfast together, lunch together on weekends and Sunday night dinner.

Me, 3yo DD and DP, and it's all over the shop as DP does shift work.

Average day

7am I get up, shower, make up, dry hair etc
7.30 DD gets up, get us both dressed
8 take DD to CMs
8.30 catch train to work
9.30-5.30 I'm at work

DP normally collects DD at 4, either because he's just got back from work or because he's just woken up from sleeping off a night shift

Lord knows what they then do before I get home at 6.45

7-7.45 I do bath time and bed time

8ish DP and I eat.

But then there are some days during the week where I'm at work and DP has DD at home with him.

Weekends he's normally at work so its me and DD at home, so we'll either see friends or my parents, and Sundays we have football class in the morning.

Or maybe he's at home sleeping off a night shift and we have to find ways to amuse ourselves out the house for quite a long time...

Poor DD must think every day is a constant surprise, there's no routine for her!

3yo DD. I work Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and DH works from home on Mondays. She goes to preschool on Wednesday and Fridays.

Up at 7 with DH for breakfast whilst I shower and get ready every day, then I come down for 8 as he's leaving. I'm grateful for this time.

If we are alone we will do errands/potter til 11 when she will nap for an hour, but she's outgrowing this now, and then lunch at 12:30. Cue more pottering/playing/going to the park or whatever.

DH home at 5:30, half an hour of daddy cuddles before tea at 6, bath at 7 and bed 7:30-8. Whoever has been away from her all day does bedtime

Baby number two is on the way and I'm looking to get her into preschool more days before then so she's used to it and doesn't associate new baby with being sent of to nursery. I'm definitely hoping not to break her routine when DD2 arrives but we shall see how that turns out for me!

Oh crap I DON'T work those days. I made it look like my poor DD is abandoned 3 days of the week DH does work Saturdays so it's just us then.

Dh leaves house for work at 6.45am. Works full time. Gets home at 5pm, picks DS up from nursery on way home.

I get up at 6.30am, get DS up and change/ feed etc. Leave house at 7.30am, drop DS off at nursery. I catch train and start work at 9am, finish at 5pm ( full-time)

I get home at 6pm (hour commute each way for me, 30 mins for DH) we play with DS, put him to bed at 7pm. We have dinner. Chill for a bit, we're usually in bed for 9.30pm.

It's hard, DS is only 15 months, luckily he likes nursery, but it I would really like to work part time , maybe four days as five is a lot. Weekends are lazy to say the least!

Wake up at 5am (dh stays home) take the dogs out for an hour.
6am home and shower and get dressed
7am dd gets up and dressed
7:15 dd has breakfast and I make her lunch
8:00 dd gets dropped off at nursery
8:30-4:30 work from home
5- pick dd up from nursery
5:30 make tea
6- dh home so dogs go out for an hour and a half so dh does bath time and will put her to bed.
Apart from Fridays when with my mum & step dad have her for the night or mil/fil who will have he for the night

Dd is 4 years old should of added

6 m/o dd.

6 or 7am wake up. DD poos! DH changes her then I give her a good morning feed/cuddle.
8 - 9am. dressed etc.
9-10 am. Coffee for me, fruit or baby cereal for her (plus the cleaning up).
10-10.30 play mat time and/or book and/or Peppa pig.
10.30-11am. Milk feed and nap time unless it's morning playgroup day.
Then we try to go out ... milk on demand etc (if it's morning playgroup, nap time wpuld be now iyswim).
1pm lunch and clearing of avocado and carrot from everything in sight.
2pm milk and nap 2.
3 pm try to do a few chores.
4.30pm another nap! She's not down to 2 yet.
5-6pm DH back from work, holds dd while I cook or he cooks.
6-7pm dinner and my chance to shower.
7pm baby feed and bed time. Recently takes till 8pm to be fully settled!
Up till she was 6 months I stayed in tge room with her. Now I pop in and out. Need a baby monitor!!

Over night ... 2-4 feeds! Yawn!

DH and I usually blitz chores at the weekend. DD sleeps ok at night but so lightly by day I have to iptoe with her in a sling or watch tv/read with her on my shoulder. Mustn't grumble as she's easy in most other regards.

I'm on maternity leave at moment. Have 2 daughters, one is 2.5 and one is 7 weeks.

Usually we all get up around 7am. Dd1 eats breakfast and I feed dd2.

Dd2 then tends to nap from about 8.30 -10 and I throw a washing on and do some chores while dd1 either helps or watches TV. If we're going out I get everyone ready in this time and get the bag packed.

10am dd2 takes another feed and then we either go out to groups or shops or park etc.

If we're home we have lunch around 12 and dd1 naps from 1.30-3.30 and dd2 takes another feed and naps again.

Dd1 and I have some time when she wakes up playing or colouring then I put dinner on and feed dd2 again about 5ish.

Hubby us home at 6 and we eat dinner then dd1 goes to bed around 8pm and dd2 then screams with colic until around 11pm. I usually go to bed at 9.30 and hubby stays up til 11 with dd2 for her last feed. I get up between 3-5 for dd2 night feed.

