Hellobee Boards

Haha, cleaning. That's funny.

5:30am wake up and get ready
6am wake M
6am-6:30am get M dressed, fed and ready to go, pack my lunch, her lunch and make coffee.
6:40 leave the house.
7 arrive at daycare
730 arrive at work

4 leave work
425 pick up M
445 get home.
530 dinner.
6-630 bath, bedtime routine, into crib.

630-7 relax.
7-8 chores. Clean up from dinner, do any other household chores.
8-9 whatever.
9-930 get ready for and into bed.

Hah...cleaning...

We wake up at 530ish, bring LO into our bed, DH feeds her while I work out and shower, and then DH and LO to back to sleep until 645. He then gets himself ready while I dress her and put our lunches together. We're out the door at 715. She doesn't eat breakfast yet and when she does we're going to have daycare feed her. There's just no time!

I pick her up at 515, am home by 530. I feed LO her dinner while DH makes our dinner. We eat, then it's story time with me, bath time at 630 with daddy, then bottle and bed at 645.

I clean on the weekends....if I have time

We get up at 6:30.
Feed the baby (milk).
Let her play for a few minutes while I (quickly) get ready.
Feed the baby her solids.
Change her into her clothes for the day.
Let her play for a few minutes while I scramble to get bottles ready.
Out the door by 7:30 or 7:45.

We get home by 5:30.
Feed the baby solids for dinner.
Play for a few minutes.
Bath if it's bath night.
Get her into her jammies.
Nurse.
Books and bed, usually by 6:30-7:00
(Husband usually cooks dinner while I do bedtime routine)
We eat, clean (haha, that's the goal at least!), and get things ready for the next day.

Our LO is 6 months old. It is hectic, and I feel like I don't get to see her much on workdays.

Yes we are super organized. It's the only way things get done! And we hired a cleaning lady for the deep cleaning.

I get up around 5/530
Wake up E around 645
Day care at 7
Work 730-4
DH picks up E at 430
Gym (me)
Home 6
Dinner 615ish
Bath 630-7 ish
Bed 7-730ish

Clean mostly on weekends or after she goes to bed. We go to bed at 9. It took a few months but we have it down pretty routinely now. Whoever doesn't do the baby bath cleans the kitchen. Since I'm up so early, that's when I clean and watch tv and do the like. I food shop Saturdays and always make at least one bulk item on Sundays.

LO is 20 months old and we both woh.

LO usually wakes up at 6 am. We nurse and snuggle for another 30 minutes.
6:30 the whole family is up. DH takes the dog potty while I change LO. Then he takes her while I shower and get ready for work. While I'm doing that he makes breakfast, gets her bag together, makes coffee for him and tea for me.
Out the door by 7:00-7:20
He drops Me off at the train, LO off at daycare daycare the he goes home.
DH usually cleans up from breakfast then and gets ready for work.
He gets out at 4 goes to pick LO up from daycare then me up at the train.
We're usually home by 5. We make dinner together and eat by 6. One of us will bathe LO while the other does dinner clean up. LO is usually in bed by 7:30.

On the nights where DH works till 9pm LO and I eat leftovers or I make something quick like sauté shrimp with egg noodles and tomato sauce. I always have something easily thrown together in to the freezer for her. On nights I will usually take out a freezer meal for DH and I.

DH does a lot of cleaning in the morning. Often on his days off he does thorough cleanings. I pick up the slack evenings and weekends. Although being in the first tri I'm pretty useless right now!

It all seems a little daunting at the beginning but you'll get into a groove. At that age LO was asleep very shortly after bringing home. So we would Nurse, play for a bit then bed time routine. DH and I wouldn't eat dinner till she went to bed.

For us it's important that gets a well balanced home cooked meal nights. So we prioritize that.

