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by KATE HUNTER
I don’t know how it happened, but our day is starting earlier and earlier.
I had thought when our babies turned into kids, the crack-of-dawn start would be over, but no, it’s just ramping up. Sure, there was a brief period in the early primary years when the ‘hard deck’ ie we must be out of the house time was a civilized 8.20am but now that is a distant dream. On three out of five weekdays I’m backing out the driveway at 7.15am.
This is because of kids’ before-school activities, which I don’t think are excessive (many will disagree). The rule at our place is you can do one sport and one cultural extra-curricular activity a term. That means netty and guitar but not guitar, netty and gymnastics. This rule will remain in place until kids can get themselves to training, matches and lessons.
We’re not especially organized, so it takes me an hour and a half to have everyone sorted.
That means up at 5.45am. That’s early. But it takes me that long to:
pack lunches, make kids’ breakfast, do hair, look for hairclips, scream about where all the hairclips go, rant about missing library books, feed the dog, threaten to give the dog away, look for my car keys, rummage through the clean laundry pile for clean undies, rummage through the dirty laundry pile for clean undies, steal money from 9 year old’s piggy bank for parking meter, get caught, write IOU, give lecture on evils of theft, do girls’ hair, do own hair, make mental note to get roots done, remind 5 year old it’s sports uniform day, yell, depart, remember phone is on charger, return to house, depart again. With any luck it’s 7.14am or earlier. Often there is no luck.
There is often no breakfast either- for me. Like most parents, I feed myself last, using remaining time available. That means it just doesn’t happen.
Hell-llo café bought blueberry and white chocolate muffin the size of VW.
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How do mornings roll at your place? Are you super-organised? Is there time to spare or are you like me, yelling like a demented Masterchef judge, ‘Come ON! We have three minutes to get OUT THAT DOOR!’ If something has to be skipped, is it your breakfast?
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They’re also sold in the biscuit aisle, right next to the Tim Tams. And you know what they say, “If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…..it’s not a breakfast food.”
it;s just another case of a money-making company, with no genuine interest in your personal wellbeing, marketing something-that-used-to-resemble-food as the silver bullet to our nutritional and lifestyle problems, then laughing all the way to the bank.
Although I suspect there’s no much money to be made from these biscuits, as they’re being flogged in supermarket for 99c a packet. Perhaps savvy shoppers saw right through this one?
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I can usually get myself and all the kids done within 1 hour. This is how:
1. Night before, all the paperwork for school done.
2. Get up at 7:20am, immediate toast for breakfast and tea while facebooking and watching Today show for around 10 minutes max.
3. Kids are all breakfasting at the same time.
4. Immediately onto dressing all 3 kids one after the other, hair, teeth all done. Clothes for school are sorted out day beforehand.
5. I chuck on clothes from wardrobe, maybe worn once or twice already..whatevz, always clean underwear, hair, face teeth, lipgloss for me.
Schoolchild starts school at 8:45am, kinderchild, between 8:45-9:00am. Toddler at home with me, watching ABC kids while I shower on my return.
I’ll have to get up slightly earlier next year as I’ll have two at school.
Enjoying it while I can…..
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ad ad ad, i almost bought into this story- and then you tell pretty much that it is nothing more than an advert!
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“Made with five wholegrains, low GI, rich in cereals and a source of fibre…”
That’s such an interesting choice of words there by Kraft: “A source of fibre”. Wow, a whopping 1.7g for a serving of the pictured variety. Gosh, I’m impressed. I do like how they avoid phrases such as “a source of sugar” and “a source of saturated fat”, both of which are more prevalent in their biscuits (both by weight and by percentage of daily intake).
Putting food in your face in the morning isn’t the most challenging of tasks. Apples & bananas are affordable and portable (as are mandarins & oranges, but I don’t have that sort of hand-eye coordination in the mornings); a couple of slices of toast is pretty easy if you do have a minute or two to spare; and a container of almonds will happily sit for ages in your bag/car/desk/wherever until you fancy a nice protein-and-mineral-rich handful. If I’m feeling especially fancy, I might grab a big spoonful of peanut butter, then look like a massive dingbat walking up to the station licking a spoon. Exchange the spoon for a carrot if you’re feeling particularly virtuous (although it doesn’t look any more elegant).