2 dcs aged 8 and 11.
Alarm at 6 during the week, we alternate going downstairs to make coffee then slowly come round in front of the news (sometimes have sex). Get out of bed at 6:30 and go for a run twice a week or go straight into the shower. Dcs wake up around 7.Usually downstairs and showered by 7:15, make lunches. Shout at dcs to get dressed then either leave for work /breakfast club at 7:45 (2 days)or supervise breakfast and tooth brushing, leave for school at 8:15( 1 day me, 2 days dh) The dcs have afterschool activities 4 nights a week. We all generally get back between 5:30 and 7:30. We try to eat together at 7:30-8, if it gets late we eat separately, we take turns to cook. After dinner whoever didn't cook cleans up with ds (11) while the other takes Dd (8) up for a bath. Aim to have Dd in bed for 8:30. Ds has a shower afterwards he is in bed for 9, asleep for 9:30. Dh and I try to watch something together/ have sex / fall asleep between 9:30 and 10.

This is really interesting!
Our routine is pretty relaxed as I am a SAHM and DH is a full time student.
DS(2) gets up anywhere between 4.30 and 8 depending on what kind of night has (terrible sleeper) if I have been up early I go back to bed for an hour when DH gets up at 8. Unless we are going to toddler group we just hang out in the house in the morning. DS potters about/watches cbeebies/plays with DH and I usually tidy/put laundry on/load dishwasher. DS then naps for about an hour at some point around lunchtime. DH will be at uni for either morning or afternoon or at work two days a week.
2 pm ish me and DS go out to shops/park/play cafe, home about 5 for dinner for DS bath etc in bed for 7.30-8. Then me and DH eat dinner,watch TV, do hobbies in the evening. Usually in bed for 10.30.

What's a routine ??!!

We have a sort of Rhythm we follow.

I'm at SAHM with a home schooled nearly 6 year old and a 4 1/2 yr old.

6-9 Up, breakfast, washing and dressing, quiet play, housework
9-12 Activities: home school groups, kindy, swimming, park, beach, whatever out of the house
12-4 Lunch, quick clean up, quiet time, stories, "school work" arts and crafts, gardening, Lego, anything at home
4-7 Quiet play, dinner prep, dinner, in summer we usually head out after dinner for a swim at the beach or a bike ride or something, Bath/showers
Bed at 7.30-8

3 year old twins, I stay at home, DH works VERY long hours.

6am Out of bed, usually awake earlier by small children banging on my head saying "mummy up now!"
6.30am DH leaves
7-8am breakfast, general tidying, dishwasher etc, laundry on MNing with Cbeebies on in background
9-11.30 Out for morning errands, grocery shop, walk, park etc
12 Lunch, more tidying up
1-2pm Attempt at quiet time, usually involves the three of us cuddling in bed watching surprise egg vids on youtube
2-4.30pm Pottering at home, housework, walk to local park. Generally boring time. I need to work out a regular activity for the afternoon to stop us nibbling and lazing about
5pm Mummy hits the eleven-hour-wall and loses all patience completely
5.30-6pm Dinner, clean up
6.30pm Bath etc
7pm Bedtime
7.30-9.30pm I flop on sofa, MN, Pinterest, read, watch shit tv, nibble, do yoga/meditation, long shower, stare into space
10pm DH home, sometimes later, sometimes not until next day

Repeat forever and ever. I am tired!

Twin dd's, 30 months.

Dh leaves at 7:30.
I wake up between 7:30-8, wake the DC up, get them a cup of milk. We drink milk and read stories in my bed.
Dress the DC and we go down for breakfast at 8:30. After breakfast I leave them in font of the TV while I go and get dressed. I then pack what we need for the day, nappies etc.
We go to either playgroup, ballet, park, shopping, library etc usually around d 9:15-9:30.
Get back home around 12, have lunch together then watch a bit of TV.
The DC nap from 1pm-3pm. I usually prepare dinner, clean the house, do washing or drink tea and watch TV.
Wake the DC up at 3pm, give them a snack. We do crafty stutf , go for a walk or play in the garden.
Dh gets home around 4:30, then I cook dinner while he amuses the DC.
We all eat together at 5:30.
Kids have milk and watch The Gruffalo (for the millionth time!)
6:30 is bath time, then brush teeth, stories and bed for DC at 7pm.
Dp and I wash up, tidy the living room then sit and and watch TV.
I go swimming at our local leisure centre three nights a week which I do once DC are in bed.

i'm a stay at home mum so no routine as such 3 children

6.30-7 am everyone up
if school day dd1 and dd2 dressed and out the door by 8.10am
dd2 pre school drop first by 8.30 breakf club
dh stays home with ds 17 m while i do school run
back home by 9.10am
9.30 to 11.15 alone/bonding/play time with ds
11.20 out the door to collect dd2 pre school
11.40 home with dd2 to then listen to her morning etc cuddles
12.15 start to pre pare lunch for everyone
1-2 cartoons for 3 year old dd and ds while i do housework
2.45 if school day go walk to collect dd1
get home get the washing /uniform done
4pm cook
5-6 bath children ready for bed some tv time
7-8pm dd1 and dd2 and ds asleep

repeat repeat repeat daily