Getting ready in the morning

potbellypig

How many hours before you leave for work in the morning do you wake up?

I've been getting up two hours before I leave (so 6:00 am) to make things less rushed (I need to shower in the AM because I have short hair), but DD has started to wake up earlier too (also at 6:00 or shortely after), so I don't have any time to work out or do morning devotions. DH gets up around 6:45.

I'm starting to wonder if I need to start getting up at 5:00-5:30 to have some time to myself before she gets up...

Netty_3

I wake up at 4am, leave for work around 6:15am. I workout until 5-5:15, then get ready, until 6am, then get LO ready while DH gets lunches and breakfast ready.

ilanat

I just integrate LO into my morning routine.  I talk him through what I'm doing.  For example, when I make pancakes for us, I tell him what I'm mixing together and then I show him the pan (from far away) and then we eat breakfast together.  I put him in his little chair when I wash my face and he thinks it is the most hilarious entertainment in the world.  I also play Sesame Street radio all throughout so we sing songs together and do "clappy clappy."  The mornings are some of my best moments with him. 

QueSrah

I get up about an hour and a half before I need to leave, so that there's time for me to shower and have a quiet breakfast alone (a whopping 15 minutes tops) before getting dressed and marshaling DD through getting herself dressed and eating breakfast.  I can't imagine willingly waking up at 5 am, which is probably why I never find time to exercise

jlaOK

I wake up 1.5 hrs before I leave.  DH gets DS dressed and fed in the morning before he leaves and I take care of teeth and potty before we leave.  If I got DS completely ready myself, I would need 1.75 hrs or so.

Cheerio B

I get up an hour and a half before I leave. The only way that works is for me to shower at night, pack my lunch and the kid's school bags, pick out every one's clothes etc. And then DH helps me get them dressed. I should get up earlier but the alarm goes off at 5:15 as is and that's awful enough.

LoCarb

45 min. 25 min for me to get ready and 20  min to get two kids ready.

I shower and pick clothes out the night before. 

potbellypig

DD actually slept until 7:00 this morning, so I was able to wake up at 6:00 AND STILL workout and get to work on time.

Sigh...if only she would do that every day!

2chatter

Up until this year, I got up at 7:00 and hit the door at 7:30.  Somehow, I now get up at 6:00, get the baby up at 6:15 and the girls up at 6:30.  One more child decreased my sleep by an hour.

I shower at night.

iluvmylab

DH leaves for work at 5:45am and I get up about that time.  I do all the baby stuff myself in the morning.  I need to leave by 6:45 on the days that I practice my soccer team and by 7:10 if we aren't practicing.  It sucks to do everything myself.  I have no time to myself.