I usually prep dinner, make grocery lists, list items on Facebook Marketplace, and finish getting dressed.

I multi-task really heavily while I eat my lunch. I wrap up work, grab lunch, feed my son, and do a few household chores (hello laundry!), and drive to pick up my daughter. Sometimes he plays, and sometimes he watches this baby Signing Time video here. If he doesn’t sleep, I will turn on his light, give him toys, and let him play in his crib.ġ1:00 am -12:00 pm – He “wakes up” and I usually give him a bowl of cheerios to eat near me. He will stay in his crib for “quiet time” for a good hour and a half. Half of the time he naps, and the other time he just plays and coos. See more how I do this here.ĩ:30 am – 11:00 am – I change his diaper and put him down in his crib. He plays well by himself, and I usually just need to rotate the locations and he has full reign. I just rotate him in the different areas. I try to work about four hours in the morning, only stopping for coffee, more coffee….and then a bathroom break.ĭuring this time, my son (who is 1 year old) has this schedule:Ĩ:00 am – 9:30 am – He plays in the play area, in my daughters room next to my desk, and then his room. See how I set up the play area near my desk here! He plays in this about an hour every morning while I work next to him. My husband takes my daughter to preschool, while I let my son play in his play area near my desk. It takes me an hour to wake the kids up, make breakfast, make my daughter’s preschool lunch, get dressed, grab coffee, and sit down to work. Y’all, this kills me!ħ:00 – 8:00 am (morning routine and school drop off) I make coffee, and just try to work an hour before the kids get up. I usually wake up, immediately drag my un-brushed, pajama’d self to the computer. So…waking up early is preferable for sure. If I don’t wake up at 6, then I usually have to fit in an hour of work after 8 pm. I try to wake up at 6 am every day to get in an hour of work before the kids get up. But, lately, I’m doing well if I just get up at 6 am. I even wrote a whole post about how I started waking up at 5 am. But, that only happens maybe once a week right now. Here is my honest 8-5 work from home mom schedule: 6:00 – 7:00 am (early morning) Work Hours: 1 This, instead, is my honest work at home mom schedule. I really wanted to fudge a bit, and give you a more ambitious, “good mom” schedule. It is honestly brutal – telling you all the weird ways that I schedule my days. Y’all, I really am nervous about sharing this schedule. But, because I work for an employer 8-5 every day, I don’t change my schedule that much. There are some days that are little different than others. My weekday schedule is pretty much the same every day. (To see exactly how I use this schedule, check out my Insta story videos here.) On the template, there are really easy ways to create these lists and add them to your schedule. To add in self-time, look for ways to listen to a podcast or do a facial mask while you are making dinner or taking kids to the park!

Need to run a load of laundry? Spend 15 minutes loading the washing machine while your kids eat lunch. Need 30 minutes to take a shower? Add in a 30 minute activity. See my favorite kids activities broken down by age group here. Then, to make this block schedule work for you, make a list of kids activities and home chores that you can scatter around. To fill in the block schedule, fill in your obligations in this order:

See how these blocks affect the other people in the household – and how you can also schedule home chores around those obligated activites. To get started, you will want to block off definite obligated activites for each person.Īdd in work hours, childcare, school, sports and activities. You will want separate block schedules for each component in your life. to create your separate blocks, or you can print the blank doc and fill in the the titles yourself. On the template, you can use my default headers of “mom”, “home”, etc.

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