Post by justcheckingin73 on Jan 23, 2018 8:39:24 GMT -5
Like you said, the later work time is probably what’s throwing you. I work with our International team so my official hours are 6-3 but realistically, I don’t sit down until 6:30 and many times I work past 3. But, it doesn’t feel late because even if I work to 4 or 5, I still have time to make dinner and get some things done before kid activities start in the evening. I also WFH so I have no commute and I fit in my workouts during my lunchtime.
I have such a hard time waking up in the morning but I love this schedule so much that I won’t go back. I just really look forward to my weekend of sleeping in until 6:30 (eye roll ).
justcheckingin73 - I prefer an early start and free evening time too. This began for me 15 years ago - a senior manager would schedule 6AM meetings. It was the best thing to ever happen to my work life. Eleven years ago I started regularly going into the office at 5:30am so I could avoid a 2-3 hour commute each way. Game changer. Now starting early mean even if I work ten hours a day I am done before I need to think about dinner, can run errands, can easily get kids to activities.
I low level worry how if this ever changes how we would survive. A 9-5 with OT after 5 would kill me. And destroy the kids’ ability to do anything because it’s just me M-F.
Post by covergirl82 on Jan 23, 2018 9:57:15 GMT -5
5:45-ish: wake up and get myself ready 6:30: get kids up, get their breakfast, finish making lunches (DH usually helps with this) 6:50-ish: I leave 7:15-ish: Get to work 4:15-ish: I leave work 4:45-ish: I pick up the kids from after-care at school 4:55: Kids and I get home, I start dinner 5:30: DH gets home, we eat dinner 6:30-ish: Kids' bath time (this time depends on if they have an evening activity) 7:30: Go upstairs - kids brush teeth, read, some iPad time 8:30: lights out (although I'm usually in DD's room until 8:45 reading to her and then I sing to her for a few minutes - she's very high maintenance at bedtime) 9:00: This is my goal to get in bed and have some time to read and/or do online stuff 10:00: Lights out for me
I usually do the dishes, which happens around 6:00. If we don't have anything going on that night, I'll try and go walk on the treadmill for 20 minutes. I take a shower at night, which I try and do before 8:00 so that I have closer to an hour to read/go online. I also start getting lunches ready, which I try and do before 7:30.
I feel like I need to move the kids' "lights out" time to 8:00-8:15, probably somewhat selfishly so I can go to bed sooner.
Grocery shopping (except for maybe stopping for a couple items on my way to pick up the kids) happens on my every-other Friday off or the weekend. Cleaning/chores and laundry are also done on my e/o Friday off or weekends.
traveltheworld I feel like on the west coast everyone gets up really early because a lot of stuff still runs on eastern time. I am definitely a late riser for this area at after 6.
School starting at 8 makes things easier. I can drop at 7:45. Before Care is included if you pay for 5 days of aftercare, but maybe that’s in part because school starts so early, so fewer people need it...
6:00 DH and I get up and get dressed. 7:00 Start waking kids up. DD is dressed and ready by 7:20. 7:15-7:25 Start wondering why we had a second kid and why he isn’t a morning person. 7:30 DS finally dressed and downstairs. And lucky to be alive, lol. 7:30 I am downstairs and likely throwing something in the crockpot and making my smoothie for breakfast. By 7:45 I leave and about 5 minutes later DH leaves to take kids to school. I work until 5:00. Generally I do not take a break at lunch. I use lunch time to mentor employees (while we eat) or meet with consultants who want to see us services (while we eat food they buy me... this is my least favorite part of my job) or network with my peers (over food) or just get extra work done. Point is I multitask while I eat. Get home usually by 5:45. 6:00 Dinner, followed by clean up 7:00 Upstairs for showers, snuggles, and reading time 8:00 Both kids in bed
If I need to, I get out my laptop and work until around 10:00. If I don’t, we watch DVR’d tv or I read or sew.
I’m generally asleep by ten but rarely sleep through the night. So often I wake up between 4-5 in the morning and watch tv, read, or meditate.
6:00 AM get up (get dressed, get kids dressed, feed them breakfast, etc.) 7:00 AM leave for bus stop 7:15 AM bus picks up DS 7:45 AM DD gets dropped off at daycare 8:00 AM get to work
4:30 PM leave work to get DD 4:45 PM pick up DD 5:10 PM pick us DS from aftercare 5:30 PM get home 5:45 PM eat dinner (DH usually finishes up whatever I have put into the crockpot) 6:15 PM dinner is finished 6:30 PM cleaning up dinner, packing lunches, etc. Kids watch some TV while DH and I do chores, help with homework, etc. 7:30 PM Get kids ready for bed
DD is hating sleep, she didn't go to sleep until 10pm last night (she is 3 and still naps at daycare). So I typically work upstairs in our bed, answering emails and whatnot in between putting her back into her bed.