Those are the sorts of things I grab when I get up & leave the house at quarter past dark in the morning. And, unlike the biscuits in this advertisement, none of those things have to be imported from the Czech Republic*. Bonus!
(* nothing personal, Czech Republic, but we produce plenty of our own food already. But cheers for offering to share your grown-up rusks. It’s kind of you to offer. Here, have some fairy bread.)
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Loved the article and laughed, but I can never really see how any body survives when they are so unorganised.
Yes i worked full time, yes i had 4 kids, and yes the mornings were a little rushed, but really!!!!
Bags packed the night before (after doing the washing and hanging it out at night), lunches semi packed ready for the fresh stuff in the morning. All clothes on a chair ready for the morning. Kids to dress themselves, otherwise to face a really angry mum( i pulled a lot of really scary faces) .
I got up at 6 and we left at 7.30. The biggest hassle was the child who hated school and had to be dragged off the fence to get in the car.
Maybe i should take up a career of planning the mornings for harried unstructured mums!!!!
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Not a morning person, and I think my decision to freelance from home has really made me worse. My morning commute includes a stumble from the bedroom, generally via the kitchen, to the study to turn on the computer. I then actually ‘wake up’ at about 10.30 (i.e. now) and think perhaps I should get out of PJs and shower / look presentable.
On a side note, I really hope people get over this idea of video conferencing / skype to hold meetings – requires a level of prep I don’t normally achieve if I don’t have any out of house meetings scheduled.
Thankfully husband is a morning person. This gives me some hope that if we have kids, they will actually make it to school!
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I work night shifts so my day starts about 11am.
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Nice padded out advertisement for the biscuits – why don’t you just write the ad instead of churning out this rubbish as a preface to it.
Let me guess at tomorrow’s topic – how clean are your clothes?
No wonder journalism is dying
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I’m not a morning person. My partner says I am, but only because he’s even worse than I am. My alarm goes off at 7.30, I sit at the computer reading Facebook and email while drinking tea for a while, then shower and get dressed. By this time I’m running late because I spent too long reading Facebook, so I put some toast on and, while that’s cooking, pack my lunch. Toast is eaten at the traffic lights.
I’m gluten intolerant so can’t eat belvita bikkies, but wouldn’t if I could. A colleague mentioned that she tried them so we read the nutrition panel and decided that the muesli bars we have in the kitchen at work (GF for me, nut free for her) are healthier.
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I am not a morning person but goodness, have never dropped kids to school in my pyjamas. How long does it take to have a shower and get dressed?
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The school I work at begins the school day at 7:35 – so unreasonable!!!! I hate it – I am not now and never will be a morning person.
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I’m in hospitality so these early morning comments are like horror stories to m!
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Ha! Same or else I’m in theatre either way gag fest!
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I’m the ultimate sleeper. I dropped an extension school subject this year just so I wouldn’t have to be at school by 7am twice a week! Shame, it was quite an interesting subject. Oh well!
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Up until 2 weeks ago, I could get up at 8am, showe, breakfast and then leave for work at the latest at 8:45 for the one minute walk to work. I would come home for lunch and sometime naps.
I have since moved in with my boyfriend and now wake up at latest at 7am, where i struggle to get out bed, and leave at 8am. The commute takes 45 minutes where I eat breakfast in the car. I try to organise lunch in the morning but I’m struggling there too.
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Alarm goes off at 7.00am. Get son up into shower. While he is in there, have breakfast, get him out and when he is dressed he has breakfast. Then I get dressed in daggies, he does shoes, tie and teeth then out the door at 8. Phew. I shower when I get back home, at my leisure. Then I go to work. It’s a bit fast paced but I find if the routine slackens we run late, which I hate. While all this goes on my husband is still asleep, which drives me nuts!!
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No two mornings are ever alike for us as the kids (5 and 3yos) are the alarm clock. The 5yo doesn’t usually wake until about 7:50 but sometimes it’s earlier. The 3yo is a bit more reliable, usually around 7:15 to 7:30. I really should get up before this and get ready as it’s always a huge rush to get ready and out the door. However I am just not that good at getting up in thr morning! Luckily I can choose my work day start time. Was late for a meeting last week though as we all slept in until 8:20am. Oops.
