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I get up at 545 or 615, depending if I have to wash my hair or not, and get ready.
R wakes up anywhere 630-700. Change her diaper, get her dressed. Some days she eats breakfast at home, depends on how late she sleeps, or we take. Leave 715 for day care, there within 2 mins.

I pack anything I have to bring for her (pouches, diapers,) the night before. I make my lunch as well.

Get up and shower between 6:30 and 7.
Get ready, do hair, and makeup.
If LO wakes up before I'm done getting ready, DH will go in and change his diaper and entertain him.
Give LO his medicine and feed him at 7:30 while DH gets bottles, pump parts ready and showers.
I get LO ready at 8 and then I change before we leave.
All 3 of us are out the door together by 8:20.

I wake up at 5am. It sucked but I needed to get started before her. I woke up and did hair and makeup, packed my lunch or started the crockpot (sometimes I did this the night before)....and then whenever E woke up, I would feed and change and dress her. Then load the car and out we went. We had bottles just for daycare that got washed the night before

Once in awhile she wakes up before me. And I hold her in one arm while doing makeup, let her play on the floor when some toys while I braid my hair and dress, and now that she's older, cheese sticks and puffs distract her. We're out the door at 7, she's up now anywhere between 6 and 630. I just like quiet coffee time in the am. I clean and do stuff before she gets up like fold laundry

Night before: shower, pack my lunch, set out clothes for both me and E, set up the coffee maker

6:30 alarm goes off
Snooze until 6:45
Get dressed, hair/makeup
Put coffee in travel mug, throw all my crap in the car
7:10 wake up E (assuming he's not up already. If he's up already I give him a bottle of milk and a banana, or send him in to hang out with D for a few minutes)
7:15 change diaper/get E dressed
7:25 in the car

E ears breakfast at daycare, and I have a protein shake in the car on the way to work.

We've got a good routine going on. E just turned 2. MWF this is usually how it goes...

6:30 wake up, shower, dress

7:00 DD wakes, get her changed and dressed. She plays while I finish doing my hair/makeup

7:15 go to kitchen to do breakfast. Make E eggs or scoop out yogurt or Cheerios. Make my own breakfast. Eat, read email, watch Today show

8:00 head to car for daycare

8:40 daycare drop off

9:00 at work.

Her new daycare provides all meals and snacks which is making it so much easier on me. Plus we get to sleep in an extra 15 min which helps.

5:00 Wake up and get LO who has been crying since 4:45. Feed her (until this week that meant nursing, now it means oatmeal, now)
5:15 Play
6:00 DH wakes up. He makes breakfast.
6:15 Adults eat
6:20 We take turns showering and getting dressed
6:45 Get LO dressed and pack bag (just an empty straw cup now)
7:00 I leave
7:25 DH & LO leave

@blackbird: totally!! I'm so spoiled.

Everything's gonna change this fall when #3 arrives, though. Back to the sleepless nights with a newborn and the added bonus of a 2 year old. I'm so fearful that this one will be a super early riser bc my other two are late sleepers like their mom.

Noon: wake up and feed Zuma
12:15-3:00 play and laugh
3:00 feed Zuma again
3:15-4:00 possible nap
4:00-4:30 bath
4:50 call work to find out assignment
5:00-5:30 nap for Zuma
6:00 feed Zuma
6:20 leave Zuma

I'll do our routine from when Xander was still EBF:

4:30 - wake up and shower
5:00 - make-up, hair, get ready except getting dressed, get bottles ready for daycare
5:30 - nurse Xander (change diaper if it's stinky, otherwise try to not wake him)
6:00 - pump!
6:30 - leave for work (Hubs gets up)
7:15 - Hubs gets up Xander for the day and gets him dressed and takes him to daycare.

Whenever DS wake up I feed him, usually between 6:30 and 7:30.
If I take a shower in the morning I get up at 7, if not I get us both up at 7:30.
Change diaper and dress baby
Put baby in bouncy seat and get ready in bathroom (brush teeth, hair, etc.)
Get myself dressed
Go downstairs and pack baby bag. Hope that DH made bottles.
8:15 - leave for daycare
8:30 - arrive at daycare
9:00 - arrive at work.

I get up around 5:45 before DS wakes up and get myself ready. Then I get his bottles ready, pack my pumping bag, and put it all in my car. Come back inside and grab a diaper and change of clothes for DS and change him. Put him in the car and drop him off at daycare. Daycare will give him his first bottle and breakfast a few hours later.

DS likes to nurse around 4 so that helps buy me sometime.

So DH and I commute together and drop DD off on the way to work. Sometimes though, he has either an early or late meeting which requires him to drive separately, and we are always much more on time without him!

