I have seen other people write up their daily routines on their blogs, just as a kind of a keepsake. Something you can look back on 5 years from now and go “wow, I can’t believe I used to do that!” I have been wanting to do it for a few months and am just now sitting down to do it. So, as of now, with a 4.5 month old, and a 2 year old, here is our daily routine:
6:00 Alarm goes off
6:00:30 Snooze
6:09 Alarm goes off
6:09:30 Snooze
6:18 Turn the alarm off and slowly get out of bed
6:20 Start getting ready
6:35 Finish getting ready (15 minutes? That would explain why I look the way I do everyday.)
6:36 Start waking Cole up
6:40 Hopefully by now I have Cole out of bed and at least into the living room with a cup of milk, sometimes changing his diaper
At any point during this time, Cass could wake up and want to eat. Sometimes he just wakes up and I change him and he hangs out while I pray, “please wait till we leave to get hungry so they can feed you at daycare!!” Other times, he will wake up at 6 and I’ll feed him until Justin can take a break and feed him while I try to get ready.
6:41 Cole is eating breakfast, starting to wake up and is either coughing and puking in his coffee can, aka puke bucket (I say puke, but really he’s just coughing up phlegm..although sometimes that leads to puking for real)…or he’s just eating breakfast being a silly boy, telling Daddy he can’t go to work yet, and to take him with him.
6:50 I try to sit down and eat with Cole…it all depends on what Cass is doing
7:00 Either Justin or I am trying to get Cole dressed and brush his teeth and get Cass dressed and changed
7:15 Throw my clothes on hopefully
7:25 I need to be starting to load the kids, but hardly ever get this done on time. I take Cole to the car with whatever arm full of toys he wants for the morning, and take Cass’ diaper bag and my bag and purse and my (Heaven sent) Dr Pepper
7:30 I need to be pulling out of the garage…
7:35 I’m usually pulling out of the garage…
7:35:15 Cole has to close the garage door – push the but-ton mama??
7:35:20 He doesn’t push the but-ton hard enough so I end up pushing the button and the garage door closes…we all cheer Yea!!! The door’s closing!!
7:45 I drop the boys off at daycare
7:55 I arrive at work and start my day. I’m usually sweaty and exhausted already just from getting them all loaded in the car, and then unloaded.
12:00 lunch time – I usually use this time to run errands: go pick up milk, diapers, formula, whatever I forgot at the grocery store on the weekend.
5:00 I leave work as quick as I can, so I can go get my boys
5:10 I pick them up. Cole immediately says “watch Super Why? Mama??” “Yes, we’ll watch Super Why? as soon as we get home.
5:20 Cole starts arguing with me about whether or not Justin is home. “Daddy’s not home. He’s at work.” (that’s what Cole always says, no matter what I try to tell him)
5:30 (I think) I usually get home, and Justin’s already there. He helps me unload the boys.
5:45 I start trying to cook dinner while Justin entertains Cass and Cole watches Super Why?
6:00 Justin turns the news on, despite Cole’s whining that he wants to watch more Super Why?
6:30 Hopefully dinner is done and we are watching Wheel of Fortune. Cole loves Wheel of Fortune.
7:00 Family time, bath time, try to keep Cass happy time, try not worry about how dirty my house is time.
8:30 Cole’s bed time
8:31 Go pick up the racecar Cole dropped
8:35 Go pick up the racecar Cole dropped
9:00 Clean the kitchen, wash nipples, get bottles ready for the next day, maybe put some clothes in the dryer or wash a load?? Whatever I can get done…while Justin is occupying or feeding Cass…or vice versa. Sometimes he’s washing and I’m occupying.
9:45 Hopefully taking a shower
10:00 HOPEFULLY laying Cass down and going to bed.
10:10 Cass wakes back up. Pat his butt.
10:13 Cass wakes back up. Justin pats his butt.
Continue as needed until he gives in and sleeps.
3:00 Cass wakes up for no apparent reason. Maybe he’s coughing. Maybe he’s trying to drive me insane. Pat his butt.
3:05 Cass is screaming. Pick him up and trying to soothe him back to sleep without having to feed him.
3:07 Still trying
3:10 Go make a bottle, but only 4 oz because maybe that’s all he needs.
3:35 He finishes 4 oz and wants 2 more.
3:50 He is asleep in the chair, and so am I.
4:00 Put him back in his bed.
4:01 He’s crying. Pat his butt. Get back in bed.
4:05 He’s crying. Pick him up and get him bed with him on my chest.
4:06 He’s fast asleep.
4:06:30 I am too.
5:00 Cole wakes up crying for no apparent reason. Justin goes to check on him. Covers him back up. He’s fine.
6:00 Alarm goes off and REPEAT REPEAT REPEAT!!!
