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IF you SAH, or at least in the AM...
What time do you get up? Before or with your kids. If before, how much?
Our house is roomy, but compact if that makes sense! The bedrooms for the kids are directly off the main living area, so they wake if there is noise from the shower ect.
I have been getting up with them but my day seems to have a rough start then. I feel like we start and remain behind. However, I work 2nd shift and many nights (like last) I don't get home until 1130, and am in bed by 1230. Nolan has been getting up by 6-6:30, so i feel like I can not get up much before him (I NEED my 6-8!!)
Any suggestions on getting my morning a little more smooth?
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Re: IF you SAH, or at least in the AM...
I wake up at 7am no matter what because that is what time DH comes stomping in the bedroom with his shoes on to kiss me good bye. Love good-bye kisses, just wish he would do it without his shoes on
Dillon usually wakes up shortly after that or at 7:30 (most days)
ETA I work nights too and am home at 1am. On the nights I work, mornings are rough no matter what. I like having a cup of coffee before the day begins. Usually I sit DS in front of the TV to watch Sesame St and drink his milk so I can down at least a few sips of coffee.
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I usually wake up ~10 minutes before L gets up around 7:15/7:30 (C sleeps later so I'm able to get some one-on-one time with my little girl before the hurricane that is my big girl makes her entrance). It's funny though b/c I was just thinking that I might need to try and get up ~30 minutes before L gets up so I can have some 'me' time and get myself ready since things gets so hectic once everyone is up and our day / activities start....even when L goes down for a nap, C is up so I don't have down time until they both go down at night. I'll need to set my alarm in order to make that happen.
Do your kids sleep with a noise machine? If not, that might help if you decided to shower before they were up.
Yea we have noise machines in their rooms, but It is more Nolan. He gets up early, and something within moves him to be a rooster and wake the rest of the house....
they are already back down to nap....
Anna is my alarm clock... I never get out of bed before she does! and she is usually up at 6:30ish. But most days, we don't have anywhere to be until after her morning nap (I know, the luxury of one child on a two nap schedule...). so we both stay in our PJs until she goes down at 9am. Then I hop in the shower and get myself ready.
I am keenly aware that this plan may not work for very much longer... lol!
Because we're fancy like that.
7:30-ish. DD gets up at 9 (yes, I am lucky)
Can you shower when you get home instead of in the morning?
Closing the door to DD's room has helped with interruptions. She sleeps through DH's shower every morning now
I wake up at 7:40 normally, get up, get my coke zero, get back in bed with facebook/twitter/thebump for about 20 minutes.
The kids get up at 8 and talk in their beds for about 15 minutes, then I go get them.
So we are all up and back in my room with breakfast (bottles for babies) by 8:30.
my monkeys both wake up around 6:30 (on a good day 6:45/7). I'm a night owl by nature, so getting up before them is not happening.
I do sometimes feel like a hot mess until their morning nap. I keep them up until 9 a.m. and then they both go down for naps. I use this time to drink my coffee that has been staring at me since 7:30, eat breakfast, go online (fb/bump/etc.) and do laundry/clean.
After nap #1 they eat solids and take baths which is messy. Their next nap is at/around 1 p.m. and that's when I usually shower and get dressed. Between cleaning from their breakfast and regular house chores. I usually only have enough time to wash myself, throw on clothes and put my hair up wet.
So, yeah, I'm usually a hot mess until 1 p.m. and then I'm just a mess without the hot part
I dream of a day where my kids will sleep in, but lately I'm just thankful that they hold their own bottles and I can fold laundry while they eat. That means I have about 40 extra free minutes a day if I play my cards right 
Now that my older 2 are back in school, I get up at 6:45 (before them) and grab a quick shower, get them up at 7:00, help get ready, make breakfast, etc. Henry (the youngest) wakes up anywhere between 7:30-9:00.
But, when S & J aren't in school, I get up with Henry unless we have morning plans - then I have to get up before him to shower and stuff.
Very rarely do i get up before DS unless we have to be somewhere early and I have to get myself and things ready quicker. DS wakes up around 7am on average...sometimes earlier, sometimes later.
If I dont have atleast 1.5 hours to get myself and DS ready and fed etc then I feel rushed. Can you do anythign the night before?
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On days I am home (work PT) and Nicholas doesn't have MDO, I wake up when they do. with Ava still waking up for the before sunrise feeding (4am), I want all the sleep I can get. I love mornings that go like this: Ava wakes up around 7am for the day (wish it would be 8, but beggars can't be choosers) most of the time (hope that didn't just jinx me). I bring her back into bed with me (not to sleep, just to lay there and hang out). Nicholas wakes up anywhere between 7-8 (I prefer 8). Then I bring him into my bed too to lay and just ease into the morning. He's a crab if I change his diaper right away and bring him down for breakfast- he's clearly not a morning person (gets that from me). So we hang around upstairs til about 9ish. I'll get his clothes out for the day, make the bed, and bring them downstairs. He gets bkfst, She most likely will get her morning nap around that time. Then I clean up the kitchen and do other chores. Then we head back up and get dressed for the day (I take a shower) and just hang out/play and if I have to do laundry, clean bathrooms I'll do that too. We have a very low-key morning
On days Nicholas has school, I make sure everything is done the night before (lunch made for him, backpack stocked with diapers/wipes, clothes laid out). Bring him downstairs upon waking up and let him play while I figure out what to give him for bkfst. If he is a crab and won't eat, I just put some Cheerios in a Snacktrap and he eats those on the way. I try to get him to eat something though (something easy- like yogurt or cottage cheese) He eats and then I dress him and we head out to school (oh I get dressed too of course). I come home and shower and hang out with Ava til it's time to pick him up. School mornings are a little more hectic, but not much.
Jealous! I miss those 9am wake up calls-Nicholas used to do. *sigh* maybe someday again for both kids.
Breakfast in Bed every morning for Paige and the boys? How nice.
My Babies get up at around 7:00 and they're my alarm clock. They play in their cribs for a little bit while I pump. DH gets them dressed and feeds them their first bottle of the day. After that, they play for awhile on the floor while I eat breakfast and then I take them for a walk (in the warmer months, at least - not sure what we'll do when winter is here). We get home from the walk and they eat solids and have another bottle. I change their diapers and they play for a bit before going down for their first nap.
I work overnights, so on the mornings that I am home, I sleep until they will let me - i try to squeeze every second of sleep in that I can, so that I won't be a disaster at work that night!
They usually wake up between 7-7:30am (if they wake up earlier, they talk in their cribs until that time before I get them up). I get them both changed and dressed, then bring them down for breakfast.
DD just stopped taking her am nap, but what used to happen was that we would play in the playroom until her nap time (9ish), then DS would go in the pnp in the living room watching Sesame Street, DD would go to her crib for her nap, and I would shower quickly, then get their snacks prepped to go out.
Now, either we still play in the playroom for a while and they both go in a pnp to watch Sesame while I shower, or we skip the playroom and they watch Sesame while I shower. If we skip the am play time, we can be out of the house by 9-9:30. If not, we can leave by 10.
Good luck!