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Today is See You at the Pole, so my kids left the house early to participate. We all left the house at 7am, but they have biscuits there so breakfast wasn't needed (whew).

Normally, my older 2 kids (HS) get out of the house at 7:20am and I take the little ones to school a bit later, leaving at 7:40am.

I try really hard to get my cup of coffee before I leave but it doesn't always happen. Mornings are a bit like cattle prodding around here. Go.Go.Go.Go. LOL.

In the summer, I leave for work at around 8:00am and on the days I'm off, I enjoy NOT leaving early unless I have an appointment. :hehe

So, what time do you get out of the house in the mornings? What's your morning routine? Are mornings stressful or relaxing? Let's take a peek at your morning...
 
first of all... whoops. It was see you at the pole for our school today too and we missed it. sigh.

So... during the school year, I go to work at 6:30 am, so that I can fit in my 8 hours and still leave at 3:00 to pick the kids up from school and do the homework and sports running around stuff. My hubby is in charge of the morning routine. I wake the first boy up as I'm leaving for work and he takes it from there. If something isn't on the calendar, he'll never remember to do it, hence forgetting the thing at 7:30 this morning.

Anyway, my hubby is WAY better at the morning routine than I am. He's a drill Sargent. He does nothing for the kids anymore as they are 9 and 11 (but it's been this way for at least three years). They shower and then get themselves dressed and then get themselves breakfast. Sometimes I'm good and make healthier options ahead of time for them to just warm up, but at lot of times it's a frozen breakfast sandwich or cold cereal (which I hate). They have a bad habit of getting part way dressed and then picking up their electronics and getting distracted and that's a big no-no in the morning. If they even think about being late, they lose devices for a week. Mostly they know to wait until they've finished everything before they can play for a few minutes. I'm too much of a softy and would cave on stuff like that (or forget after a day that they were supposed to lose them) my hubby rocks at mornings!
 
When DH works, he's up at 4:30 am to be at work by 6.

When I work, I get up around 7 am and leave by 7:30 for work. DH and the kids get up around the time I leave & are out the door by 8:15 am to take DD to school. I lay out their clothes ahead of time & make DD's lunch at the same time that I'm making mine so DH just has to get them dressed and fed. Organization & execution are not his strong suits so I make the process as easy as possible.

When we both work, he's long gone when the kids & I get up at 6:30 am. I get them dressed first & then they have breakfast. I get ready for work while they're eating, and then we leave around 7:30 am for the babysitter. I head straight to work after that.
 
Ugh. I'm not a fan of school mornings, but we have our routine down pretty well, so most days it's not too stressful. I'm up between 5 and 5:30. If I'm super-tired, it may take me 20-30 minutes just to get to the point that I'm functional. If I'm awake enough and have time, I shower. If not, I just get dressed.

I get DD up at 6:10 if she's not up yet (which is most days) and get her breakfast for her. I eat while she's eating, and sometimes do things like dishes or fold laundry. She continues getting ready for school, and I get DS up at 6:45. Then there is some shuffling of kids in and out of the bathroom. DS likes to fall asleep in between every step. I've offered to let him sleep until his sister is completely done in the bathroom, but he wants the more gradual wake-sleep-wake-sleep thing. He even goes back to bed after his shower, which drives me bananas.

If DD is ready in time, she heads out to catch the bus at 7:15. If not, I drive her to school at about 7:35 and am back home in 15-20 minutes. She likes to be to school when they open at 7:45, but classes don't start until 8:30.

DS and I head out to drive him to school at 8:10 so that he has time to eat breakfast there before classes start at 9:00. I'm back home in 25-30 minutes.

DS rode the bus last year when he was going to a different school, but this year it gets him there too late. He rode it the first day and actually arrived after classes had started, so even if it was on time, he probably wouldn't have time for breakfast. I emailed the bus department to see what time the bus was supposed to arrive at school, but got no answer. I know there are a lot of days it's got to be late, based on the times I see it go through our neighborhood, having a general idea of the route, and knowing the traffic and distance to the schools. Since I'm able to drive him, I'd rather just do that than have him start off his day stressing about being late to class. If I weren't in a position to be able to drive him, I'd be raising all kinds of stink with the transportation department. We had problems with the buses when he was in kindergarten and he was late almost every day, but there's a big difference between missing a little bit of kindergarten story time and being late for an 11th grade chemistry class. :p
 
When I have to work, my alarm goes off at 6.20. Then I'll stay in bed, waking up and listening to the radio for a while. Get washed, dressed, do make up. Make a quick lunch and have breakfast. I leave the house at 7.30 to catch my train at 7.47. Then I'll be at school around 8.05 which is perfectly on time because school starts at 8.30. Even if I miss my train and I'll have to take a later one, I'll still be on time. Which is a perfectly designed safety net because sometimes I'm just lazy. I do everything on time. I never have time to spare. Which is why I need to take an earlier train in case I fail at my planning or my train decided to just not ride.

When I have the day off, I really take my day off. I either don't set an alarm or set it at 9/9.30ish. :)
 
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Weekday mornings -

Dogs get me up at 5:30 - they potty, get fed, and I do a few kitchen/house chores
In the shower by 6:00-ish
Out the door by 6:45-ish
To work by 7:15-ish.

Weekends, we're still up at 5:30 (because Heaven forbid the dogs NOT get fed by 5:30, 5:45 at the latest, or they might starve to death).
 
