Your Routine

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I'm having a really hard time implementing a routine that works for me AND my son. Do any of you parents have any ideas how to make both of your routines work for you lives?

Really, I want to see some of the adult members' sample routines period. I feel kind of lost as I have no routine of my own.

During the week:

5:45 am - get up and shower
6:15 am - eat breakfast and get dressed
7:00 am - leave for work
8:00 am - arrive at work
8:00-noon - work
noon to 12:30 - eat lunch / call wife
12:30 to 1:00 pm - short walk
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm - work
4:30 pm - leave for home
5:30 pm - arrive home and help wife make supper
6:00 pm- eat supper
6:30 pm- clean up kitchen and make lunch for tomorrow
7:00 pm- longer walk with wife
7:45 pm - chores around house
9:00 pm - relaxation time
10:00 pm - get ready and go to bed

Weekends are far more freestyle. Uusally get up around 8:00 am. Saturdays are more work around house days with Sundays being more time off days / do something I enjoy.

Hope this helps.

6:00-7:00 Tea and internet
7:30-8:00 Make breakfast and kid's lunch
8:00-8:40 Make beds, clean bathroom, get dressed, take vitamins
8:40-9:05 Walk to school and back
9:05-2:30 Internet, errands, shop, visit friends, personal projects
2:30-3:20 Hot bath
3:20-4:00 Start laundry, walk to school and back, change laundry to dryer, get the mail
4:00-4:30 Make kid's snack and supervise homework,
5:00-5:30 Do dishes and clean kitchen, cook dinner, feed cat
5:30-6:00 Dinner with family
6:00 Start kid bath routine
6:30-8:00 TV, fold laundry
8:00 Kid bedtime routine
8:00-9:30 TV, reading, internet
9:30-10:00 Bedtime reading, start dishwasher, go to sleep

Thank you for sharing your routines. I have a question, though. When do you fit in your special interests? I find that if I do not indulge in my special interest (video games in particular) I start getting frequent meltdowns. Do both of you have that issue?

Drink plenty of water, have a good breakfast, teach my kids language arts, break, work on math, break, eat lunch, usually juice something too, work on history and science in the afternoon. Break for free time, have a good dinner. Family time or just free time. Baths. Bed

I have not been able to have any kind of routine for years. My kids ever changing needs come first. My wife's needs, moods and whims, constant as the northern wind, come second. My needs come a distant third, when not trumped by some need of my Alzheimer's/cornucopia-o-neuropathology mom.

I try to carve out tiny slices of order and predictability as I ride the maelstrom.

It's OK: I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.


I am told I have become more irritable in recent years. I wonder how that could be?!?!?