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Ugh, I dont have time for breaky either and have taken to carrying those microwave porridge satchels in my handbag for brekky at work. Can’t stand up and goes, and as a last resort…premium biscuits (in the individual packets) with cream cheese. Will give these biscuits a go though…anything I can eat on the run would be heaven.
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Those brekky bikkies are really nice, especially with a coffee. I do like an Up and Go though.
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oh Kate you do crack me up!
I started an early morning gym regime last year despite HATING getting up early for any reason. But its generally working for me – some days anyway.
The only timesaver I can suggest to you (without reading all the other comments) is to pack the lunches the night before. I did this when we had a baby, kinder kid and prep in the house because some mornings it was all just too much.
I will also one day subscribe the another tip from another family with 6 kids (SIX!!! we only have three ie HALF as many!) and that is to have all uniforms laid out the night before, by the children. I am yet to achieve this and often have to put the dryer on with uniform inside on my way out to the gym. Its dry by the time I get home.
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I have a 1hr commute to work and have to be there by 9am at the latest…unfortunately my colleagues are all locals that live 5 mins away and always seem to get there at 8am which makes me seem “late”! That also means if I leave at 5pm I don’t get home til after 6. So people who have to commute are actually packing 2 extra hours into it all….lesson learnt, next job I go for will be CLOSE TO HOME!
Up at 7am for a 7.45am train, which has me sitting down ready to go, with breakfast made at work & ready to eat, by 9am. That’s including the changeover at the AWFUL Central station in Sydney and waiting another 10 mins for connecting train.
I know I shouldn’t complain looking at all the other responses on here, it’s just my husband and I but we are both NOT morning people and to get to work at 8am would mean a 5.45am rise. No thank you!
I have “Up and Go” shakes or a bit of toast with vegemite and a coffee. I don’t really feel like breakfast first thing so that suits me to wait.
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The 3 things that save me are
1. Make all the sandwiches on a sunday night and freeze( a loaf of fresh bread). I make things that they like, but if not – they have to get over it.
2. Some days I put porridge on in the slow cooker the night before. Its gorgeous and quick for breakfast!
3. My kids are not allowed to have brekky until they are dressed – including shoes!!! I do lay out their clothes, it works for us.
I know its early days (kids aged 8 and 4) but my kids really respond to charts and rewards i.e. a sticker, so we have helped our morning chaos with these things.
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Don’t the sandwiches get soggy if you freeze them though? Or are they the type you can toast?
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No, this is not a problem (although all I do is tuna & mayo / Ham / Vegemite / jam / ham and cheese wraps, very simple things no salad. ) I pop them into the lunch boxes frozen, they defrost by lunch and are lovely and fresh.
I also only shop once a fortnight and freeze all my milk (and bread some times) for that period, light milk defrosts really well.
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My mum used to freeze the bread. I always hated my school lunches made from defrosted bread. Yuk!!
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Yep, I hear you. However, I have actually tested the sandwiches we make, and eat them myself some days too, they are nice. As I said before I’d never to salad. I leave the carrots, beans and cucumber as big pieced snacks rather than in the sandwich – frozen lettuce eurghhhhh.
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I’m with you, Flickster. A little preparation the night before solves most dramas in the morning – pre made lunches, uniforms laid out over chair or end of bed, school bags packed, money sorted for excursions/canteen etc, then all we have to do in the morning is get dress (before breakfast), eat, brush hair, clean teeth, lunchbox into backpack and out the door. My son travels 40 mins to high school and gets up at 6am, leaves at 6.30, no problems.
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I’m loving the porridge in the slow cooker idea. 4 kids (9,8,5,2) so I’m looking for any shortcuts to cut down morning stress. Recipe?
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I am not a recipe person (just chuck stuff in using my instinct….), but basically what I do is stick to the normal recipe on side of packet then add a little more water/milk as it really needs a bit more. So sorry, it might take a few times for you to get right with your cooker and oats. I always use whole rolled oats as they are cheap as chips and are lovely and nutritious. Try adding sultanas also, they are gorgeous and puffy after the overnight cooking!
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How great is that!