5 - wake up start getting ready for work 5:30 - wake up kids, get little one ready while I am still getting ready 6:15 - daycare drop off 6:30 - drop off older daughter at school if she doesn't take the bus 7 - start work 4:30 - off work 5:00 - pick up little kid 5:30-6:30 gym 7 - home, homework & dinner 8:30 - little one to bed 8:45-10 or so - me time which really means dinner and an hour of TV and sometimes arguing with the teenager because that's life.
If H is home my bedtime is earlier since he has to be in bed really early.
justcheckingin73 - I prefer an early start and free evening time too. This began for me 15 years ago - a senior manager would schedule 6AM meetings. It was the best thing to ever happen to my work life. Eleven years ago I started regularly going into the office at 5:30am so I could avoid a 2-3 hour commute each way. Game changer. Now starting early mean even if I work ten hours a day I am done before I need to think about dinner, can run errands, can easily get kids to activities.
I low level worry how if this ever changes how we would survive. A 9-5 with OT after 5 would kill me. And destroy the kids’ ability to do anything because it’s just me M-F.
It’s funny because I do work more hours than when I worked an 8-4 schedule which is good and bad but it doesn’t feel like I’m working longer. Previously 7 or even 8 am meetings would have annoyed me but now I have a 6 am standing meeting every Friday and it doesn’t phase me.
And I completely understand the low level worry - as I was writing that post out, I started to get anxious if it ever went away. But it’s also why I get called on quite a bit by other parents to do pick ups for their kids because they have that 8-4/9-5 schedule. Many can’t reciprocate so it can be a double edged sword in that sense.
traveltheworld I feel like on the west coast everyone gets up really early because a lot of stuff still runs on eastern time. I am definitely a late riser for this area at after 6.
School starting at 8 makes things easier. I can drop at 7:45. Before Care is included if you pay for 5 days of aftercare, but maybe that’s in part because school starts so early, so fewer people need it...
Ironically I'm on the west coast. I used to be in the office by 7:30, but in my new job, my boss doesn't get in till about 9ish and he is pretty big on "face time", so even if I get in early I'd still feel obligated to stay till 5, so there's no point. I work with our European teams a lot, so on days where I have calls with them, I just work from home the rest of the day - those are my favourite days. My ideal work situation would be WFH 2 days a week.
I end up staying up too late almost every night. Mostly because DH stays up.
Post by librarychica on Jan 23, 2018 11:47:04 GMT -5
I’m part time now so idk if it helps.
Up at 5:15 if an exercise day, 6:20 if not. 7am leave house for work Kids wake up between 6 and 7, if they’re up I help them with breakfast and wake H up at 6:45 or so if he hasn’t woken already 8:15 H drops off kids and goes to work 3:45 I pick up kids (when I was full time this was 5:30/6) 4-7 I am on kid duty 5:30 dinner 6ish baths 7 DD1 Bed 8 DD2 Bed 8:15-10 lunches (when full time I usually cooked or prepped dinner at this point but now I don’t often), any remaining chores, sometimes work I need to finish, sometimes I announce that I’m blowing off chores to face mask/read/do yoga/imitate a potato on the couch 10 or 10:30 bed
Post by sandandsea on Jan 23, 2018 12:34:04 GMT -5
I set my alarm for 6:30 and snooze until I have to get up at 7 to shower and rush out the door by 7:20. Managing to help dh with the boys between 6:30 and 7 as needed while laying in bed. I feed Ds2 a breakfast pouch while snuggling and help wake up ds1 by letting him watch the iPad while we snuggle and put his clothes on until 7. Commute from 7:20-8 Work 8-5 Commute/Pick up boys from their respective places and am home by 6. Go through backpack, set up homework/free play while I cook dinner. Eat by 6:45/7 Clean up, boys bath and Ds2 in bed at 8 Ds1 bedtime routine 8:15(teeth potty story pray etc) Hopefully he’s asleep by 9-9:30. Finish cleaning up In bed by 10 on a good day and 11 on a rougher day
Except on mondays when we have swim and the evening goes school-swim-Home around 8-bed And sports/scouts nights where it is school-scouts until 7:30- dinner-Home-bed.
So half the week is nice and the other half is chaotic.
I just added laundry for my house cleaner and am hoping that helps.