To Stay at home moms, can you tell me your daily schedule...?

Question

and what sort of things you do during the day, and the times you do them (play time, supper / lunch / breakfast, chores...ect...) I want to make a better schedule for me and my kids and i am stumped on it....

Answer 1

brekkie

a walk to the park and morning tea under a tree (we have the added advantage of not being too far away from the park)

Bath

then Aaliyah has 30 mins of quiet time where i read books or something along those lines to her

then nap time

then music and just mucking round before and after afternoon tea

tv time then dinner

Answer 2

When I was a stay at home mom my schedule went something like this:

8- 9 am: Breakfast, clean up and my son watched Noggin while I  cleaned the dishes.

9-1pm: Ran errands or did any chores that needed to be done around the house and also went to the park.

1-1:30: Lunch (usually sandwhich and chips with fruit and milk)

1:30 to 3:30pm: Naptime and I do any pick up that needs to be done

3:30-5pm: Usually learning time, reading,or arts and crafts (I got lots of ideas from magazines and online)



5-5:30pm: Clean up

5:30-6:30pm: Make Dinner which I would let my little one help with if I needed an egg broken or something stirred

6:30-7:30pm: Dinner time and we always talked and said grace at the table as a family

7:30 pm: Daddy gives bath while Mommy cleans the kitchen

8:30 pm: Story time and lights out immediately after

8:30-till: Mommy and Daddy time

My youngest is now 6 and in school so I am back to work, but this was the schedule for both of them when I stayed home. I loved magazines like Womens Day and Family Circle and Redbook for great ideas and fun things to do with them during the day. Good Luck and enjoy this time with your babies- it goes by soo fast.

Answer 3

My son gets up around 9:30 am usually. We take our showers, get dressed and eat breakfast. Around 11:30 am we go to the park for an hour or longer. Then come home to eat lunch. Then we usually take a walk to get the mail. That usually brings us to around 3:00 pm. At that time we usually watch his fave tv show if its on, if not we go in the backyard and play for a half an hour. Then he has a snack. Around 4:30 we go back to the park for an hour and then have dinner. At 6:30 he plays by himself and i start to clean the house. At 7:30 he gets in the bath and by 8:15-8:30 hes in bed.

My son is 22 months and doesnt take a nap.

Answer 4

My daughter just turned 1 and I am due with my second on the 28th so I'm sure my schedule may be changing but for now this is what my daughter and I do every day.

We usually wake up around 7-730am.  We eat our breakfast and than we play and watch PBS till about 11-12. I will than put my daughter down for her nap. While she naps I do house work. She will than wake up around 2pm and we will eat our lunch together. Than it's more play time ( sometimes when she is playing good on her own I will do more housework). Her daddy comes home from work at 6pm and we will all sit down for dinner. By 730-8 it's time to put my daughter down for bed.

I don't know if this helps. it depends on the age of your kids I guess. I'm hoping to keep it the same after our second daughter is born but I have a feeling it may change a little. I have noticed if our schedule changes (such as going to Dr. appointments and visiting friends or grocery shopping)  my daughter gets pretty cranky in the evening. Good luck. Just try to look for something that works best for you and your children.

Answer 5

I am an early bird. I usually wake up when my husband leaves for work. I usually have about an hour to myself to watch Morning news. Then about 8 my daughter wakes up. We eat breakfast and i let her watch an hour of TV. She's Five. Then we go make our beds, brush our teeth, cleanup our rooms. about a 11 I take her to the local park or walk around the neighborhood. (we have snack packed for the park) about 12 we eat lunch. I put her down for a nap and i start my clean up. Sweep, mop, laundry, dishes, dusting. She usually sleeps a good 2 hours. At 2 i let her have about 45 minutes of TV time. Then we read a book and do some sort of craft (Lisa Frank stuff from Walgreens) and eat a snack. About 4 we pick out dinner and set it out. She helps me make a cobbler, brownies, cookies.. dessert for the week. Then about 5 -5:30 she helps me cook.

I can't say this is every day but its the basic schedule i stick to. I try to get outside activity & craft activity included it makes the day fun. By about 5:45 daddy is home and he takes it from there. (Supper then daddy time)