Your morning routine?

So what do you do in the morning?

Was it different pre children?

My routine has generally been to tumble out of bed after a snooze or two, throw on clothes, tie up my hair, throw something for breakfast into my bag and catch the train (whether to school, uni or work). I catch the train with friends, or read, or look at the paper (or BB:))on my phone.

My routine now is getting up earlier to feed babies and express, but otherwise it's about the same! But I often sleep on the train ... I still get in around 7.45ish.

But some people at work (and one of my brothers) always has brekky together as a family, reads the paper IRL (:o) and *then* go to work.

I've got no idea how on earth they manage to get all their work done when they're only getting into the office at 9am but power to them!

You?

My morning routine starts with DH waking me up and kissing my goodbye for the day.

I get up and get the kids breakfast, make their lunches then pester them to do all the things they need to do before leaving for school

The older 2 go to the bus stop at 8 and I take dd2 to school at 8,30, then I am alone to do as I please until I go to work.

pre-DD it was get up, drive into work with DH (shift depending) and breakfast was in there somewhere.

After DD's arrival, my mornings were spent with a quick breakfast, getting her up and dressed and to creche and then heading to work on my own. If I was on an early shift, I'd get up, shower, throw my hair up, and make breakfast to eat in the car.

These days, I get up, in the shower, dry hair with dryer, straighten hair, do make up, make coffee and toast for car whilst simultaneously writing reminder notes for DH and DD, take out something for dinner, and then leave.

I always make lunches and pack bag's the night before. That has never changed.

I admire anyone who can eat breakfast as a family! It's hard enough for us to even eat dinner as a family with me having done shift work and DH not getting home until after 7 most nights (to accomodate for him dropping DD to school and then having to contend with traffic).

When do you have to go to work Tinks? Just wondering how much time you have on your hands.

Mine has changed massively. Before kids I'd get out of bed and take about an hour just to get myself ready. That included breakfast, sitting down and eating.

Now, when I was working and getting kids to child care, it was an hour to get myself ready, two kids ready and dropped at child care and back to the station.

What did I do with that whole hour before?? :rolleyes:

Now that I'm not working, I roll out of bed (at 30wks, I literally roll :D ) when the kids drag me out, get brekkie then get myself ready and them ready.

That'll change if I have to be out of the house before 9am - I get myself up before the kids so that I am ready to go and can just concentrate on them.

DH can be up and gone in ten minutes - shower, clothes, teeth, out the door. Don't know how he does it :p

I leave home around 10.30 OP

When Hubby goes to work at 5.30
Wake with DS about 6.30-7 feed him sitting up in bed
have a play with him then nappy change. Pop him inplay pen and feed dogs.
Turn him into "michelin baby" with an extraordinary amount of clothes.
Pop him in pram by about 7.30 and go and feed up horses and muck out boxes/change rugs etc
by 8.30 back in house for brekky for us both and then onto the rest of the day.

When hubby leaves for work at 7.45
Wake up to family cuddle
sit up in bed and feed DS (while hubby feeds dogs and gets fire going)
Hand him over to hubby and head out to feed up and let horses out while hubby wrangles DS as he has his brekky and dresses for work.
Return from stables/paddock about 7.30, quick cuppa and wave goodbye to hubby.
Feed DS brekky and have mine about 8.30 then turn him into slightly less of a michelin baby and go down and muck stables

My routine now is very different compared to pre-DD!

Before, I would wake at 6, get DH and I breakfast and take it back to bed. We'd lay around for a bit, and get out of bed around 6:20. I'd pack his bag, he'd get dressed, and he'd be out the door at 6:30. Then I'd clean up the house from the night before, make my lunch, check out the internet before leaving for work at 8:10 - I worked five minutes from home.

Now, DH tends to sleep in the spare room so that he actually gets sleep, so he gets himself up after a few snoozes, and gets his own breakfast. If I haven't shown up by 6:30 he'll come in to wake me. Ideally I'd be up at 6 and DD would sleep til 6:45, but I'm usually so exhausted and she winds up in bed with me at some point in the night, so when the alarm goes off she rolls over, latches on and I can't leave lol.

