6-8am - get the kids moving, make multiple breakfasts because they all want something different (including SO), get family prepared to travel, etc.
8am - start work.
3-4pm - collect some kids from school, sit in line feeling like you’re the worst because you’re not #1 in line for pickup, but you don’t think being there an hour early is reasonable.
5pm - end “work day”, begin “evening” and figure out what’s for dinner (we planned this weekly, so it’s not too hard) then make it.
7pm - bedtime ritual starts. deal with ensuing tantrums because “I don’t want to brush my teeth” or “I’m in the middle of this activity” or “why do I have to read?!”.
8:30-9pm - kids are in bed. finally.
9:30-5:30 - MY FUCKING TIME. 8 hours where the rest of the family is asleep and I get to manage myself… poorly. I need 5h, so bedtime before 12:30 is acceptable. Ignoring rounding errors, 10pm-12pm is for me. ignore it at your peril.
You have to decompress. After a full day of masking up and not losing it.
5:30-6am, wake up and become competent.
6-8am - get the kids moving, make multiple breakfasts because they all want something different (including SO), get family prepared to travel, etc.
8am - start work.
3-4pm - collect some kids from school, sit in line feeling like you’re the worst because you’re not #1 in line for pickup, but you don’t think being there an hour early is reasonable.
5pm - end “work day”, begin “evening” and figure out what’s for dinner (we planned this weekly, so it’s not too hard) then make it.
7pm - bedtime ritual starts. deal with ensuing tantrums because “I don’t want to brush my teeth” or “I’m in the middle of this activity” or “why do I have to read?!”.
8:30-9pm - kids are in bed. finally.
9:30-5:30 - MY FUCKING TIME. 8 hours where the rest of the family is asleep and I get to manage myself… poorly. I need 5h, so bedtime before 12:30 is acceptable. Ignoring rounding errors, 10pm-12pm is for me. ignore it at your peril.