Piggyback: Sahms Daily Schedule

Kids, 3&4, wake up around 7-7:30 and always start their morning off playing with their toys.
8:30 - breakfast, then coloring, drawing, painting...some sort of arts & crafts. It's funny because they just pull the stuff out on their own and will just sit and work at the table.
Then they get dressed to go out somewhere by 10-10:30 (library storytime, playgroup, playdate, park, grocery shopping, preschool for 4 yr old 3 mornings)
12-12:30 home for lunch
1:00 play with toys inside or outside, if it's nice they're usually outside with me riding bikes on the driveway
3:00 IPad/quiet time...I need the break too.
4:00 husband gets home so more playing mostly around/with him
5-6:00 I get dinner ready and we all eat together
7:00 bath time
7:30 bedtime

I made a weekly schedule. On Monday I might need to work on Laundry so I wanted to be at home most of the day, no errands.

Tuesday there might be Story Time at the library for little ones so that would be our big plan of the day. During summer there are usually free movies somewhere on Tuesday's.

Wednesday, usually a hump sort of day and errands out the wazoo. Lots of time in the car and getting in and out.

Thursday there is usually another class of some sorts at the library or some other place. We also did a play date at church once upon a time on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the mornings.

Fridays were laundry day again so we were home all day.

This is what we did when my boys were young. I got up at 7:00am for coffee and paper. Kids got up at 8:00am. We took our time having breakfast and getting dressed. We went out at about 10:00am, to play group, library, museum, zoo, YMCA etc. We would come home at noon for lunch (unless we packed a picnic). At 1:00pm we would go out again, usually closer to home, like the playground or grocery store, or another plyagroup or library. We would come home at 3:00pm, at which time kids had naps or quiet time. During this time I did housework or made supper. Supper was at 5:00pm. We would go out again at 6:00pm if we had evening activities, such as swimming lessons, soccer or YMCA drop in sports. We would be home for 8:00pm, have baths, wind down and to bed by 10:00pm. I would head to bed myself around 11:00pm. So basically I would have one hour blocked for meal times, and two hour blocks for morning, afternoon and evening activities, and two hour blocks for quiet times and winding down.

I've always been a total mix of scheduler AND fly by the seat of my pants
person.

This has come in handy when I've needed to have a schedule for my
child (eating every 3 hrs as an infant then his every changing lifestyle
as he started getting older).

Now as a preschooler age it looks like this for the moment:
-wake up (this time varies a little btwn 7:30 & 8:30)
-play time or 30 mins of cartoons to "wake up"
-during this time I throw in laundry, dishes, vacuum etc
-breakfast
-play time
-lunch
-few errands
-back home. Read a book, playtime, get dinner ready, after dinner play
time with dad & sibling, bath, relax together as a family, read a few
books, brush teeth, bedtime

Bedtime varies slightly depending upon our day's activities. If he's had a
nap, he goes to bed later.

Weekly activities include;
-1 or 2 days a week library reading time
-once a week playdate w/a friend
-park for play twice a week during good weather (during rainy weather we
go to the indoor mall to walk around & play on the indoor playgrounds)
-play at home each day(indoors or out)
-once a week we go to a playtime at a local center
-sometimes we go to an outdoor mall to walk around, play at the playground there, play in the water park during warm weather
-we visit grandparents
-go for a walk (weather permitting)
-ride bikes

During the week my children, ages 6 and 9 are in school. However, we still stick to a schedule:

Get up no later than 7/7:30
Breakfast, get dressed, brush hair and teeth and out the door by 8:20
Home right before 5 pm with homework directly after and dinner following shortly thereafter, no later than 6:30
Free play and tv time from 7-9
Brush teeth by no later than 8:30
Bed is promptly at 9 pm.

During the weekend we do the same thing more or less aside from the fact that occasionally the children will sleep til 8 am and there isn't any homework. The fact that I have an autistic child makes it to where I can't deviate too much from a typical routine so that is why I'm able to stay on any type of schedule.

Most days it's like this:

7 a.m. Gets up, drinks breakfast shake and watches cartoons for about 1-1/2 hours
9 a.m.-11 a.m. We then go run errands
11-12 p.m. Come home--he plays with his toys, Ipad, and we play school
12 p.m.--lunch time and then cuddle time
1-3 p.m. Play with the dog; Ipad time or cartoons, naptime
3-4p.m We go pick up the kids from school
4-5 p.m. Dinner prep and eat dinner
5:30-6 p.m. Take our dog on her daily walk or the park
6-7 p.m. Homework and playtime with his brother
7:30 p.m. Bath time
7:30-8 p.m. Snacktime and family time
8 p.m.--Bed time

This will all change though come fall when he starts preschool. As for now, my 3 year old doesn't like going places. So, doing any kind of tot class or playgroup just doesn't seem to mesh with him. Luckily, at least 3 days a week, he ice skates and plays hockey too, so that breaks up the monotony.

yes.. we had a sort of routine.

my kids get up about the same time every day..

breakfast.. get dressed.. playtime until it was time to go someplace..usually a playgroup or libary story time or somthing.. kids didnt need to go someplace but I did..

come home lunch nap.. playtime dinner bathtime (everyother day) story time bedtime..

Yes and no.

School days are get up and get dressed and out to school. She's home around 1PM and we finish up her lunch and if there's nothing else to do, we hang out, watch a few cartoons, draw, play games, have a snack...

Before she started school, I'd get her up by 9ish and have breakfast, get dressed, etc. We did Meet Ups and library events and ran errands and whatever. When she napped, I tried to be home for those naps, but she naps anywhere, even half curled up in the grocery cart. So I just kept moving. Lunch about the same time every day, btwn 12 and 1.

Our biggest "routine" was going to the library once a week, another activity once a month, and all the bedtime/evening activities and getting her tucked into bed.

When I was a SAHM I had some activities outside the home every week that we could build our days around. These included the Mainly Music program, grocery shopping, swimming lessons, play at the park etc. we'd get up, have breakfast, get ready and head out. At that younger age, the children did better at morning activities, then having a more relaxing afternoon at home. At 5.30 pm they'd have dinner, then showers and bedtime with stories at around 7.00 pm. Their bedtime was my saving grace, and would give me an opportunity to clean up, then relax.