So anyway, when I do get up I straighten my hair and do my makeup, and if DD is up that's not entirely easy. Then we share a bowl of weetbix. I get her changed, get dressed myself, and pack both our bags, which involves getting nappies and milk for her and lunch and walking gear for me. A quick feed for DD then off at 7:45, to get DD to daycare by 8 and me at work at 8:20 as we've moved and it's a bit of a drive.

So yeah, it's quite different now!

Pre-DD, I'd roll out of bed whenever I woke up (if no work or school or whatever, it'd usually be around 11.30 or 12!) eat some food (or not), shower, spend like an hour doing my makeup.

Now, I wake up when DH gets up at about 6.30 and cuddle in bed with DD. DH leaves for work, I snuggle DD or play on my phone until she wakes up, usually between 8.30-9 on a good day. Put the radio on on my phone, change DD's nappy, get up and make DD brekky (normally cereal and toast to some degree). Feed DD brekky while I eat some toast. Clean DD up, set her up with some toys while I unload the dishwasher, make DD's bottles for the day and pop them in the fridge and clean up any brekky mess. Chuck DD in the highchair while I have a shower (or shower her with me). Then into DD's room to play for a bit, then it's bottle and nap at 11-11.30 :) That's my morning.

On Maternity Leave at the moment but as I work afternoon shifts when Im working its not much different. DH leaves for work at 5 am most mornings.

If DD3 wakes before 6.45 I feed here and then have a shower, if she is still asleep at 6.45 my alarm goes off and I have a quick shower, then feed DD3 when she wakes

Then DD1 and DD2 get up and I supervise them getting breakfast (they are learning to use the microwave to warm their milk for cereal). While they eat I empty the dishwasher. Then I get their clothes ready and they dress themselves with minor assistance, dd2 always checks which feet her shoes go on. Kids do their teeth one at a time while the other has their hair done then we make beds together and DD1 packs her school bag and if its Wednesday (childcare) or Friday (playgroup) DD2 packs her bag too. I always wipe over the bathroom sink and get the toilet isnt a festering mess before we leave

I try and put a load of washing on and get meat out the freezer for dinner, slow cooker on if Im using it that day.

Once the kids are ready they can play, draw or warch TV before its time to go to school.

I always have breakfast but when it fits in depends on DD3 and her wake up. If she is up before 6.30 she often wants another feed before we go to school which is why there is always play time for the big girls. We leave at 8.30 for school. I would like to work morning shifts but I would need to leave the house too early :(

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DH can be up and gone in ten minutes - shower, clothes, teeth, out the door. Don't know how he does it :p

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My personal best is bed to train station is 7 minutes :D

I used to live less than 100 metres from the station ... I miss that convenience!

Before DS it was snooze the alarm a zillion times, starting at 6:00am. Get up make coffee/breakfast, put morning news on to listen to as I got dressed. Then do hair makeup etc, out the door ideally by 7, but more often 7:20....

Now it is, DS wakes up when DH gets up between 5:30-6, sometimes earlier and comes into our bed and goes back to sleep til 8 normally, sometimes 9. DH will kiss us goodbye when he leaves at 6:30. When we get up I get DS breakie then myself breakfast once he's sorted, then get him changed/dressed then myself (if its not pajama Monday). After that potter around playing and getting stuff done like washing.

Oh and bb and fb in there somewhere whenever I get the chance!

sent from my watzamajig so may not make sense....

At the moment it's alarm goes off 7.45. Again at 8 then Roll out of bed, wake DD up, get her brekky and do her insulin pump. Get her lunch, school clothes and myself dressed while she eats. Out the door to school by about 8.45. Generally drop her at the gate.
Come home, back to bed for me, or what ever I need to do for the day.

