Need a Good Sample Schedule for New SAHM

Updated on May 12, 2010
B.C. asks from Arlington, TX
4 answers

Up until the last 2 months, I worked from home watching children. I had a pretty good daily routine at that time but it was because I was forced to stay home all day. Now, my days seem a little scattered and it's driving me nuts!
Here's how a (fairly) typical day looks like:
Monday and wednesday we get up around 9am, watch Barney for a while and have breakfast, then get my hubby up at 10:30 (he works until 11pm), then we usually run an errand from 12-1pm, then its lunch/naptime from 1-3:30pm. Then my oldest one gets home and I send them out to play for a while while I clean up a bit. My hubby leaves for work at 1pm. After about 4pm is when I get lost. The kids usually eat at 6:30 and then it's nothingness until I get around to bedtime routine at 8pm-9pm when they go to bed.
Then I have from 9pm-11pm to do whatever until my hubby gets home. I usually spend that time picking up toys and playing on facebook or watching tv.
Tuesdays and thursdays my youngest goes to preschool, so I have that time to do the heavy cleaning until she gets home at 2:30.
On Fridays my husband is off and I clean a client's house.
So help ! Please! I hate not having a solid schedule. I feel so scattered! And don't get me wrong, we do have fun. I'm just serving up a sample of the hard times I'm having. WE love the museum and the park, snowcones and Braums. :)

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C.M.

answers from Austin on

Here is my schedule (if it helps):
7:00- everyone wakes up, starts to eat breakfast. I make coffee and stumble around until
8:00- clean up from breakfast, clean kitchen
9:00-10:30- run any morning errand we need to run or play in the backyard (house if its raining)
10:30-11:30- Hang around the house, coloring, I usually read for while.
11:30- take older boy to school
12:00- lunch with the little one
12:45 (or so) until 2- quiet time
2:45 pick up kid
3-4- Play, read, whatever
4-5 cook dinner
5- eat
6- bath (sometimes, sometimes we just go to the park instead)
7- storytime, bedtime

Boring, right? Yeah. But some days we go to story time at the library in the morning. Sometimes we go to the park. I try very hard to keep our lives simple. Other than the meal times I really like to do "things" in the morning and stick around the house in the afternoon. Also, I don't like to spend a lot of money. So mostly we do things that are free.

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S.C.

answers from Dallas on

Great question. I just recently began staying home full time with the kids. This is my second week and I feel the the same. Like I need a schedule like I'm just wandering around, not really accomplishing much. I had a good schedule when I worked because I had to now I am sinking. I Will be looking at responses as well.

P.W.

answers from Dallas on

Your schedule sounds pretty full to me! But if you are looking for more I have a few suggestions.
Summer is upon us so see if you can find a local pool and go swimming in the afternoons. After the kids go to bed is a great time for a hobby...scrapbooking, knitting, etc...
Or, let me tell you about what I do working from home. I work 5-10 hours a week and make extra money. You can do this too in the hours you describe.

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R.T.

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It doesn't sound like there is much "fun" going on! You said you "run errands" from 12-1... but what about going out and doing something FUN? How about going to a park, or storytime at the library or a bookstore, or even just playing at the play area of a McDonalds or ChickfilA? (If you go after lunch, you can just buy ice cream and then it's cheaper so you can go more often!) Sorry, but I am not a set schedule type of person, but I do try to do something fun nearly every day. I have to actually schedule stay at home days in order to get laundry and cleaning done because I go stir crazy if I'm home all day, and absolutely batty if my days are all the same.

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