What is your morning routine?

[glw]

My alarm goes off at 8:00. I feed the cat and make coffee, then start working in my home office by 8:30. If I have a morning meeting, I'll shower and get ready right away, otherwise I do that on my "lunch break".

[simpsongal]

Our mornings are pretty easy, thank goodness for my remote work.

We all wake up between 7 and 7:15am. DH leaves for work around 8 (Mon/Fri he works from home). Kids catch the bus at 8:40am, so they need to dress, eat, gets snacks, and practice piano before the bus comes.

I sign onto work around 8am and usually sip coffee and nag my kids to get their stuff done until they leave.

[redpenmama]

We are not morning people, so we're pretty much up and out the door in 30 minutes or less. I WFH, so I don't have to worry about getting myself ready before sending the kids off to school.

I get up at 6:15 and get my middle schooler fed, packed, and to 7 am dance practice most days (on days she starts school at 9, she rides the bus). My two elementary schoolers get up at 6:45, get themselves dressed/teeth brushed and then they eat breakfast while I pack backpacks, fill water bottles, etc. I always pack lunches the night before. They're out the door by 7:20 (H drops them off on his way to work). We are fortunate that we are a 2-minute drive from both schools, so we have basically no commute.

I start work when they leave until about 9-9:30 and then workout/walk and shower and then am back to work for the remainder of the day.

[campermom]

I either get up at 5 and walk or run, or I sleep in till 6.

6:00 Wake up little one first, get his breakfast ready while he gets dressed and brushes teeth. Wake up older DS and DD. They get themselves ready and pack their lunches. I can get ready in like 20 minutes if I’m not showering, or woke up early enough to shower if I worked out.

Everything that can be prepped at night is: my lunch and little DS’s lunch, coffe cup is out and maker is on a timer, app water bottles are out ready to be filled. Mine and little DS’s clothes are laid out.

Leave at 6:35 for daycare drop off and get to work/school by 7.

It’s an early day, but right now it’s 3:55pm and I’ve already been to target, the grocery store, and ate a bag of popcorn on my couch while I wait for pickup.

I would not categorize myself as a morning person, but a person who lives to get off work early and pushes through the morning to get to that.

[soccermama]

Damn. So many of you really, really have your life together.

I'll be over there with cville, and circa1978,, tyvm.

[waverly]

I had your routine for 2 years and basically slept through most of DS's getting ready time, then got him on the bus (middle school) then spent the next hour trying to get my elementary school child and myself ready. It really was not ideal.

Now they are both in middle school, so I still sleep in until about 6:30. They get up around between 6 and 6:30 whenever they set their alarm for. Then I sort of lounge around while they get ready, do a few things. They are on the bus at 7:05, so then I get ready until 8 when I leave for work.

Sometimes I work out at 6:30, but most of the time I wait until they are on the bus to work out.  I am not doing cardio that much, so I don't get that sweaty, so I don't always need to shower in the morning. 

[gerberdaisy]

I wake up at 5:40, go to the gym from 6-7, then log into work. Kids wake up at 7:45, get themselves ready for the most part, then I help and get DD out the door at 8:25 and walk DS to school at 8:50. I don't usually shower until after they are at school or lunch time unless I have something going on.

[sju]

Oh I don’t miss the 4.5 hr+ morning ordeal when my oldest was already in HS, the youngest in middle school, I had my in-office day, and H was on travel.  H normally prepares the lunches which helps a lot as I am slow at getting ready.

4:45am wake and wash, make up, casual clothes, start coffee
5:30 wake oldest, prepare his breakfast and lunch
6:45 HS drop off
7:15 return home and fight with youngest for way too long to get her out bed (still do).  Finish preparing lunches, and breakfast for youngest. Finish getting ready for the office.
8:45 middle school drop off 
9:30am Arrive in the office. Exhausted. My normal start time has always been 730am.

Now that both kids are in HS, I am up at 530, do one drop off, and can normally be at my desk by 730.

[circa1978]

Sept 3, 2024 15:10:40 GMT -5 soccermama said:

Damn. So many of you really, really have your life together.

I'll be over there with cville , and circa1978 ,, tyvm.

I would argue that we have our lives most together, lol. Child and dogs care for themselves, I sleep more. 🤷‍♀️ 

[sadie]

540 Up. Shower.
6 wake kids up/walk dogs
615 wake kids up again, feed dogs, get coffee/breakfast/pack lunch
Tool around/make sure kids are ready for school (they mostly do this without much prodding)
705 kid 1 on bus
715 kid 2 on bus
If it's an office day, then I leave for work. If it's a WFH day, I slowly enjoy my coffee or walk a few miles with a friend before starting work. I usually start work around 745 (office) or 830 (home).

