How do you start the day?

[HappyMomma]

So what is your morning routine?

I get up and take puppy to the yard for a bit.
Go bathe and get dressed for work.
Wake up Dd and get her dressed then get her breakfast ready.
Feed puppy.
Take puppy back out to the yard.
Dry my hair.
Make my coffee for my commute while Dd is finishing up her breakfast.
Get Dd to brush her teeth while I brush her hair.
Get puppy settled in his crate with his chew toys.
Load up and start our commute to work and preschool.

[fallon]

let the dog out, coffee, check in on computer, get the kids out of bed, change the baby, feed the kids

[Dadu2004]

Originally Posted by Mindy

Smoke a cigarette while stying hair,

Be careful with that hairspray around your cigarette!

[HappyMomma]

Originally Posted by Mindy

Go for a pee (Hello, that's 1st, does no one else do that?)

Yep LOL -that is right between take Brodie out and bathe.

[Claire64]

Now that the kids are out of school for the summer, our mornings are a lot more relaxed.

I get up at 5, dressed and out the door by 5:15.
Work out at the gym from 5:20-6:40.
Home by 6:50, shower and eat
Get Landon and Nathan up and fed, dress Nathan
Take Landon to soccer (8:00)
The other kids wake up whenever and I make breakfast for them as they come down.


During the school year, it's more like

Up at 5, gym, home by 6:50
shower, get Landon, Sean and Kathleen up.
Make breakfast for them while they're getting showered and dressed
Wake Nathan up
Leave the house at 8, drop the kids off
Come home, bathe, dress and feed Nathan
Do hair, get dressed.

[HappyMomma]

Ah, you've got gym time.

I keep trying to get up earlier and work in some yoga time, but I hate getting up.

[samanthab]

I get up at 06:00. Preparing the family’s breakfast (Becky is a rhythmic gymnast – so she gets a special one). At 08:00 I drive to the office. Arriving at 02:00 pm again; preparing lunch, and the dinner for evening. Doing different afternoon tasks.

[Skyburning]

Alarm goes off at 6:45.
I'm out of bed and off to the kitchen to wash bottles.
Then I make the bottles.
Then I get to pee! Yay!
Then I wake up Nolan, change his diaper, and redress him.
Then we nurse.
Then I pack his diaper bag and it's off to daycare! (It's now 7:30)
Back home-and in bed!
Alarm goes back off at 9:30.
*pump pump pump*
Get dressed for day job.
Go to day job (11a.m.-2 p.m.)
Come home.
Shower.
Dry hair and get dressed.
Go pick up Nolan (It's now 4 p.m.)
Bring Nolan home and spend some fun time with him.
Depending on what day it is I then go to my night job until around midnight.
Repeat M-F (weekends optional)

[PennQuaker09]

Nate gets up at 5 (when he's not on call) and takes his shower and everything. So, usually, I'll get up with him. I like to make sure he has everything he needs and stuff. If the twins are up, I change them and give them a bottle until they go back to sleep. Nate usually leaves at 6:30 and then I go back to sleep. I might sleep an hour and a half, 2 if the stars are aligned and they stay asleep.

Once the twins wake up - usually between 8 and 8:45 I'll change them and feed them. I make it a point not to hold them all the time, so I'll put on some music for them and then I get in the shower - sometimes.

We go through a LOT of bottles, so my first task is usually loading the dishwasher with bottles and running it. Then I make 20 bottles. I make exactly 20 every morning and I make 20 more when Nate comes home. We keep the bottles in rotation.

My MIL was here with us, but she went back home so from 6:30 until about 6, I'm alone with the twins. It's been that way for about 3 weeks now. Right now Nate's sister comes over on Monday and Wednesday so that I can go to the gym. But we're going to get some part time help because I realized, I'm barely functioning.

Day to day, my routine changes. We're learning new things as the days go by.

[Music-dad]

Kayleigh usually crawls into bed with me about 8:15, and if I'm lucky I get an extra 10 mins of cuddle-sleep...then we get up, and I make her breakfast, and coffee (or iced tea) for me,... if it's a schoolday (Mon/Wed/every 2nd Fri) I do her hair get her dressed and walk her to school, the other day are called Daddy Daughter Days, and we watch movies, do crafts, play outside etc.