How do you get 2 ready in the morning and yourself???

Mini-ebeth

I had a mini-freak out the other morning when we were running late.  How am I going to do this with 2 kids dependent on me to get them ready and still get ready myself?

I am already up at 5 and my husband leaves at 5:30 so I am on my own to get everyone ready! 

akgram

I would love to tell you it gets easier as they get older but honestly it's getting more time consuming and longer.  Today it took me 2hr15min to get out the door.  My girls both are into picking out their clothes, hair bows, socks, underware, etc.....you get the picture so it takes longer than it did when I was able to choose everything.  YOu'll get a routine down and hopefully it will go smooth. 

JARbaby

We choose complete outfits the night before. I get up and get myself 100% ready before they get up. Get them up and dressed, we all go eat breakfast. We can get out the door in an hour.

howleyshell

JARbaby:

I get up and get myself 100% ready before they get up. 

This.

And in the beginning I'd even try to get breakfast on the table before I got them up too.

Lunches get made and packed the night before. 

Mr.&MrsS

howleyshell:

JARbaby:

I get up and get myself 100% ready before they get up. 

This.

And in the beginning I'd even try to get breakfast on the table before I got them up too.

Lunches get made and packed the night before. 

Same here. I do as much the night before as possible. I pick out thier clothes, my clothes, make lunches, etc. Then I wake up at 4:45am (yuck!) and shower and get ready before they are up. Then when they get up I feed them and get them ready. It makes for long days, but it is the only way I can make it work right now.

scherza

I pack everything the night before: diaper bags loaded (we use cloth diapers so I carry them back and forth every day), lunches made and packed in lunchboxes in the fridge, bottles made and packed in the bottle carrier in the fridge, and all bags by the door. 

DH or I lay out the kids' outfits for the next day in our room and hang out our own clothes.

In the morning, we both get up at 5:30.  Sometimes the baby wakes up around that time and wants to eat; if he does, one of us hops in the shower while the other feeds him and rocks him back down.  If not, we'll hop in the shower together (and put the monitors on the bathroom counter), get dressed, then split up and get the kids both dressed (if they're both awake by that point) or split up and one of us will dress and feed the baby while the other goes and walks the dog.  We get everyone downstairs and fed and out the door by 6:55-7:00 most mornings.

I hate to say it, but really, the only way to do it is to be up and dressed yourself before they get up and minimize what you have to do in the morning.

I know your DH leaves at 5:30, but what time do the kids get up and what time do you have to be out the door?  It could be pretty do-able; I know that mine rarely wake up at the same time and we usually get enough time in the mornings to have one changed and dressed before the other one gets up.

Trissie18

We currently have a routine that will get us out the door in 1 hour or less.  I make sure everything is together the night before.  In the morning I get up, shower, dress and then go downstairs to let the dog out, start the car, and put in the car anything that is going with us.  I grab the infant carrier, and DS#1's shoes, coat, and hat.  I go upstairs and get DS#2 dressed and put him in his carrier (he has usually eaten about 1 hour before I get up so he isn't hungry when I wake him up) and then I get DS#1 dressed and put on his outside stuff.  Then we go down the stairs and out the door.  This keeps me from wrestling with each child twice and keeps DS#1 from having complete melt downs.  He eats breakfast as soon as we get to daycare.

jillybean222

It still takes us hours to get out of the house.  Not sure what I am doing wrong!