We’ve got a routine now that you can set a clock to… I started easy, with my own routine. Trying to figure out what I NEEDED to get done first thing in the morning, and what I’d like to be done.  I took a sheet of loosleaf paper, folded it in half longways making two colums, one for what I HAD to do each morning, and what I’d like to get done also.  I HAD to make breakfast, fix medication for Dakota, get them ready, etc. I WANTED to be able to get a shower in before they got up, get my bed made, etc. I tinkered around with the timing, and figuring out when the earliest/latest I could wake up. And slowly added in the things I wanted to get done.  I realized.. I can make my bed in 4-5 minutes. It’s not 100% perfect with hospital corners, but it’s nicely made, so that when i walk past my bedroom, it looks put together, and I’m not crawling into a messy bed at night. Test it out for yourself.. You can get it done in like 4 or 5 minutes, i swear!

What I do… I roll out of bed, and start making it when my feet hit the floor. Usually, first thing in the morning when i wake up, I’m about to pee on myself, so that pushes me to get it done quickly. I race to finish it so I can go pee..lol … I strip, and hop in the shower, dry off and use my towel to wipe down the sink, splashes or whatever. (BTW.. I keep a toothbrush holder and toothbrush in the shower, and brush my teeth while my conditioner moisturizes).  I get dressed (clothes out the night before), put on my shoes before I head downstairs i drop the clothes I slept in and bathtowels at the top of the stairs. I start breakfast, fix cups for the boys (Kota’s with his meds), I drink water, take my meds/vitamins, grab the boys shoes out of their cubbies and head up the stairs to wake them up. I open their bathroom, put their shoes in with their clothes, turn the heat vent on and then We do their beds/clean. When we are done, the bathroom is warm, and they get bathes and hair washed. While I let them adjust to bathwater, I fix their toothbrushes with toothpaste and lay them out, when they get out of the tub, they grab their tooth brushes and brush while I’m drying them off.  I keep plastic bags in their bathroom for their night time pull-ups, i toss them in, tie it up, grab the dirty towel/clothes, we head out. Kota usually does his one last glance at their room to say it’s all clean, and once he does, Bryant closes the door.  On my way down the stairs, I bring the sealed bag with dirty pull-ups, and grab my laundry that I put on the top of the stairs.

I drop the bag in the garbage can, the laundry in the washer, while they get their breakfast. I have ‘their morning schedule’ (which i’ll take about later) hanging low on the fridge, Kota reads it off to Bryant, and says check, and normally when it get’s to “Get backpacks” they both bolt to their cubbies. The last thing they do before we leave is put their cups in the sink, so I know where they are later (i was tired of chasing sippie cups, so now they know if they don’t get dropped in the sink to be washed, they don’t get a sippy later when they get home because mom is no longer going to hunt cups!)