Do you have a daily routine? If not I suggest following one. Once your body gets used to the routine, and not feeling like its rushing around to do everything it will make your journey to love yourself more that much better. I know when having a family following a routine can be hard sometimes, but you can do this. Even better I will be here to help you along the way if you need it.
My life from the outside can seem like chaos. I have 4 kids+1 (gotta love our husbands 🙂 ). Ages from 11 to 2, so the mind can only imagine what my daily life looks like. In order to keep everything from being a jungle there has to be some kind of routine. When making a routine you don’t want to put so much thought into that you stress yourself out. You just want to be able to sit down and set something up that will be easy for you and your family to be able to follow. Now there will be day or nights that the routine may be broken or switched up some and that is okay. Just remember that it is important to keep the littles on it consistently so that their little brains don’t forget.
—> I am going to share our routine with you so that you can see kind of an idea of our routine.
- 6:00am- This is when I start my morning
- 6:30am- I wake Nevaeh (my 11 year old up)
- 7:00am- My husband and Skye (my 7 year old) start to get up
- 7:15am- Nevaeh goes to the bus stop
- 7:15-8:00am- My younger two Jasmine and Harley (3 and 2 year old) wake up
- 7:50am- Ryan (my husband) leaves for work
- 8:15am- We leave to take Skye to School
- 8:50am- We get back home
- 9:00 am- Jasmine and Harley eat breakfast (more like they fight and throw the breakfast all over my kitchen but hey they are 15 months apart so I guess it could be worse.)
- 9:30am-11:25am- In between these the times they either watch a cartoon or destroy their room, or even both sometimes. Just depends on their mood of the day.
- 11:25am- I begin getting them ready for their nap. Which can be any where from an hour long to longer.
- 12:00pm- I clock into work (I work from home) It is also between this time that Ryan comes home for lunch some days he heads back around 1pm.
- 2:50pm- Nevaeh gets home from school
- 3:20pm- I take my first 30 minute break and this is when I go pick up Skye from school.
- 3:50pm-6pm- I clock back in
- 4pm- Nevaeh works on homework if she has any while the younger three play.
- 4:30pm- Nevaeh and Skye will start picking up their chores.
- 5:00pm- Ryan gets home from work (sometimes a little after he gets off at this time)
- 5:30pm- on certain days Ryan is getting one of the two older two ready for scouts on other days he is helping with homework and starting supper.
- 6:00pm- I take my last 30min break- During this break Ryan and I spend a few minutes talking about how his work day was.
- 6:30-9pm- I clock back in.
- 6:30pm- the younger two start playing with Ryan.
- 7:00pm- Ryan starts giving the younger two baths.
- 7:30pm- its calm down time, and shower time for Skye then Nevaeh
- 8:00pm- its time for bed for The kids
- 9pm- I get off work
- 10pm-12am: in-between these times I am either talking with Ryan or I am reading a book or I call it a early night.
This is a very detailed of our daily routine, but since following this is makes things so much easier. It helps me feel so much more at peace. I don’t stress as much I would find myself doing before. I truly believe that following a routine will help you and your family in so many ways! I look forward to hearing from you guys and seeing what your guys daily schedules are. As always if you need help or just need to talk I am here just reach out and I will get back to you! Thank you beautiful Souls for all your love and support! Have a good FRIDAY! — Alyssa Mills
