![]() Chores after breakfast if there are any to be done.No child comes out of their room until it’s clean with bed made.Here are some quick and easy tidy routines. Hopefully you have a spouse who knows that helping isn’t doing you a favor.īut still, if you’re home all day you likely want to be accomplishing some of these tasks in an efficient way.įirst, create some daily routines revolving around home systems. This means the cleaning, organizing, cooking, tidying, and overall maintenance of the home. You can use my daily mom log to make sure you get your self-care in.Ī large part of being a stay at home mom is creating and maintaining home systems. Don’t save all your work for the evenings after the kids are in bed, use that time to connect with your spouse or relax.Make independent play a daily priority and use that for rest if you prefer to do household chores or work during the afternoon rest.Enforce nap or rest times with your little ones.This means you can fill them with activity or no activity. A much better idea is to create pockets in your day full of nothing. Your stress hormones will rise, you’ll feel anxious, and simultaneously guilty because your schedule will not work and you’ll feel like a failure. If you create a schedule and fill every single minute you’ll drive yourself to insanity. It didn’t happen on purpose, but I put all the kids to nap at the same time and then… I either work or nap. I’m not sure whether it’s good or bad, but here it is… I have trained myself to take naps in the afternoon. Create a boundary in your home that no one comes out of their room until you come to them… this prevents Morning Wake Time Creep where they wake up earlier and earlier since you’re up and at ’em.Have books, coffee, clothes, breakfast – whatever – ready so you can get up and get going. By having a ritual you enjoy you’re more likely to maintain this habit. It may be cup of coffee with Bible or anything that means something to you. Read : Mom Burnout: A Hard But Freeing Truth How to take advantage of early mornings: ![]() ![]() No one likes leaving things undone so don’t wake up so early that you begin to tackle something you can’t finish. I can drink a coffee, read my Bible, exercise, and then be ready to get the kids before I’m mentally committed to something. Now, I wake up around 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes before the kids. ![]() Time management experts suggest having work blocks of 4 hours or so and having 2 or 2.5 to myself got me In The Zone and then…. Because it interrupted my deep work flow. ![]()
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