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I am not a morning person and think it a form of torture that my 2yo wakes at 5am every day. Luckily my husband is a morning person do he takes care of that shift. All I have to manage is to get myself ready and to do my daughter’s hair for school. God help me if my kids become swimmers – I’ll be screwed!
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On the days I work I get up at 6:20. I woke the girls up at 6:45. They get their brekky, get dressed and hopefully make their beds by the time I leave at 7:45. My youngest often dawdles and goes into a trance at the slightest opportunity, so their is a bit of nagging and some yelling.
I often do lunches etc the night before, but I’m going to force the 11 year old to do her own too.
I have contemplated getting up early to walk/jog, but it’s so cold atm. I’m being a coward.
I’m very glad I don’t have to get up early to do morning shifts anymore quite frankly. I do miss the afternoon shift sleep ins though.
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Everything in this house is usually organised and ready the night before, simply because I hate getting up early! I have one son and a full time job and he has 4 afternoons/evenings a week at sport. Last week I didn’t get organised the night before and slept an hour past my alarm- ultimate chaos reigned! My husband’s solution is clever- he sets his mobile phone alarm and leaves it in the kitchen so he has to get out of bed and turn it off!
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I would rather stay up till 11pm getting things laid out and organised that get up at 5.45am! lol
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I can’t believe anyone would eat a biscuit for breakfast! I wouldn’t even snack on something so sugar packed. How hard is it to whack some natural peanut butter on wholegrain toast?
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I get ready in the morning in 15 minutes and drive for 15 minutes, so get up at 7.30 to be at work by 8.
I TRY to give myself 30-45 minutes, but I snooze the alarm. My 15 minutes consists of 5 min shower, get dressed, slap on some make up and out the door. I eat breakfast once I get to work. On the weekends I relish in being able to have scrambled eggs and a cup of tea in front of the TV. However nothing can drag me out of bed to do that on a weekday. Nothing. Devastating. I will be useless if I ever have children and need to do any of these things Kate!
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I’m a first year uni student who lives on campus. My earliest class is midday, so my wakeup time can be as late as 11.45, although its usually more like 10.30.
It’s really a tragic life I lead…
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Savour them now!
God I miss my uni days!!!!
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That is so unfair. When I went to uni, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I did a pretty full day 4 out of 5 days, some lectures started at 8.
My daughter is doing the same course as me and has about 2/3s of my contact time…..
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That sucks! I have 12 contact hours a week (11 this semester because I have a timetable clash), but enough readings that were you actually to do them, would make for a lot heavier course load. Luckily enough its only first year, and you can do really well with some common sense and a teensy bit of time management.
Contact hours can still be pretty terrible for science/engineering/med students though – they always seem to have 5 day weeks with 8am starts, but they pretty much don’t do anything outside of class until exams. Gotta love arts
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My arts degree had 50-60 contact hours a week, we had to be in the studio at 8 am warming up 5 days a week. Finishing on average around 9.30 pm on Saturday we started at 9 finished at 4. Brutal! But god I was thin Nd I had to listen to my science friends tell me I was doing a mickey mouse degree bah!
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I have a school-aged early riser on my hands. 5.30am is the go, rain hail, shine, weekday or weekend. Oh, and another school-aged one who would rather die than be up at that hour!
I still make lunches and lay out school clothes the night before. I’m not an organised person first thing in the morning so getting as much done the night before is my only saving grace. Otherwise I’m screwed.
The days I work I’m at my desk at 7am anyway.
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How Silly,
Just get everything organised the night before. Even feeding the dog.
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Reading some of these comments…. I’m clearly ripe for a rude shock come the school years.
I was getting myself off to school from 6yo. No clothes or food laid out! And yes making my own lunch. I realise this may be a little extreme yet am struggling to imagine myself doing all this stuff for them well into the primary years??
An acquantance is the mum of a professional swimmer. Once the child hit a certain age, it was their job to get themselves ready. The could then wake her for the ride to training…or whatever. Own two legs and a heartbeat and all that…..
Curious as to what I’m missing here? Is it just easier to do it for them? Genuinely baffled and curious
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acquaintance*
“TheY could then wake her…” oops
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Yep – I’m with you there!
