Out of bed at 6am. Into the bathroom for hair & makeup extravaganza (travel coffee optional). Exit bathroom around 6.45. Scrounge for uniform for 5 minutes. Check self out in mirror- more scrounging. Check self out again, repeat as necessary. More coffee and a quick cigarette. Flap around the house doing god knows what for 15minutes........ Leave for work around 7.30, spend the 30min drive smoking as many cigarettes as I can before I hit the office. Arrive at work 8am. More coffee.
Post DS
Out of bed between 3.30 and 6am for the morning bottle. Back to bed for as long as he allows me. Alarm goes off at 6.15. Snooze. Alarm goes off at 6.30. Snooze. Alarm goes off at 6.45. Snooze. You get the idea. So I'm up somewhere between 6 and 7am. Rush to toilet myself and brush my teeth before getting DS out of his cot. Bum change, wardrobe change, playtime in the boudoir while mummy beautifies herself. (straighten hair if I'm lucky and slap my face on quickly) 7.15-7.30, my suit of armour is on and I'm ready for the office. Take DS downstairs for playtime and his brekky snack (usually a bloody biscuit because he's obsessed... lol) while I get the kindy bag ready. Possibly grab myself some lunch if I have time. (I usually don't!) 7.50 drag 2 heavy bags and a heavy toddler to the car. 8am arrive at kindy and do the dropoff. 8.15am I'm at my desk. Coffee! Look busy for half an hour. More coffee. around 9am I'm awake and ready to kick some butt, office style. LOL.
The main parts which are different are the chainsmoking and epic hairstyles. Now it's more of a ninja-style 'get ready really fast and silently' type of caper. I wouldn't want to move suddenly or fart or anything and set off the chain reaction of screaming and crying. From DS that is. I do miss that simpler time....................... and my complicated hairdo of years gone by though. And then the little cherub smiles and I remember why I made him.
Before DS I'd get up whenever, if I had to work I'd allow 45mins to shower, eat and get ready..
Now, If I need to leave the house by 9 I have to get up at 6.. Just expressing and tube feeding take an hour!
Routine if we go out is: express and BF, clean and test hearing aids and put them in, then nappy change, tube feed, solids. We shower together and then hopefully he plays or sleeps while I finish getting ready and doing a quick tidy up.
Staying home: Express and BF, clean and test hearing aids and put them in, nappy change, tube feed, solids, then I'll often go back to bed while DS sleeps or I'll clean up..
Prekids when I worked we left the house together and came home together.
Then prekids no work I'd get up with him, often make his breakfast. Then have the house clean by 8 am. NO MESS! What a luxury. But can't do this now as I'd wake the whole house. And he comes home earlier so he can spend more time with the kids before they go to bed.
Now I wake up and have a coffee whilst my babies potter around and do their morning routine. Have I mentioned I have the best babies in the world? Then I take them to school, grab a coffee from sevs and either work or come home and clean the house.
Before kids - up around 6:15, shower, breakfast, dress, hair, catch the bus at 7:15.
Now:
Up 6:45 to 7:00
Start making my breakfast, half unload dishwasher whilst getting lunches ready. Make breakfast for kids, argue with them about it, half eat mine
Get girls clothes ready, argue with them about it. Have my shower whilst yelling at the girls to get dressed.
Try to dry off whilst 2 small girls come in to brush teeth and hair. Deal with the "tie up me hair" "she pushed me dramas" whilst still half wet
Get dressed, remember that I still need to do my teeth and hair and possibly deodorant.
Put on makeup, whilst girls cry at me that they want to wear lipstick etc
Tell them to pack bags. Find my shoes, find the dog, lock up dog and try to ignore that has yet again forgotten to feed the chickens, end up feeding the chickens
Argue about shoes with the girls and what they can and cannot take to school/childcare. Feed cats
Load them all in to car
Lock the house
Strap in youngest, go back to house to get whatever has been forgotten.
Hopefully pull out of drive way by 8:20, hopefully walk into work at 9am for my first cuppa for the day and phone call to DH to remind him that he forgot the chickens again
Before DD I used to wake at around 5am, get dressed, do hair & make-up & leave the house by 5.30am. I'd get to work and have breakfast there then leave around 2.30/3pm
Now:
On the days that I work I get up at 6am, get dressed, hair & make-up, eat breakfast, wake DD at 6.30am, get her dressed then drop her off at creche to catch the train around about 7/7.15am. I leave the CDB by approx. 4.30/5 pm and get home around 6pm.
On the days that I don't work DD & I get up around 7/7.30, eat breakfast, get dressed, hair & make-up then take DD to her various activities (kinder or swimming etc...)
I do miss that simpler time....................... and my complicated hairdo of years gone by though. And then the little cherub smiles and I remember why I made him.
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