Pre maternity leave
Alarm at 7. Shower, hair, dressed. Get DD up and ready. Out the door 7.30 so she could be dropped at before school care (they gave her brekky). Work by 8.30

Pre kids
Depends on hours of work, but I'd get up and out the door usually in 30 mins to catch train etc

Pre DS

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. :rofl: 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

I can't remember what life was like pre kids :P

But these days, I wake up have a shower, get dressed, make up on, go get girls bags ready put them in the car, pick up the girls and put them sleeping in the car and put them in blankets, if they are going to kindy tho I need to dress them first, brush their teeth/hair (FDC does everythign for them). and go to work...

If I am not working its much the same, shower, dress, have coffee (I have time when i am not working), get the girls ready, and out the door by 830 for school drop off.

Weekends are PJ days unless we're going out :P

Up when the kids get up, can't get up earlier I am not an early morning person! Cuddle the kids in bed them send them downstairs to play while I shower then get the kids dressed m. While they eat breaky I empty and reload the dishwasher and put on the first load of washing then it's the kinder drop off and swimming for the kids a couple of days a week.

Nobody in our house does pre 7am. Not allowed lol. If 1 should find 1self awake then a quite trip to the tv is allowed to wait for the rest of us. 7.03 normally 3 kids in bed, bottles and water. Up change nap and get breakfast and coffee going. I get the boys their clothes ready the night before. After breakfast and wash, kids dress. Dd and i will drop ds1 at school. Hubby takes ds2 to kindy. Then back for housework, nap, lunch. Somewhere i fit in make up hair and clothes for myself. All our kids eat in pjs lol.

Before kids i worked night so up 2-4pm breakfasts. Housework. Shopping. Cook dinner for us then go to work.
Did that alittle after my first baby but it was too tiring and was awful for bfing

Sorry if it doesn't make sense, the barefoot princess is covering me with kisses

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...)

Pre-DD:

Up at 7:30, shower, hair & makeup, breakfast if I'm on time, leave for work by 8:15ish. Breakfast at work if running late.

Now:

Feed DD 5:30-6:30, DH changes her and brings her into our bed for a play and cuddles. DH puts her back down, heads to work and I grab extra z's for as long as DD allows. Usually up again 7:30-8:30, feed & play, back down for a longer nap while I eat, get dressed and do as much housework as I can bear.

6.15- get woken up by child getting out of bed and pulling half my covers off.
6.30 - get re-woken by child climbing back into bed.
6.35 - woken again by second child getting into bed
6.45 - demand children vacate bed
7.00 - put alarm on snooze
7.05 - hit snooze again
7.07 - small boy reappears in bed and pretends to be a 'popsumm'.
7.10 - hit snooze again.
7.11 - demand popsumm gets out of my bed
7.15 - hit snooze
7.17 - admit defeat and cede bed to the popsumm
7.18 - stub toe whilst looking for slippers
7.19 - stagger to kitchen and put kettle on
7.20 - return to bedroom to turn alarm off
7.21 - ask children what they want for breakfast. Get 2 weet-bix with honey for DS1. Refuse to make eggs benedict/sujuk and eggs/blueberry pancakes for DS2. Tell him he can have weet-bix or porridge.
7.22 - microwave a bowl of porridge for DS2.
7.23 - Start school lunches. Ask boys what they want on their sandwiches. Make avocado or hommus sandwich for DS2.
7.25 - kettle boils. make coffee.
7.26 - spill coffee. Swear profusely.
7.28 - finish school lunches
7.29 - burn mouth on coffee. Swear profusely
7.30 - Find school uniforms and ask children to get dressed in them
7.33 - Try to print out school project.
7.32 - fix paper jam
7.34 - press off button on printer instead of ok button. swear.
7.35 - repeat request to get dressed to small zombies. Threaten to throw TV away fif they don't turn it off and get ready for school.
7.36 - realise coffee has gone cold. Drink it anyway.
7.38 - cat demands breakfast
7.38 - ignore cat. Look for clothes for self.
7.44 - Remember printing. Turn printer off at wall and back on again. Get printing undewrway.
7.46 - Check that both boys have underwear on. Ask DS2 to take his pants off and put undies on underneath them.
7.48 - find small socks
7.50 - Finish finding clothes
7.53 - Go to shower. Ask boys to have school bags ready and shoes and socks on by the time I get out.
8.05 - step out of shower
8.06 - realise I still have conditioner in hair.
8.07 - get back in shower.
8.08 - dry, moisturise, dress.
8.15 - tell children to put shoes on or go to school without them
8.16 - check school bags for contraband
8.17 - explain to DS2 that light sabres are not allowed at school.
8.18 - Ask boys to put their jumpers on
8.19 - tell DH that he needs to wake up because we go in 10 minutes (if he's home)
8.20 - repeat jumper request.
8.21 - cat decides that if I won't feed her she will kill me and attempts to trip me up
8.22 - swear at cat.
8.23 - feed cat.
8.24 - cat changes her mind. She's not hungry. She would rather go outside. Tell cat she'll just have to wait.
8.25 - remind boys that if they don't pack their lunchboxes they will go hungry.
8.26 - tell the boys to put their jumpers on before I go ballistic
8.27 - yell at DH
8.28 - yell at the boys
8.29 - tell the boys to hustle to the car
8.30 - make sure seat-belts are done up and argue with DH about who will drive.
8.31 - race back inside to grab school project from printer
8.32 - lock door
8.33 - go back inside for jumper
8.40 - stop at coffee shop for flat white to take away.
8.45 - get back in car. ask boys to stop yelling at each other
8.48 - get boys out of car. Try to get backpacks on them before they do the bolt
8.49 - carry DS2's backpack over for him
8.50 - drink my coffee and play on my phone.
9.00 exhale.

