SAHM schedule

[ggill]

I need help with my schedule! I need one

I use to have one then we got sick, sick and sick so we watched to much TV and got into a rut. I think we do to much free play/TV. I feel like we need routine. My boys are 2 and 3. We would go out side today but DH put out the new swing set (craigs list) and it has exposed rusty nails bc its in the yard but not put together. I work out of the house on Wednesdays and Thursday mornings.

So SAHMs of LOs toddler/PS age what is your schedule like?

Thanks!!!

[RainandRedemption]

If your kids are 2 and 3 I might start the morning with a story ot two together before breakfast.
Then after breakfast and a little free play maybe pull out coloring books or something you can work on together. Maybe a game, shape play, puzzle, mazes for your 3yo, type activity.
Afterwards maybe some time outside; ball, frisbee, bubbles, run around and scream your head off.
Lunch
Quiet time
Acivity together, something like mentioned above; or maybe paint, play dough, etc.
Free play

Work in snacks as needed. But start with a basic idea of when breakfast, lunch and quiet time should be, and one or two activities that you would like to work into the schedule, and go from there!

[H's mom]

I have a 15 month old, so our schedule is pretty simple. Our day is built around meal times and his nap, which are at the same time everyday. Then I add in errands and chores, which he "helps" with, and whatever time is left over is free time. If there's a long stretch of free time I might take him to the park or on a long walk. Otherwise I let him do what he wants around the house. If he's acting cranky from boredom then I'll come up with something for him: sandbox time, coloring, hide and seek, toss the ball, read, sing, turn on music and dance, or sometimes I'll just start playing with one of his toys and he usually joins along.

[FindingMercy]

We aren't real schedulers because we have different stuff going on throughout the day on different days.

I would start with the things that you know are set: meal/snack times, naptimes, etc. Then add in things you would like to be a regular part of your day - cleaning up their rooms/making beds, reading books, a favorite TV show, craft time, independent play time.

[AfWife8405]

Our weekday schedule is basically like this:

6am - I wake up, get dressed, let the dog out and make breakfast.
6:30 - Wake the kids up and get them fed, dressed and their faces washed/teeth brushed.
7:30 - Walk to school with all the kids (DH leaves at 6am) to drop my oldest off for kindergarten
8:00 - Kids play together while I clean up any mess from getting ready for the day, start a load of laundry, etc.
9 - 10:30 - Do an activity with the kids - painting, playdoh, skye with grandparents, practice ABCs & Numbers or if I have a lot of cleaning to do they can watch a movie ( Cars 2 & Beauty and the Beast are favorites)
10:30 - Make lunch while kids clean up any toys that are laying around.
11 - Lunch
11:30 - 12:30 - Quiet Time for the kids (they can nap or look at books) while I do a 30 minute workout and take a shower
1-2 - Walk to the "nice" playground in the same direction of the elementary school and let them run around until its time to pick up their brother.
2:00 - Walk to school to pick up my kindergartener
2:30 - Homework for oldest, coloring for the little ones and a snack.
3 - 4:30 - Let the kids play together now that DS1 is home from school while I tidy up the house before DH comes home. Sometimes we go outside and the kids do chores (ex. pick up leaves) for money while we watch for DH.
4:30 - Make Dinner, kids make sure rooms are picked up
5:00 - Dinner
5:45 - 7 - Family time - play outside, a game on the Wii, hide & seek, etc.
Two days a week DS1 has baseball practice for an hour. One day its at 4:30, the other its at 5:30, so dinner is adjusted around this on those nights.
7:00 - Shower/baths, PJs and a Story
7:30 - Bedtime for the kids
7:30 - DH goes to the gym while I clean up dinner, make lunches for the next day, do the laundry and get the house cleaned up for the night.
8:30 - DH takes a shower while I sit at the door of the bathroom and we talk about things coming up the next day, anything that needs to be taken care of and just catch up from the day.
9-10 - Watch a TV Show we both like
10 - Bedtime.

[mrs_blazen]

We're just getting into a routine after moving, but ours is pretty simple...

Kids wake up at 7 or 7:30. Although I like the idea of waking up and getting ready before them, they're usually my alarm clock. After they wake up, they play while I make breakfast. After breakfast, we get cleaned up and dressed for the day. Then we'll do an activity (play dough, coloring, blocks) until 9:45ish. We walk to the playground everyday and stay until 12. This is set in stone for us. If it rains we go to the indoor play area at the mall. At 12, we walk home. DD usually falls asleep on the way home and then goes into her bed. DS plays and I put on Mickey Mouse while I make lunch. He goes down for a nap from 12:45ish to around 3. When he gets up he has a snack and free play until DH gets home at around 4. Then we usually go back outside until dinner. DH entertains (what I call "crazy play" ) while I make dinner. Bath for both kids is at 7 then stories and bed at 8.

I'm usually pretty flexible with what our play time consists of. I try to do structured activities but a lot of the time it's just free play. You will find us at either the park
or mall everyday from 10-12. It's how I keep my sanity... lol. DS gets to play like crazy and interact with other kids and I usually get in a few minutes of chit chat with adults! Win for both of us! Oh, and you'll also find me cleaning like a crazy woman from 12:45-3, depending on when DD wakes up from her nap.

