I'm home full time. We don't have a housekeeper or anything. We do have a routine, we just kind of fell into it but it's working.
Troy gets the baby up at 6amish and takes care of "breakfast" then gets ready to go to work and heads off at 8am. At that point my day becomes all about Elliott. We usually sleep a little or snuggle until 9am, when we get up for the day. Then we have our feed-play-nap-repeat routine which takes us through until 5.30pm when Troy gets home.
The only thing I can do around the house when I'm alone with Elliott is the washing - 2mins to put it in the machine, 2mins to put it in the dryer. Everything else has to wait.
Of an evening the theory is that Troy entertains the baby while I make dinner and clean/tidy/fold laundry/etc. Although I end up doing a lot of the entertaining too since Elliott has started really watching what I'm doing when I'm in the kitchen - so I talk to him while peeling potatoes or whatever.
We now have a pretty consistent bed time of around 8.30pm, once Elliott is in bed then both of us have "us" time. Kind of - I'm usually still doing chores for a bit longer but that's my choice.
Weekends is the same - Troy feeds/changes/entertains the baby while I sleep in and do chores (and uni work during semester). Although see above re: I end up doing a lot anyway.
I'm a planner too. I just had to learn that I couldn't plan anything between 8am-5.30pm on weekdays.
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Date: 2008-12-13 12:13 am (UTC)Troy gets the baby up at 6amish and takes care of "breakfast" then gets ready to go to work and heads off at 8am. At that point my day becomes all about Elliott. We usually sleep a little or snuggle until 9am, when we get up for the day. Then we have our feed-play-nap-repeat routine which takes us through until 5.30pm when Troy gets home.
The only thing I can do around the house when I'm alone with Elliott is the washing - 2mins to put it in the machine, 2mins to put it in the dryer. Everything else has to wait.
Of an evening the theory is that Troy entertains the baby while I make dinner and clean/tidy/fold laundry/etc. Although I end up doing a lot of the entertaining too since Elliott has started really watching what I'm doing when I'm in the kitchen - so I talk to him while peeling potatoes or whatever.
We now have a pretty consistent bed time of around 8.30pm, once Elliott is in bed then both of us have "us" time. Kind of - I'm usually still doing chores for a bit longer but that's my choice.
Weekends is the same - Troy feeds/changes/entertains the baby while I sleep in and do chores (and uni work during semester). Although see above re: I end up doing a lot anyway.
I'm a planner too. I just had to learn that I couldn't plan anything between 8am-5.30pm on weekdays.