I kind of have two different types of mornings: uni and no uni
uni days I'm up between 5.30am and 5.45am if I have a morning class and its shower, breakfast and grab lunch etc, everything else is done the night before. I am out of the house around 6.30am and catch a bus at 6.50am so no extra time in my morning routine and I refuse to get up any earlier. If I have an afternoon class I still do a similar routine but I'm not leaving the house til between 8.30-9.30 (even though I have an afternoon class, I try and be on campus between 10.30-12 so I can use the library when I'm there as I live over an hour away from university)
non uni days, its a whenever I get up kind of thing and I have no real routine so to speak of
 
Lindzee said:
k. first, what the heck is the pole?
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"See You At the Pole" (if I remember correctly) is like a prayer meeting for school age (and apparently parents?). I participated in school a time or two. Kids meet at the school flag pole for prayer, I think.
 
mornings.... i'm not functional until like 10am it feels like. Alarm goes off at 4am. usually not out of bed till closer to 5. coffee, maybe breakfast... husband gets babies up at 5. Between 5-6 is get ready time.... clothes, shoes, etc.... I'm usually on my devices *shame on me*
If it is a day I am literally running the kids in to day care, i have them in the stroller by 6am, but i try to be earlier.... it takes me 35ish minutes to run the mile-ish there, get them set up with breakfast that they provide, and run the mile -ish back. then I'm home, try to get showered, before I turn on my work laptop at 7am... and i have my own full pot of coffee between 7-10....ish. ;)

If I have to actually drive into the office, I have to leave the house at 6am, and I'm driving 35 miles after dropping kids off, so still starting at 7am. (but I get far less coffee if I do this.... *thumbs down*)

The days I'm not running, and not driving in to the office are my favorite. Because they are my absolute lazy days. i do nothing except sit on the computer or devices after driving them to day care. It's lovely.... quiet... haha.
 
Morning... my most least (lol) favorite time of the day.

I'm up first around 5:30... 5:45. DH handles the boys in the morning, in hopes that I get out of the house earlier. (HAHA.... I do try!) I leave about 6:30... 6:45 and I'm usually at work by 7/7:10 or so. I will help him with the boys if they need something - money, hair flattened (lol) or random clothing mishaps. For the most part it is smooth, but they are soooooooo slooooooow! DH drops them off at morning care, and then they walk/take the bus home. I am home before the bus... that I the only reason why I get up and out early. UGH!

I had never heard of the pole thing either.
 
Our schedule is mostly random. :giggle

I try to wake up and get started around 6:20am, because I do all of my need to get it done things at night.
I don't always make the 6:20am time bc of the aforementioned late nights. :hammock
I wake the kids around 6:45am and we have until 8am-ish to get out the door.
All of that changes in October when Josh starts flags. He has to be at school by 7:45 in order to hang the flags. He is very excited about this responsibility. We'll see how he feels about it after the first week. :dizzy
 
I love early mornings on weekends and holidays, not so much during school/work time! I get up at 5 and usually take 20 min or so to have some coffee and wake up a bit. Then shower and start getting ready. DH gets up about 6 and is out the door by 6:20, and I wake DS about 6:15. Then again about 6:20, 6:30, and by then, hopefully he is up. He eats while I finish getting ready and we are out the door by 7. We have a 40 min or so drive to school/work, so he usually goes back to sleep in the car.
 
klee73010 said:
"See You At the Pole" (if I remember correctly) is like a prayer meeting for school age (and apparently parents?). I participated in school a time or two. Kids meet at the school flag pole for prayer, I think.
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Yep. The "Pole" is the flag pole in front of the school. My boys go to a Lutheran school and lots of parochial schools around the country do the "meet me at the pole" thing on the same day and do a prayer before school. Personally I think they could have come up with a better name. The first time I saw that in my kids newsletter in kindergarten, I had the same reaction. I was like What? :giggle
 
My hubby gets up when it is dark (sometime around 5) and then he wakes me up to kiss me goodbye (I really could do without that :giggle). Before kindergarten started, I would sleep until Kennedy came in to wake me up, and then I'd plead with him to let me sleep just a little longer. haha.

Now, if Kennedy doesn't wake me up first, I get my daughter up at 7:45 because she has a weird sleep issue that doesn't let her wake up on her own most of the time. We cajole Kennedy into getting ready for kindergarten. Usually she makes his lunch and I remind him to keep eating breakfast and get him dressed. Then she leaves to drop him off at 8:45. I gave a few quiet minutes to myself before she gets back. I usually take a shower and do that sort of thing. She leaves for work from any time between 9-11 depending on her schedule, and then I have the day all to myself until I pick the little nugget up from school at 3. Pretty boring stuff. I used to think that I'd go back to sleep once Kennedy was off for the day, but I'm trying to be more productive. :giggle
 
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My mornings aren't too bad now that I have teens....

My son is up at 6:00 (on his own) and leaves the house at 6:30 to take the CTA to school. My only part in this is chatting with him for a few minutes while he puts on his shoes. His school doesn't start until 8:00... but he likes being an hour early :-/

I play on my phone or computer until time to get my daughter out the door. She gets up at 6:45 on her own, comes down dressed around 7:25. We chat while she fixes and eats her breakfast and I make her lunch. And then I walk her the couple of blocks to school around 7:45. That is if we don't run into her friend who walks the same route... then she ditches me and I just go back home.

After that, if it's MW or F, I call my mom for our regular chat and then start on the house stuff and eventually shower.
 
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