It's just SO insanely crazy. Can't catch a breath. Can't ever get ahead and we're running out the door like mad people. We're lucky if we don't forget something.
Usually I do all the prep work and dishes the night before. But I've been sick as a dog and my period came back after PP and I just have not been able to deal with it the last few nights.
Blegh. Mornings suck.
GOLD / squash / 13576 posts
Yes, they do! My morning was rough as well. I spilled my drink on me on my way to work and had to turn around, go back home and put on a different shirt. Oh well, I only have a week and a half at this job.
coconut / 8861 posts
Mornings were tougher before we divided up the routine. I get the baby's clothes and milk out. I usually end up feeding the baby before he leaves for daycare. My husband dresses the baby and gets him to daycare. I have to be in the office by 8-8:30am, so this works for us.
GOLD / squash / 13576 posts
@cascademom: That's nice! DH is gone before LO wakes up so it's me and 2 crazy dogs every morning.
coconut / 8861 posts
@littlek: It took some time to implement and a stern warning from my boss about being late to get it together. This morning LO woke up at 6am with a wet sleeper and sleepsack. It didn't matter schedule wise because it's my work from home day, so we got him to daycare early. I also changed him into his day clothes if he fell back asleep. Not the first time I've done that. Some days it works better than others, but overall, it makes mornings manageable.
coconut / 8234 posts
Mornings are usually frantic. I try to prepare her bottles, get her clothes out, and prepare my breakfast & lunch for work the night before...but many times I end up falling asleep when I put her down. And DH doesn't think, "Oh, maybe I should prep the bottles or get her clothes out," so when that happens I'm screwed in the morning.
I then have to get her into the stroller (on really cold days she's in the snowsuit which she hates) and then take a friggin' 15 minute uphill walk to the nanny share house. Whew.
Although this morning we are both still in our PJs and I am working from home because the little lady has a fever.
grapefruit / 4442 posts
DH is in charge of walking our dog in the morning. I refresh her diaper bag at night and have it right by the door. I pump when I wake up, shower, dressed, cook our dog's food, feed the cat, get LO's clothing ready for the morning, pack her milk and place it in the fridge, then I wake her change her diaper, feed her put on her clothes on, grab the milk and diaper bag and off we go.
DH leaves the house at 7 in the morning do he can't do much to help in the morning.
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
Insane. I do it all alone b/c my husband leaves for work super early and I'm sweating my ass off by the time I leave the house. I prepare his food and bottles the night before. Now that he's mobile, it's even more crazy.
Today, I could not locate my keys and it was bad. I may or may not have cried.
@littlek: Did you get the other job!?
honeydew / 7303 posts
Mornings suck for us too, and we divide everything. We don't have a set routine in the morning so it's usually chaos. I can't wait until I have a shorter commute and don't have to leave so early!!
GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts
I think the part that kills us is she never wakes up at the same time. Sometimes it's 5am, sometimes 5:30 sometimes 6 sometimes 7. If she'll wake up at 5:30am to nurse then go back to sleep till 7 like she did on Monday & Tuesday it will be PERFECT.
squash / 13199 posts
@regberadaisy: my mornings are crazy too, its always hectic and a mad rush to get out the door. I try waking up earlier but then there is always something that slows me down
grapefruit / 4442 posts
@regrberdaisy LO did the same thing this morning. She was wide wake at 6:30 I was trying to get her to go back to sleep but she wouldnt have it so I put her in her RnP and had her watch some of the news while I showered really quickly and then pulled the RnP to the bathroom while I got ready. I have no idea how I got out the door on time.
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
@regberadaisy: Same, except the latest he will wake is 6:30 (and that's IF he had a night waking). So, he wakes up when we wake up and I have to get ready for work with him crawling around everywhere and demanding my attention.
coconut / 8279 posts
Mornings got better after DS weaned and I wasn't pumping/nursing. I hated trying to fit in nursing/pumping/cleaning pump into my morning on top of everything else.
coconut / 8279 posts
@bunnylove08: I miss the days I could put him in his RnP while I showered. DS is 13 months and walking/getting into everything. Our bathroom is tiny but I'm tempted to pull the PnP in there for showers/getting ready sometimes!
blogger / watermelon / 14218 posts
We're like drill sergeants in the morning. We have a routine and both of us are extremely good at it!!! Right now we're lucky because our nanny comes to our house at 7am and she can take LMW pretty much immediately, and LMW can usually hang out in her crib if she wakes up before then. So that just leaves getting Wagon Jr. up, dressed, fed, and out the door for daycare. I'm just basically in charge of getting Wagon Sr. and I both awake and started... then I pump and get ready and that takes almost an hour. Wagon Sr. gets ready and gets Wagon Jr. fed and ready, then we all leave together.
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
@littlek: Congrats! When do you start the new job?
GOLD / papaya / 10166 posts
It took forever, but we finally have a routine down. The problem is getting out the door before 8... that almost never happens anymore, but thankfully our work is pretty lenient on schedules.
I get all of her food and bottles packed the night before. I'm usually up at 6 and ready by 6:45, which is the same time DH gets up. I'll go get DD, get her dressed and bring her to the kitchen to feed her. We try to get out the door by 7:30, but it's usually closer to 7:45. Time seems to get away from us while we're getting her dressed or feeding her.
persimmon / 1427 posts
Mornings are manageable if the stars align and:
- LO's clothes are laid out the night before
- My work bags (purse, pump, laptop) are all packed up and ready to go
- My clothes are laid out the night before
- LO's bottles and meals/snacks are made
- LO doesn't wake up until I'm showered and mostly ready
If anything doesn't go according to plan, its chaotic.
bananas / 9357 posts
This is my first week back, but it's been going good. We do have a nanny that comes to the house though, so that makes it so much easier. The only annoying thing is pumping.
GOLD / squash / 13576 posts
@mrs. wagon: That's nice!
@mrskc: that's a great thing about a nanny, you don't have to get all the daycare stuff ready. I'm jealous. I would like a nanny but DH is strongly against it.
@Bluebonnet: hahahaha that's what i must be missing.. the stars aren't aligning for me.. I knew it couldn't be me 
GOLD / squash / 13576 posts
@winniebee: I'm so sorry... I have melt downs when I can't find my keys, phone, sanity, whatever...
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
@Bluebonnet: I don't think the stars have ever aligned one morning for me, that must be my problem!
grapefruit / 4442 posts
@rachiecakes if you you leave the PnP in front of the door it would work too.
honeydew / 7488 posts
Crazy morning here too! I echo what so many other ladies have said about the stars needing to align and DH leaving the house before being able to do anything helpful for anyone. Usually I am barking orders and pratically yelling at the 2 kids by the time we leave the house. And I don't know about anyone else, but somehow my DS seems to ALWAYS dirty his diaper right before I need to leave the house (and especially if I was already running late). It's murphy's law, I swear.
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