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Typical evening in your house?
What does a typical evening in your house look like? Once I pick the kids up, make dinner, get them to eat, fitting in time to work on "homework" with the older two (practice writing or sight words) but needing to get the baby bathed and ready for bed which is moving up to 7 now that she is really just napping once, I feel I lost the entire night and we are rushing to get showers and in bed. I do have help from DH with the getting ready for bed but he gets home almost when it's time for the baby to go to bed so I don't have help with all the stuff before. Just wondering if you have a typical schedule you care to share.
Mommy to DS1 ~10.11.05~ DD1 ~07.22.07~ DD2 ~09.10.10~
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Re: Typical evening in your house?
Depending on whether I have a faculty meeting or other after school obligation, I get home either at around 4:30 or around 6. Both my kids are school aged, so I'm not dealing with the pressure of a baby's bedtime. Also, we watch no TV in the evenings. Still, our evenings can feel rushed.
Typical evening starts at 4:30ish:
Kids work on homework with me overseeing while DH rides his bike.
I start on dinner sometime in the 5 pm hour. DH gets home and takes a shower & does chores.
DS wraps up homework and can help with dinner, play on his own, or read.
DD wraps up homework pretty close to dinner and they can play or help me.
We eat sometime in the 6 pm hour, wrapping up dinner and cleanup of kitchen by 7:30.
I read out loud to kids if there's time, or we go for a walk, or do something as a family, possibly run errands if needed.
At 8 pm, kids get ready for bed. They're usually in bed by 8:20. They are both allowed to read: DS until 8:30, DD until 9:15.
DH and I hang out, I grade papers, or play video games while DH does the crossword puzzle. We're usually asleep on the couch or in bed by 10. At 5:30 we get up and do it all over again the next day!
Tues, Weds, & Thurs. are busy busy. The girls have dance at 6 and L has football at 530. So they come home, do hw and I make dinner (usually finish what I put in the crockpot) eat at 5 and get ready for dance/football. Home around 730 and straight to bath/bed. Weds are the same but L doesn't have football. Luckily dh takes him on Tuesday's. Thursdays l has football at 530 to 7 and then I have Choir practice at church from 7-8. Sorry I'm no help. Our schedule is nuts!!
Landon * Kaydance * Kennedy
5/13/05 ******5/24/06
* Baby is due July 24 2012 *
Weeknights are pretty packed.
We have an hour to chill when we first get home. Oldest DD likes to get her homework and practicing done right away while the younger two like to play.
Then it is dinner, homework, pack lunches and backpacks, reading time, and bedtime.
We do showers in the morning.
Week nights are pretty routine at our house. DH isnt working so he usually has everything taken care of when i get home from work.
DH picks DD up at school around 2pm then it's home for homework (first) then playtime.
Before i get home DH has given DD a bath and has her ready for bed.
Dinner isnt usually made because he wants to know what im feeling like having so we figure that out and get it done. Then we eat.
After some family time, usually a board game, it's bed time for DD.
We brush her teeth, get her clothes out for school the next day, she picks out her snacks for her lunch and we read a story then it's lights out!
If my oldest has track, I pick him up from school at 5 (LO and I eat dinner before we pick him up), he eats a snack and we're out the door again at 5:45 for football. We get home around 7:45ish. He eats dinner and does homework till 9:30 (later if he isn't done yet) and then in bed. While he does homework, I bathe LO and put him to bed. I sit with older one and see how homework is going and ask how his day was.
If there is no track, he comes home on the bus and we all eat dinner then together and then leave for football. Monday nights is just track so that frees up some of the night for us.
When I was working, 90% of the meals was from the crockpot. It made the night so much easier that I didn't have to cook and it was easy clean-up - especially with the liners.
Our nights are pretty easy, it's our afternoons that suck. Homework is the devil...
We're home by 3:15 on a normal day. She comes straight in and starts homework. That lasts anywhere from 45mins to 1.5 hours...depending on what it is and how much she hates doing it. Dyslexia is a biatch.
After that, she vegs out and colors or plays on her iPad, maybe watches a movie. During that time, I cook dinner and we hang out. She takes her shower before dinner usually and then we eat around 6:30 or 6:45 {or whenever DH gets home from work.} After dinner they read and she's in bed by 7:45 or 8. After that, I pack her lunch {I'm a bento box person} for the next day, chat with DH if he's not out of town, watch TV or read and am in bed around 11pm.
Now the changes...
On Mondays she has dance until 5:15, so she doesn't have much free time before dinner due to homework and getting ready for the next day.
On Tuesdays, DH and I have date night, so I start dinner and our sitter finishes it when she gets there at 6.
On Wednesday we go to church for dinner and Wed. night programs around 5pm and home by 7:30. She goes straight to bed and takes a shower in the AM.
5:30 - we all get home from work / school
5:30-5:45 - preparing dinner & starting homework
6:00 - 6:30 - dinner
6:30 - 7:30 (hopefully) homework
7:30 - 8 - shower and/or free time
8 - 8:30 bedtime
This is the goal, it is not always met.