Today has already been busy and it’s only 8:30 as I write this!! I thought I would give you a look into a typical weekday with me.
The alarm goes off at 7am but one of the children will normally already be up. We are pretty rubbish at getting up so we’ll aim to be up with the half 7 hooter on Fun Kids Radio. Then is the battle of getting the children dressed (their clothes are put out the night before). Once this is done and all bathroom jobs are finished, we go downstairs for breakfast. At this point, me or Phil will gather up all the washing and take it downstairs.
Before school: Phil tends to sort out breakfast and school lunches while I put the first load of washing on. I really hope we will only need to do 1 load a day very soon but with the smallest still wetting the bed fairly regularly, we have sheets to wash too. I then unstack the dishwasher and reload it with the breakfast things. Next is the shoes and hair debacle. Jonah strops upstairs because we’ve asked him to do his hair and Grace can’t decide how many bobbles she wants in. When that is all finally sorted, it’s shoe time and off we go. If Phil is working from home or off, he likes to walk them and enjoys the gentle stroll. If it’s me, we jump in the car to save my arthritic knee!
During the day: When the washing machine finishes, I take that out and put the next load in. Any smalls get pegged onto the octopus and the wet load then goes in the spin dryer to get the excess water out and then onto the airer or radiators (the outside washing line fell off the wall last week!). I open a couple of windows upstairs if Phil is at home and then I go to work. I’m normally back home between 11:30 and 12:30 and I put the newly wet load in the spinner and put any wet bits from the previous load in the Tumble dryer for 60 minutes. I swap the spinner clothes onto the airer or radiators and then sit until Phil is on lunch or about 1:15 if he’s not at home.
Lunch: this is always fun as I’m on the slimming world diet and I really don’t ever fancy a meal (unless it’s pizza!). So I have this debate with myself about what to eat and do that. Phil eats everything!!
Afternoon (the 1 hour before the school run): The afternoon varies. Sometimes I do some work (dancing school, Body Shop, Gift Horse or Mighty Maids stuff), sometimes I do some of my own cleaning and other times I sit and do something for me. I will generally put the clean washing in the right rooms too. Then comes the school run where I normally get drenched because the English weather knows when it’s 3pm!
Afternoon (after school): the children get in and have their list of things to do (I will write about this later on!) and then have free time. I spend as much time with them as I can and then I start tea. Phil finishes at 5:30 so we try and eat together and then we watch some tv, play a board game or take part in one of the children’s mad games.
Bedtime: this starts at 7:15 when the echo tells the children to tidy up and then at 7:20 says that it’s bath or bed time. Phil has always done the bedtime routine so off they go to do that. One child has a bath or shower then they both have bedtime story together with Phil and then bed. Jonah will read a bit and then go to sleep.
Adult time (it’s not what it sounds like!): while Phil is doing bed time, I sort the table out, put the things in the dishwasher and put it on and get the tv ready for whatever we’re watching. And we watch, fall asleep on the settee and stumble to bed between 11 and 1!
What does your typical day look like?
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