Night before: fill milk and water cups for daycare. Prep my lunch. Prep my breakfast. Shower. Lay out clothes for DD and me.

6:30 - I wake up, wash face/brush teeth/put on makeup/get dressed

7:00 - Wake up DD. Change her diaper and change her into the clothes I laid out on her floor the night before.

7:10 - Nurse DD

7:20 - Go downstairs and get DD's breakfast ready (DH has usually cooked her an egg by this point. I add some fruit and milk or water to her tray).

7:25 - While DD is eating breakfast, I do her hair and put on her shoes. I heat up my breakfast and feed the cat. I make coffee and put it in my travel mug.

7:35 - DD finishes her breakfast while I sit down and eat with her.

7:40 or 7:45 - Wipe off DD's hands and face. Clear and wash dishes. Pack everything into the car.

7:55 - Leave for daycare/work.

The night before: I get my Timi & Leslie clutch packed with my keys, license, CC, etc. I put his shoes outside of his bedroom along with my purse. I pick out his outfit and leave it on the daybed.

5:30am: alarm goes off
6am: usually up by then
6-6:30am: getting dressed and makeup, keeping an eye on LO in the monitor
7am: wash grapes and pack my lunch bits
7:15-7:30 (if I'm WFH): wake up LO, change diaper, get him dressed, and out the door.
7:35-7:45am drop off LO and drive back home
grab lunch and bag, walk to the EL. I get in by 8:30am or so.

@SMURFETTE - Yes, probably 40 minutes on average. Part of it is that DS makes it really difficult for me to cook when I'm home by myself, but I try to make some kind of vegetable dish with every breakfast (roasted squash, multi-veggie 'scramble', steamed veggies, etc.). The prep usually takes 15 minutes or so and then another 15-20 minutes of actual cooking. I know I'll need to do a lot of prep work in advance and plan really well, but I'm just really nervous that I won't be able to manage. Cooking every meal is the thing that is really most important to me on a daily basis, so hopefully I'll be able to manage it somehow..

Current Schedule:

If K sleeps until I wake her -
5:45am: Alarm goes off. I shower/get ready.
6am or 6:20am (if I straightened my hair): down stairs for coffee, packing my lunch, making K's two bottles for DC.
6:30am: Back upstairs to apply makeup, pick out my clothes and get the dog up.
6:40am: quick walk for dog
6:45am: make K's morning bottle, go up and wake her up, diaper change, bottle feed
7am: K plays in her crib for a minute while I go change myself, then come back to get her dressed.
7:10am: out the door

If K wakes at some point during that process prior to 6:45am - I simply stop what I am doing and go get her, change her, feed her and usually either let her play in her crib or bring her downstairs to hang in the rnp until I am done with my "chores"

Note: some mornings I am making dinner, aka putting stuff in the crock pot...we need to get better about doing this more often.

I am planning to start getting up two mornings at 5am so I can go for a jog...fingers crossed I can swing it!

ETA - I do this all while DH blissfully sleeps!

@Dagny: Wow! I can't imagine that. I would think you are going to have to do major prep work on the weekends or the night before. It is tough trying to get out of the house on time. Unless you have a job that is flexible and doesn't care if you are late.
I hope it works out for you though if it is that important to you. Maybe you can always make egg muffins and have chopped up veggies in those?

@dagny, that's not sustainable, IMO. I would look at a crustless quiche, too. I will sometimes prep dinner in the AM, but 40 min is...insane

cut your veggies on the weekend and toss them into a greased pan. Pour egg on top. Bake. Done. You're going to have to seriously streamline/simplify that, honestly.

6:30 - shower & get ready
7: LO usually wakes up on her own, I get her milk and change diaper
7:10: finished getting ready & dress LO.
7:30: out the door.

This looks so easy...haha it's not always the case.

Yeah I thought the responses to my question might be along those lines... Well I know I won't be able to do exactly what I'm doing now, but hopefully if I plan and prep ahead of time and wake up really early, I'll still manage to be able to cook a basic meal in the mornings. I could always steam veggies the night before and warm them up, that kind of thing. It will certainly be a change!! I think what I'm most worried about is feeling rushed when we eat breakfast together. I definitely can't compromise on sitting down to eat breakfast with LO (it's just my thing), so I'll have to come up with a game plan and do the best I can.

There are so many options for breakfasts, especially things you can make ahead! For veggies, if you are committed to doing them fresh in the morning, I'd prep them the night before. One thing I learned to do is to shred zucchini, it cooks up super fast and is quite delicious!

One thing I have been dying to try is where you make omelettes in baggies...you basically crack the eggs into a ziplock bag and then you toss the whole thing in boiling water.