[jbug_4]

n Kids are 18 (ds) months and 4. I don't wake kiddos up, they wake up on their own.
6:00 ds wakes up- gets milk, diaper change and clothes if we're going somewhere- other wise we hang out in jammies longer.

we try to wait until dd wakes up, around 7, to have breakfast but about half the time ds has breakfast about 6:30.

DD gets up, has breakfast right away. Then we just hang out for a bit.

7:30 I put the gate up so that dd and ds are confined to their rooms (their rooms are across the hall from each other, so I put the gate up in the hall so they can go back an forth to each other's rooms). they play while i shower. I get out pull the gate down. We continue just to play

School days (dd goes to pre-k 3 half days) 8 get everybody dressed after my shower. Then play until time to leave at 8:50. Take dd to school. DS and I run any errands while dd is in school (we just started this because ds just stopped his morning nap). If we don't have errands we come home and have just started "school" which for him is looking at flash cards, learning animal sounds, singing. Pick up dd at 11:30. Come home, cook and eat lunch. After lunch nap for ds and quiet time for dd until 3 (or whenever ds wakes up).

3:00 snack, then play again (inside or out- prefer out if the weather is good)
4:00 DD watches Cat and The Hat while I cook. DS "helps" cook or watches tv.
5:00 dinner. Baths after dinner (every other night). Then play with daddy.
6:45 PJ's and book for ds. Bedtime 7
dd just hangs out with us until 7:30 then pj's and book. She goes to bed 7:45-8:00.
8:00- ???? Mommy and Daddy time!!!

On non-school days we have home school for dd during part of her school time. We have snack at 9:00 then start school. DS usually colors on my lap while we do some writing, cutting, crafts, etc for dd. Then we go outside and play or work in the garden (or they play and I work in the garden) DD will be getting money for helping in the garden this year, so we'll see. if we can't go outside we do inside circle time. I was a preschool teacher before kids, so before dd went to pre-k I did home pre-school with her starting at 2.

[Mac & Cheeses mom]

Hmm let's see.

6am all 4 of us are up and at it. DD2 and I sit and wake up slowlly on the couch with a milk for her and a coffee for me.... normally.

7am DH takes DD1 to middle school. DD2 and I have breakfast.... normally yogurt or something small. DH normally goes to work when he gets back. (He works downstairs from the house.)

730am bath time
8am free play and snack time

830 or 9 morning nap sometimes for DD2 she is 15m so this nap is hit and miss right now. If she takes a nap this is when I get my house cleaning done.

11am lunch

12 errands

230 pick up sissy from school (this verries as sometimes DD2 takes a second nap around 1pm, if this happens my DH picks up DD1 or watches DD2 for me)

3pm free play or structured play DD2 hates structured play

4pm tue-thurs is soccer practice for DD1 and outside play for DD2

5pm dinner if no soccer and 7pm dinner if soccer

Bed for DD2 is between 7 and 8 depending on if there is soccer or not. DD1 bed by 830.

Between 830 and 10 mommy and daddy time.... sometimes wathing tv together and sometimes not.

[Geckmumto3]

I run DC part time out of my house, and from that we have developed a schedule that we follow, sometimes loosely. I am a schedule person by nature, though.

5:45- I am up, might go for a run, been doing a workout DVD recently, start coffee, pull lunches, organize some breakfast things, go to the barn
6:30 - school kids up, they dress themselves and get their breakfast, hair, teeth, done
7:00 - I shower, dress, etc... My youngest usually wakes up in here somewhere and attempts to dress himself
7:30 -School bus
From here until about 9:00-9:30, my youngest and whoever else is here (DC children) freeplay (or nap if they are little ones).
9:30, most days, we do a circle time, followed by artsy learning activities
10:30-Snacktime and outside
We stay outside until about 11:45, when we come in for lunch
Lunch is followed by reading/story time and then quiet time until 3:00
During quiet time, my youngest and I do some preschool activities and might go outside and garden or putter around.
3:30- School Bus arrives
3:45 -Afternoon snack followed by more outside play until dinner.
Dinner is 5:45ish, followed by homework, tubs, reading and bed.

I like to start with the things that cannot be moved, add in eating times, and then alternate a short activity where I am engaged with them with longer times where they play independently. I am all about independent and freeplay/exploration for kids.

[jamilynn84]

I was really good about our schedule before my 3rd trimester started. Now... Their naps and badtimes are all off too.

Our old schedule (kids are 18 months & 3.5)... T/th we have preschool & speech too.

7:00 wake up, cup of milk, 1 educational tv show

7:30 breakfast

8:00 free play while i clean kitchen/do morning chores

9:00 preschool time (busy bags or coliring for toddler; craft, phonics or prewiting, math, etc for preschooler)

10:30 snack

10:45 outside (or run errands if its on the to do list)

11:45 lunch

12:30 quiet alone time (puzzles, books, ipod touch, leappad)

1:15 naps

3:30 snack

3:45 free play

4:45 start cooking dinner... Kids do table activities or wii

6:00 dinner

6:45 bath (on bath days) and/or pajamas

7:30 tv show & snack

8:00 brush teeth off to bed

Apologizing in advance for iPhone typos/autocorrect