Our days go something like this:

5:45 - alarm goes off and I get up to shower
6:30- breakfast/coffee for me
7:00- wake lo, change diaper/clothes brush her teeth I to the car by 7:20 at the latest
7:35 drop her off and chat for a few minutes
8:00 @ work

DH picks her up sometime between 3-4:15. We're all home by 4:30 (I just switched my hours. I was doing 4 long days but it's just too hard with a LO)

4:30-5:30 play and prep dinner
5:30 eat Dinner/clean up
6:30 bath time and bedtime routine
7:15 in her crib

7:15-10:00 do whatever, depending on exhaustion level I will either clean or lounge. I try to be asleep by 10:30!

F is a little over a year. We're not super organized but we have a routine down and it doesn't work as well without both of us doing chores.

AM:
Wake @ 6
F hangs out/plays & we get dressed/brush teeth/feed the dog
Mr. makes his lunch with F & I finish getting ready
One of us changes/dresses F, the other tidies up (dishes from last night, etc)
Mr leaves at 6:30. F eats & I load up the car
F& I leave for daycare @ 7; there @ 7:15; I'm to work @ 7:45
**when F was little it was slightly different because we nursed before I left.**

PM:
Mr. picks up F around 4:15, home around 4:30.
F plays, Mr. feeds dog & gets items together for dinner.
I'm home around 5. Mr. takes dog on walk, F plays, I tidy up (laundry if needed, etc)
F eats dinner @ 5:45 (previous nights dinner)
Mr & I cook while F eats.
Mr. does bath/jammies at 6; I finish dinner & clean up kitchen (used to wash bottles/pump parts during this time)
I put F to sleep at 6:30ish
Mr & I eat at 7, then prep house for am (lunches, etc).
We relax, do projects, & take turns showering and go to bed between 9-10

I work Tuesday through Thursday:

645: we are up. I nurse and dress LO while DH showers
7:30 DH takes LO to daycare. He eats breakfast there.
8:30 I leave for work (the hour is really nice. We started it when I had morning sickness before that I did drop off)
5:00 I leave to pick LO up.
5:45 get home. Sometimes LO nurses, sometimes he doesn't.
6:00 I cook dinner. Usually something simple or a crockpot meal or leftovers. I save harder things for my days off.
6:30 or 6;45 ish - eat. LO eats with us unless he is starving then DH will feed him while I cook.
7:30 start bed time routine.
8:00 I nurse him. DH cleans the kitchen at the same time.
8:30 I will straighten up the house.
9:00 maybe an episode of TV.
10-10:30 bed.

I clean on my days off and DH often does laundry on the weekend. It's hard to find time for some projects though. We are usually just too exhausted.

I'm finding these schedules really fascinating! Thank you all for sharing. Our LO isn't here yet, but we'll both be WOH starting next school year, so it's good to see how the routine works. I obviously don't know, but I have a feeling one of our biggest hiccups is that I don't like to eat dinner until later-7:30 or so. So, I have a feeling LO will be eating way before DH and I do.

I am super organized, but it is still overwhelming. My DD is 11.5 months. Both DH and I WOH, but luckily my hours are pretty reasonable (his are not).

6:05 - alarm goes off
either DH or I go to the gym and return at 7:30. The other one showers and hangs out with DD. If it's my gym day, I wake DD to nurse at 6:15 and then put her back down (she sleeps another 45 minutes or so). Otherwise I nurse her when she wakes up. If it's my day at home:
6:45 - DD wakes up and I nurse
7:00 - I shower while DD plays in the bathroom
7:15 - DD and I go downstairs to make breakfast and pack her bag for the day. DD plays or eats breakfast in her high chair.
7:45/8:00 - DH and I finish getting ready
8:15 - DH leaves, I get DD dressed for the day
8:25 - Drop DD off at nanny share house
9:00 - I arrive at work
5:00 - I leave work
5:25 - pick up DD at nanny share house
5:30 - DD plays while I change my clothes, put her cups/lunch containers in the dishwasher. I play with DD.
6:00 - DD her eats dinner in her highchair while I start dinner prep.
6:30/45 - DH gets home. DD gets a bath or we play in the living room.
7:15 - nurse
7:30 - DH puts DD to bed, I make dinner
8:00 - adult dinner + tv/reading + get lunches organized for the next day
10:00/10:30 - bedtime for me

Cleaning happens in fits and starts or on weekends. We really need to get a new cleaning lady (fired the last one in October because she was terrible.) Laundry happens overthe weekend - we usually do 3-4 loads/weekend.