[Velar Fricative]

glitzy07, dealing with the same thing starting Thursday when I’ll have a new middle schooler plus my continuing elementary schooler.

I’m already solo in the mornings. DH just got a new position with a longer commute, so even though I was solo before too, it will start even earlier and so he can’t help with the older one either despite her earlier wakeup time too.

I actually have a head start because I have been waking up at 5:00 am every day for well over a year to work out. But, with DD1 now having to wake up at 6:00, I’d like to be fully ready myself before she gets up. I may set my alarm for 4:30 starting on Thursday, sigh. Already drink a whole pot of coffee lol once I’m ready lol. Other than my earlier wakeup, things will generally be the same as before, but with DD1 having to get ready quicker and walk herself to the bus stop. Then it’ll be me and DD2 with the usual routine. We are out the door by 7:30, when I drop her off at her school’s morning care and I board the bus to work from there.

Key is to get as much ready as possible the night before. No big secret otherwise, just have to get everything we can done the night before.

[RoxMonster]

No kids here. This is my typical routine 4/5 weekdays (slightly different the one day I go into office).

If I’m walking or working out, I’ll get up at 5:30. In summer months, H and I do a walk in the neighborhood. In winter, I do a YouTube video workout.

Around 7, hop in the shower and do my makeup after. While I’m doing this, H feeds the dog, takes her outside, does her meds.

Have breakfast around 7:30 usually watching something on Netflix or watching local news or occasionally while reading.

8:00 head upstairs to throw on a work-appropriate top and log into work.

[dontlook]

I was going to say I would exercise during that time.

6:00 wake up
6:10 wake up DD for middle school
6:30-7:00 both boys are up
6:30-7:30 prep, coffee, breakfast for kids
7:30-8:15 workout while the boys get dressed, watch tv
8:15 DS1 leaves
8:15-9:00 I get showered and dressed
9:00 take DS2 to school

[Jalapeñomel]

Get up at 5:50 am, shower, leave by 6:20 am. DH does all the morning stuff.

I hate mornings.

[cville]

Sept 3, 2024 15:10:40 GMT -5 soccermama said:

Damn. So many of you really, really have your life together.

I'll be over there with cville, and circa1978,, tyvm.

I bet answering emails in bed gives people the illusion I have my shit together. Like "oh, yes, 6:59am I was up and at 'em." But really, lolno.

[laurack]

Get up at 7, shower and dress, wake the kids at 715 feed everyone breakfast, they get dressed and brush teeth- kids must be out the door by 8 to make it to the bus stop by 810.

If I am wfh I can hit snooze once and get up at 7.09 as I don’t need to shower and dress for the office.

[fivechickens]

I get up anywhere from 5-6am. I like to sleep until 6 but if I wake up at 5 and I am wide awake I will just get up. I take care of one of our dogs who has so much energy in the morning that I spend most of my time rolling my eyes or glaring at her behind her back.

I get my kids up at 6. D1 & D2 (they help with the other dog) can get themselves ready but D3 needs help so I am focused on her.

Since we have free lunches I don't have to help D3 make her lunch most of the time. D1 & D2 make their own.

They are on the bus by 7:30. I watch TV and enjoy some coffee until I have to leave for work at 9:45.

I wouldn’t say I am a morning person but I am not super cranky either, however, I can get easily irritated (which is really no different from the rest of the day) especially if our one dog is being extra in the morning.

[sadlebred]

I'm single so no help. When I was working.

6:45 roll out of bed and get ready.
7:15 be online
8:00 or 9:00 5 minute break to grab breakfast and my hot tea

Now-at least this week.
7:00 Wake up, get ready, eat breakfast, load up ebike
8:30 Drive out a few miles and ride ebike on the rail trail

[heygrey]

H gets up at 5:15 and I doze until 5:45-6 then get up and have a coffee with him, he leaves at 6:20 and I take a shower. DS gets up by 6:40 and showers. Someone feeds the dog. I make breakfast for both of us at 7, we eat together, clean up the kitchen, and finish packing our lunches. Leave the house at 7:50.

On days where H is home, I sleep a little later, H makes breakfast for DS and I. It's always a little chaotic because we are out of routine and I feel like I'm rushing even though having an extra adult should make it easier.

We prep lunches and backpacks as much as possible the night before. I have a uniform of sorts that I wear everyday so getting dressed doesn't take much brain space. DS is in grade 5 and pretty self sufficient.

[macmars45]

Get up between 6am-6:20am, drink coffee & eat breakfast and get dressed by 7am. DS(8) usually comes out of his room right at 7am so I make sure he's dressed and eats breakfast. H gets up at 7:45am and hangs out with DS & helps him brush his teeth while I finish getting our lunches ready, gather all my work stuff & brush my teeth. DS and I are out the door together by 8am/8:05am.

