https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 03 May 2026 10:09:44 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-post-work-routine#post-2557363 Thu, 26 May 2016 15:18:52 +0000 babypugs 2557363@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>5:15-5:30 Get home<br /> 5:30-6:20 Let dogs out, feed dogs, get LO's dinner ready and hang out with her/read books while she eats<br /> 6:20-7:00 Play time, get ready for bed<br /> 7:00-7:30 Stories and songs<br /> 7:30 Bed for LO!!!<br /> 7:30-8:00 I work out, DH picks up/relaxes<br /> 8:00-9:00 Cook, eat<br /> 9:00-9:45 Hang out downstairs(read or Netflix) or do chores<br /> 9:45-11:00 Get ready for bed, read, bed</p> <p>I feel like with how late I stay up, I should accomplish more! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-post-work-routine#post-2557343 Thu, 26 May 2016 15:08:10 +0000 magnoliamama42 2557343@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband works from home. He leaves around 5 to go pick up LO from daycare. By the time I get home from work around 5:30, they're already back and he's feeding her supper in her high chair and washing her bottles from daycare.</p> <p>I go change out of my work clothes and then try to get her to eat a little more before usually giving up (as soon as I get home and she sees me, she wants out of her chair and to be held).</p> <p>Then I play with her and try to get a few chores done, catch up on our days with my husband. Sometimes I can make some dinner and scarf it down (I do most of the cooking on the weekends, so we eat leftovers during the week). If she's especially fussy (she's usually exhausted), I'll take her for a walk outside.</p> <p>We start the bath and bed routine sometime between 7-7:30. That's usually finished around 8/8:15. Whichever one of us isn't doing bath/bed packs her bottles for the next day, and gets her dinner for the next day cut up, portioned and in the fridge. After that, if I haven't already, I'll eat some dinner. </p> <p>I'm usually in bed by 9. So the only time I have in the entire day to either be by myself, take a shower, or veg out on my phone is during that 30-45 minute period after I put her to bed. It can be pretty exhausting. Of course, I'm trying to "be there" more for my husband at night, so even that short period of time is getting taken up.</p> <p>I'm also thinking I need to start waking up earlier to get chores done. My husband has been grumbling that he feels a lot of the household chores have been unfairly falling on his shoulders lately. Of course, he's got a whole hour and a half at the beginning of the day before he starts work with absolutely nothing to do and the whole house to himself, but ... that's a grumble for another day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-post-work-routine#post-2557316 Thu, 26 May 2016 14:49:32 +0000 DillonLion 2557316@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We get home around 6, let the dog out, heat up dinner (I try to meal prep on Sundays so all we have to do in the evenings is warm stuff up. </p> <p>The three of us alternate between relaxing on the couch, doing housework/yard work, eating, playing from 6-715. </p> <p>We start the bedtime routine around that time (bath, books, jammies, quit time in her room, and try to get her down by 8. </p> <p>After that, we usually hang in the living room. DH usually watches something on TV and I usually play on my phone/read/draw. I head to bed around 9 and DH stays up later. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-post-work-routine#post-2557315 Thu, 26 May 2016 14:48:46 +0000 Cherrybee 2557315@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We get in around 5.30. Coats and shoes off, TV on. I fetch E a snack and some warm milk (she eats dinner at daycare). DH gets in about 5.45. We watch kids TV until 6.45, or until E's behaviour gets bad, which is an indicator that she needs an early night. Then we go up to her room, get washed and into PJ's, then I read 4 books to her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-post-work-routine#post-2557303 Thu, 26 May 2016 14:34:43 +0000 sunny 2557303@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We get home around 6:15 when I'm working. I cook and DH plays with LO and try to start eating by 7. She's a S-L-O-W eater and we don't usually leave the table until 7:45. She plays or watches Netflix until 8. Then we head upstairs for bath and stories. In bed by about 8:45 to 9. She is usually asleep fairly quickly unless she napped in the car on the way home! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-post-work-routine#post-2557295 Thu, 26 May 2016 14:27:29 +0000 shabang 2557295@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Home around 6pm. Feed baby. Change diapers. Unload bags, repack for tomorrow. Someone walks the dog, other person starts on dinner - continual interruption by both baby and toddler. Eat quickly (usually taking turns). Feed baby (she cluster-feeds in the evenings). Change diapers. When there's time, one of the kids gets a bath. Baby feed/bed by 8pm. Go back downstairs to clean up while he gets toddler ready for bed. Story for toddler, then sometimes, we both don't pass out from exhaustion. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-post-work-routine#post-2557264 Thu, 26 May 2016 14:04:35 +0000 BananaPancakes 2557264@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I get home around 5. My husband gets home a various times. Sometimes its 5, sometimes its 8, but he's usually home around 6.</p> <p>I immediately start dinner and let DS play. I almost always start laundry while I'm cooking. Dinner's usually done by 6, we eat together is dad is home, then I clean up while they play outside. I shower with DS around 7, then get him dressed for bed. He's down around 8, and then I finish cleaning anything that needs it and get us packed for the next day. I'm typically in bed by 9 and asleep by 10. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-post-work-routine#post-2557260 Thu, 26 May 2016 14:00:49 +0000 ValentineMommy 2557260@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We get home around 4pm. I change out of work clothes while DH feeds DS2 his bottle. Then we all kinda relax/play until 5ish, when I make dinner. We eat around 5:30. Afterwards, depending on how long it took DS1 to eat, we play some games together if there's time. If not, we head straight to baths. At 7ish, DS2 has his bottle and goes to bed, while DH and DS1 get his teeth brushed and pjs on. When I'm done with DS2, we all watch a show together or play on the ipad. Around 8:15, DS1 goes to bed. Then we both get ready for the next day, and afterward watch TV together until bedtime. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-post-work-routine#post-2557255 Thu, 26 May 2016 13:57:39 +0000 PawPrints 2557255@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We all get home around 5:15-5:30, let the dogs into the backyard and then back inside, DH and I play with DD for a few minutes if she's in a good mood or lately try to comfort her while she screams in anger at having been woken up (her commute home with DH is 45 minutes long and she sleeps for most of it). One of us pulls some food out of the fridge and preps it for DD then we feed her in her high chair which takes around 20 minutes. Then we begin DD's bedtime routine: diaper, pajamas, nurse, brush teeth, story, lights out, song, crib. She puts herself to sleep by about 6:45-7 and I start making my/DH's dinner, then we eat around 7:30-8, then we hang out/watch shows/exercise until our bedtime. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-post-work-routine#post-2557247 Thu, 26 May 2016 13:55:25 +0000 snowjewelz 2557247@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's all a blur.. </p> <p>The earliest I get home is 6pm, so usually as soon as I get home, I take DD to wash our hands and we sit down for dinner. She's a slow eater though, so usually we're eating past 6:30pm. Then she can play for a little while, go outside if she wants (I don't usually encourage it though b/c she will never want to come back in). A little after 7pm we start bed time routine, some days bath, some days not. I aim to have her in bed by 7:30. She had been falling asleep in 10-15 min, but lately she takes like 1+ hr!! And I've been so exhausted that I just pass out along with her, leaving poor DH to clean up everything. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-post-work-routine#post-2557235 Thu, 26 May 2016 13:50:17 +0000 regberadaisy 2557235@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What happens when you get home till the kids are in bed?</p> <p>We get home about 5-515. We get the kids inside, cleaned up and some water. One of us takes the dog out. We get dinner started and on the table by 6pm, at the latest. Lately the girls want to eat out on the patio every night. Meals have been easy so we're usually done eating by 6:20pm. We bring all the dishes inside then girls come help me water the flowers and vegetable garden. DH will do yard work and outside projects. Then at 7pm I take the girls in for bathtime. They get to play a bit before bedtime which is more like 7:45 lately for DD2. And often she won't fall asleep till 8:30 on a good night. On the nights I solo I'll tuck DD1 in bed before I put DD2 down now. </p>