@Cherrybee: I'm super lazy.

Dinner: So I only make dinner about twice a week, we eat leftovers from those dinners twice a week, and the rest of the time we forage for food in our cabinets and eat things like cereal for dinner. Or chips and salsa. True story. We used to order in on those nights, but now that LO is MSPI, my restaurant days are over.

Cleaning: HAH. no seriously, we only clean when we are having people over.

Laundry: I put a load in almost every day when I get home from work because LO has inevitably pooped/peed/spit up on something at day care and so I just throw in whatever else is dirty with her day care stuff. However, I hate folding and hanging up laundry, so clean clothes often languish for days on our guest bed. (shrug. See "cleaning" section above for how often we actually put all the clothes away).

Packing for day care: I do lay out LO's clothes and we make her three day care bottles the night before and keep them in the fridge (I EP, so it's milk I pumped that day).

Packing my own work bags (pump parts, lunch): I usually do that in the morning while pumping.

Schedule:

5:45 wakeup. 5 minute shower if I didn't shower the night before. Have to be pumping by 6 am.

6:00-6:30 am pump while drying hair, brushing teeth, packing lunch, dressing bottom half, drinking coffee.

6:30-6:45--turn into a Mom Tornado as I run around the house frantically, washing pump parts, throwing things into my pump bag, dressing top half, looking for sock, cursing at not finding matching socks or discovering we're out of bread for my lunch.

6:40-6:45--husband inevitably chooses my last 5 minutes in the house to suddenly have a MASSIVE NEED to be in the bathroom right during my mom tornado phase, when I need to be brushing my teeth or looking for a bobby pin or something, so we usually exchange some choice words.

6:45 (okay, more like 6:50) I leave for work.

Everything at this point is guesswork as I am gone and it's all DH at this point....

6:50-7:30--DH showers, irons his clothes, shaves, and gets dressed.

7:30--DH wakes LO and dresses her
7:40--DH loads LO and her daycare bag into the stroller
7:50-- drops LO at day care
8:00--makes it to the bus for work

Afternoon:
4:15-- I pick up LO from Day care
4:30--get home and unload LO and day care stuff, prep bottle
4:45--LO takes 3rd nap of the day. LO has feeding issues, so I wait till she's asleep then sneak back in to feed her.
5:00 pm-- unload LO's daycare bottles and clothes, throw clothes in to wash, wash bottles and my pump parts from the day Either start prepping dinner or collapse in exhausted heap on couch.
5:30 pm LO wakes up and we have play time
6:30 pm DH comes home and we have family time (or he has play time with LO and I continue cooking dinner)
7:00 pm--solids with LO
7:15--LO bath
7:30-8:00pm --bed routine with LO. Once again, we have to wait until she falls asleep to feed her.

8:15 pm-- we eat dinner and relax/watch tv/talk, etc.

9 pm: I pump again.
9:30 wash pump parts, DH packs night time and next day's day care bottles. I lay out LO's clothes
10 pm: bed (or sometimes I take a shower and I don't go to bed until 11).

Here's our current schedule, DD is 3.5yo and DS is 16m. When DS was still nursing I would nurse him from 6-6:30AM and during storytime at night. I make out a menu on Saturday before going to the grocery but don't really do any prep ahead of time unless a specific meal calls for it. I do all laundry on the weekend, usually start it Friday night and finish it Saturday or at latest Sunday morning.

5AM: alarm goes off
5:30AM: either DH or I get up and shower, followed by the other one
6AM: we wake up both LO, divide and conquer getting them dressed
6:30AM: I take kids to sitter's house (they eat breakfast at sitter's)
7AM: commute to work
5:30PM: I get home from work/DH gets home with LOs
6-6:30PM: target time for dinner as a family
7PM: we get DS ready for bed, DH reads him a story while I cuddle him
8PM: we get DD ready for bed, read story and pray
8:15-10PM: evening chores/pack lunches/relax
10PM: bed