Onyx - a small part of me cried for you when I saw that it takes your jug 6 minutes to boil. That sort of delay on coffee is a tragedy.

I am however rather impressed that your printer manages to jam paper before you tell it to print. Though now I'm a little worried mine will get ideas ...

For us it depends - DP noormally leaves by 6:30ish so the girls and i lay in bed until around 7 then we get breakfast and i get them dressed, hair brushed, teeth etc.
IF i haven't had ashower the night before i shower and get dressed and then we start the day - be it making lunches for kinder, getting ready for swimming or getting ready for gymnastics.

We also tend to go to the chickens in the morning and let them out if that needs to be done and the dog & cat get fed before we go anywhere.
Kinder & swimming mornings this all has to be done by 8:30 - 9ish and gymnastics mornings we don't leave the house til a little after 10:30.

Before kids I sometimes wouldn't get up till 12. I used to work as tech support from home and just had to clock a certain amount of hours so usually did most overnight, was the best.

Now we all get up around 6am and go for a 40min walk then breakfast together before DP heads to work around 7:30ish.

What nice time to walk and have time with your partner :)

Sorry if it doesn't make sense, the barefoot princess is covering me with kisses

Before DD:

Up at 6:45 (or 7 if the snooze button got hit) -
Shower
dry and straighten hair
make up
prepare lunches
(encourage DH to get up)
eat breakfast
out the door at 7:40ish to be at work by 8ish

Now:
Up at 6:00 -
Shower,
(make sure DH is out of bed - he now does the lunches/prepares DD's bottles for childcare),
dry and straighten hair,
make up,
feed DD breakfast (DH then dresses her or visa versa),
eat breakfast,
out the door at 7:20ish to drop DD off at childcare and be at work by 8ish

Onxy you are a classic! :lol:

My routine this morning:

4.30am - Woken by baby Monitor - Mummmeeee! Milk! Stagger into Kitchen, heat up bottle and give to DS, locate Dummy and Giraffie and tuck in blankies. Stagger back to bed
5.30am - DS now awake and requesting "Music-on, Music-on!" I give in and put wiggles on, change nappy and head into the kitchen
6.00am - After re-falling asleep on the couch I am woken by a torch beaming into my eye....DS is into the junk draw again. Alarm goes off in the bedroom. DH snoring loudly.
6.05am - Make toast for DS, strap into Highchair, put cartoons on and go and get showered, changed, makeup etc in the time it takes him to eat 2 peices of toast.
6.20am - DS has now tipped water all over himself, finished toast and demanding to be let out, DH still snoring.
6.25am - Wrangle DS into bedroom, crying because he wants to take, Giraffie, Thomas, 2 matchie cars and my bedside table clock in to get changed with him
6.35am - Brush DS's teeth and do hair - DH still snoring
6.40am - Gag on my toast and try to swallow my preggie vitamins while DS clinging to me leg wanting up
6.45am - Dog is now barking, wanting to be let out and fed
6.50am - Dog is fed, I brush teeth, DH still snoring until DS pegges Thomas at him. DH opens one eye, retrives Thomas, offers Thomas in exchange for a kiss from DS, DS accepts the offer and the transaciton is made
7.00am - Chase DS down the driveway having just escaped when I opened the garage door, wrangel him into the car - drive to Childcare.
7.20am - Get to Childcare, have to pry DS off my body, say goodbye and make a break for it, while he is being cuddled by his favorite carer and there is a small break from the tears
7.25am - Drive like a woman possessed to the Train Station, find a park
7.36am - Jump on Train, find a seat, headphones in.....and relax! BLISS!

Up when baby wakes - anytime between 7-8:30am (she goes to bed at 9:30pm).
Then I throw on clothes, put her on the potty, let her play on the floor whilst I brush my teeth, wash my face with only water, slap on some moisturiser and deodorant.
After that I make her brekky, my brekky and hubby's brekkie. We wave goodbye to daddy (10am) and then we play until her first nap (right now she is all over the shop so anytime between 10:30-1pm).
Then I go and fix my hair, put on some perfume and maybe some mascara if I'll be going out to run errands with her later that day. Most of the time I just collapse into a vegetative state on the sofa and think of all the housework I should be doing while she sleeps that I won't end up doing...

Showers only happen at night when hubby is home.

Back in the day I would wake up, do some light stretching/meditation, spend some time pampering myself in the bathroom (dry body brushing, facial etc), come out and make myself a grand brekkie to share with the hubs, then have a cup of tea whilst I browsed some blogs before starting work (I worked at home). Now my day starts with a foot to the face and the sound of baby farts - bliss :p

Pre-baby it was sleep, roll out of bed when I needed to depending on work/uni schedule, have a coffee, maybe some study, maybe some housework, maybe some nothing... It was all very relaxed...

Before I finished work a week ago my regular morning routine was: (if DP had an early shift) 6am: Alarm goes off, swear at the phone, roll out of bed and get dressed, turn kettle on, wake up DD, dress DD or send her to get dressed, do our hair etc, make DD's breakfast, make coffee, make my lunch and fill drink bottles while coffee is cooling, sit and drink coffee and then eat my breakfast with DD who is usually still dawdling around eating, hurry DD who is still eating, check her daycare bag, check I've got my work stuff, brush our teeth, shoes on, allow at least 5 minutes for DD to complain about something/try to bargin to take something the daycare/take her sweet time getting into the car, and out of the garage by 7.15am to do daycare dropoff and get to work by 7.45am.

If DP didn't do an early shift it was much nicer, I could sit with DD have breakfast while DP made my lunch and I didn't have to hurry DD to eat or deal with the whingefest/daycare bargin/car procrastination routine.

I cannot get up less than half an hour before I need to leave. I swear it's just not safe for me to be driving so close to waking up ROFL!

The mornings I can deal with though, it's the afternoons that really suck (my partner does split shifts usually). I don't know how I managed to WASTE so much time before kids... I leave work at 3.45pm and I can manage to drive to daycare, do daycare pickup with chatty carers, drive home, afternoon tea, play with DD, some housework, check emails and make reply to any from uni, feed the dog, water the vegies, shower/bath myself and DD, have dinner on the table and have all dishes washed by the time DP gets home at 6.15pm. And afternoons are shocking. DD and I are both tired, cranky, whingey and annoyed. My feet hurt. My back hurts. My head hurts. Pre-kids I used to just get home and vege on the couch thinking "I can't beleive how tired I am", until I could be bothered getting back up again. HA!