I make our lunches the night before as much as possible. Also, I pick out my clothes the night before as well.

I am not looking forward to middle school... so much rush in the mornings.

[bdubs419]

I sleep till the last possible minute and then jump out of bed with a bit of stress. This is a new schedule for us since my oldest just started middle school so we start earlier.

Alarm 6:45 - Take dog out, feed him and get myself somewhat ready (contacts, makeup etc - I shower at night usually)
7 - get 11 year old up for middle school. My 9 year old still in elementary school is always up way before 7. Which I find annoying, my 11 year old is always dead asleep and my 9 year old who has SO MUCH time in the a.m. is happily up before everyone
7-7:20 - feed kids breakfast and pack lunches
7:20 - middle schooler leaves for bus

Then we have a massive break of like an hour and twenty minutes till my elementary school kids bus comes. I really don’t know what to do with this time. Probably judge worthy but I let my kid watch TV and I go for a long powerwalk to get my steps in before my workday.

8:00 - log onto work (but usually just checking emails) l work remote
8:40 - elementary school bus comes
8:45ish - start work

[lostrn]

I get up at 5:55, attempt to wake up DS (16). I fall back asleep on the couch most days until 6:12. Double check DS got up. Make him and I each an iced coffee in a travel mug, prepare his "lunch" (he won't eat a real meal, so it's a couple protein bars, some packages of nuts, some dried fruit), prepare water bottles and set out some cereal. Sometimes I have to go wake him up a few more times during all of that. I hit the shower at about 6:30. We try to walk out the door 6:50-6:55. Then it's a 30 minute drive to his school. Get him there, than 40-50 minute drive home for me. Stupid traffic. Work starts at 8:30. I usually eat breakfast while I work.

[penguingrrl]

I am not a morning person, nor are any of my kids. I hate that schools are structured in the assumption of early risers (our HS starts at 7:30, elementary and middle at 8:05, both of which are too fucking early).

I set my alarm for 6:30 and usually hit snooze a few times
Then I pull myself out of bed and get my coffee. Then while I drink coffee and wake up I make lunches for my younger two.

My oldest is starting senior year and has their morning routine down to 4 minutes, as did I at that age. They and H leave at 7:15 to drop them off at school and H continues on to work from there.

I work on waking my middle kid up (15, starting sophomore year tomorrow, but autistic and not self sufficient) before I go down to get coffee, she needs a ton of hand holding in the morning, so in between making lunches I go help her pick clothes and make sure she’s feeling okay. She has to leave at 7:55 and I have to drive her half an hour away to her therapeutic school. I generally drink my second cup of coffee on that drive then go to the gym right from drop off.

My youngest (starting 6th) gets himself up at 7 and out the door at 8:00. Students ant his school aren’t allowed in the building until the bell rings at 8:05 and he doesn’t like waiting outside for school to start. Luckily his school is directly across the street from our house, in bad weather he actually sits in our foyer until he hears the first bell and is still on time to home room when the late bell rings 4 minutes later.

[livinitup]

Lately, I’ve been in the routine of waking up at my alarm and then questioning my life choices of scrolling through social media for far too long the night before.

[pinkdutchtulips]

J is up at 5:30 and out by 6:15a
I’m up at 6 (when I have to work in the City) or 7 (working from home) get ready, get Ellie out and pottied, and start work by 8:30; I’ll grab coffee and breakfast when I start working
Miss R is up at 10-11a - note we’re working out the school kinks, we moved a week after classes had started

[cricketwife]

We have an early morning but we all leave together, which is helpful.

I’m up by 6. Shower, read news, GBCN 🙃 etc.
Kids up by 6:30. Dress, make lunches, eat (sometimes) , pack bags
7:15- we are all out the door. DS1 is to his bus and DS2 and I are to work/school by 7:30. Early, but a beautifully short commute.

[glitzy07]

Sept 3, 2024 10:38:53 GMT -5 glitzy07 said:

Sept 3, 2024 10:32:50 GMT -5 emilyinchile said:

In your schedule I would probably personally work out from 6:45-7:30, assuming that works with your 8 year old's schedule.

I currently wake up at 6:10 most days so I can work out and shower before L wakes up at 7:20. Then it's getting us both fed and dressed before leaving for daycare at 8:30 and off to work for me. I am the main morning person with L because I usually get him up and take him to school, but H does whatever needs to be done in between those things. Plus he makes the coffee every day, which is an essential job.

I think this is what I'm going to try to do. I have the Peloton app and have been trying to get back into a good routine of doing SOMETHING to move my body anyway. And then it's just done for the day. Maybe I'll try tomorrow!

Update: She did NOT, in fact, work out this morning. lololol I'll try again tomorrow.