Maternity leave is SWEEEEET lol, DD is enjoying the relaxed mornings too :)

The alarm is set for 5.30 but DS2 usually jumps on the bed and announces that he wants "wee-bix" at 5.

DH gets the weetbix for DS2 while I jump in the shower and wash my hair
DH also starts to prep breakfast for us
As I'm getting out of the shower DS2 is getting in (this keeps him occupied so DH can shave and I can get dressed)
DH has a shower
I dress DS2 and then continue with the breakfast preparation (while yelling at DSS and DS1 to get out of either the shower or bed - where ever they are at in their routine) and grab our lunches (which are made up the night before)
DH joins me and the three of us have breakfast together (DS2 eating off our plates ... it's actually his second breakfast)
DH tidies up the breakfast things while I dry my hair and put on makeup
I warm up the car and put DS2 in the car while DH puts on his suit
He brings out the bags
We are out of the house by 6.30/6.45

Pre-DS2 it was all of the above just minus him! And,if I was lucky DH asking for something at 5 in the morning...hehehe....

on DHs work days:
7am DH gets up ('quietly' hahahahah!!!) and showers, dresses, then puts DDs porridge in the microwave. He grabs her bag for the day (she has a daycare bag, a swimming bag and then the shared nappy bag) and double checks it (I usually have it packed the night before) and puts in morning tea (I prepare the night before) or fruit for daycare
8am my alarm goes. I sneak out of bed, and hopefully shower without both kids waking. Then change bums/dress them if DH is busy, otherwise I eat brekkie and boob DS while he dresses DD, then I dress DS.
830 out the door.
non work days its the same routine, just no set times. infact sometimes I even get to sleep till 9ish, and DD will have brekkie with DH while DS and I snooze!

Before DD it was alarm at anywhere between 5.30 and 6.15 then dress, grab muesli bar and out the door on the way to the train station within 15min. Could make it 10 if I was running late.

Now with a 6 week old DD it's wake to her snuffling or fidgeting beside me in bed, breastfeed lying down, either go back to sleep or reach for phone or iPad. Unless we have to be somewhere its out of bed only when DD no longer wants to sleep or really needs a nappy change - somewhere between 8 and 10.30am. (Somewhere in there DH gets out of bed and heads to work too but I'm often barely awake when that happens.) when I finally get up I'm then faced with the big decisions - clothes or pajamas? Breakfast or just call it brunch now?

I can't imagine what things will be like when I go back to work in Feb. likely to involve 'hand DD to nanny' because I'll have to be at work long before any child care centers open.

Forgot to mention since the bassinet DD doesn't want to sleep in has replaced my bedside table I no longer know what time it is unless I grab my phone. Surprisingly it makes night times and middle of the night feeding much less stressful.

It has been so long since I worked I can't remember!!

Now I get up around 7am. Kids watch telly and I play with the baby for a bit until I realise it is 7.45am and we are going to be late. Feed kids their breakfast, scoff down my bit of toast and make the lunch boxes while they are eating. Then nag at DS to get dressed while gathering clothes for the girls and I. Dress the little kids, then myself. Lunch boxes in bags, hunt around for hats, jackets and shoes. Out the door by 8.40am for kindy drop off. I have been quite impressed at myself for getting 4 people dressed, fed and ready to go in less than an hour. I have managed it in 30 minutes if we have slept in. Of course the sacrifice has been my shower - used to have one every morning, but now jump in the bath/shower with the kids at night instead.

These days, my alarm goes off at 4.30am, I roll out of bed soon thereafter, and go to the gym.

After my gym class, I often have a quick (long) dip in the spa, and then a quick (long) shower, get dressed and go to work.

I have my brekky at work, and try to drink 2L of water.