I was a latch-key kid. I remember walking to school and walking home again from the age of 6/7 (late Grade 1 / beginning Grade 2). My mum was a single parent. She was up and out the door by 7:30 most mornings and taught me to make my bed from age 3, and I learned to make my own breakfast from age 4. When I got home of a night I was expected to do what I could to start dinner (peel potatoes, carrots, put them in pots on the stove).
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Smart mummy!
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Taste bud, i find it easier to pack my 15 year old son’s lunchbox. Once this is done I can devote all my energy into screaming at him to get out of bed & get dressed, at 7:45 am. I usually do this for approximately 15 minutes every school day, it drives me crazy!!!!!!
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Donsie – you made me laugh, really
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You get them to help, depending on the age/child. My 10yo boy is super organised and reliable and usually does all his homework and uniform prep on his own without prompting. He fills in his own notes and brings them to me to sign. Dream child! I do his lunch entirely; he’s definitely old enough to do it himself or at least help but I’m so dang grateful to him for being such a help elsewhere that I’m only too glad to do it. My 14yo girl needs a lot of prompts and reminders and sometimes it’s just easier on my brain and blood pressure (and quicker all round) to do a lot of it myself… My 7yo is a mix between the two. Regardless of who does what, I always do a final check that everything’s good to go.
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Your eldest two could be twins of mine.
Son wakes me up at 7.30am every morning and is super organised.
Like you, I make his lunch because he does everything else himself including feeding the pets, without prompting.
Teenage daughter is hopeless – the only thing that gets her out the door is that she walks to school with a friend every day and they meet at a set time and she doesnt want her friend to be late.
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Tastebud, my kids are 13 and 10 and they do everything for themselves. Lunch, breakfast, uniform, hair, teeth, make bed etc..aswell as getting all their school stuff. Its their responsibility. Sometimes they make lunch the night before, sometimes morning but it is up to them!
They get up at 7 30am and I get up at 7am. We are all out the door at 8 30am.
It’s not hard…it just takes teaching responsibility and organization.
My only problem is actually getting them out of bed! They have never been morning kids which is great on the weekends!
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My day generally starts at 5am. I always have the bags packs, the lunches and the clothes ready to rock and roll the night before. It really does make all the difference in the morning – a few less things to think about
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have a shower at night then sleep in your trackie so you look “dressed” the next morning
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Kate – you need to be more organised the night before. Kids lunches made and in the fridge (do it while you are cooking dinner); uniforms laid out (inc undies and socks) and decided on what you are going to wear. It makes for a much less stressful morning.
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Very much a morning person “hello Sunshine!”, alarm goes at 5.30am and I leave for work at 6.30am HOWEVER its just me getting ready, no kids.
My husband always exclaims why do I need a whole hour in the morning!
(note: this did not apply this morning. I will not get out of bed when its 1 degree. No sir!)
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I think the biscuits have too much sugar in them. Won’t be getting them here. I like to sit and eat and drink tea. Civilised.
I start my day about 6am.
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I start work at 7, so am out of bed at 530 five days a week.
You’ll get no sympathy from me!
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We rise early 3 mornings a week for before-school swimming. The 10 year old makes porridge for himself and 2 younger siblings, while I shower, dress etc, and then we go at 7.15am. Lunches, school bags, clothes etc are all packed the night before. I also pack them all an Up and Go to have after swimming, on the way to school. They love it! The kids feel like they’re having a milkshake as a ‘treat’ after swimming. If i buy them on sale they are $1 each, so similar cost to biscuits and other things. On the point of too many activities – I think 2 per term is very balanced! We have a similar rule in our house. And while the before-school rush is manic on swimming days, we love that we have more afternoons free.
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i don’t have kids but i’m up way before that and out of the door… you could say i’m one of those annoying ‘morning people’… i wonder how this will all change when mini-me arrives in 8 short weeks… I’ve got til january to get it sorted, but it’s likely so that he will spend the least amount of time as possible in daycare hubby will do the drop off closer to 8:30 or 9am, and I’ll do the pickup about 2, 2:30…
I agree with other posters that lunches, bags (sorting, filling and finding) should be done the night prior however, that’s how my parents used to roll, and that’s how i’ll be running my household. otherwise they will miss things like excursions and sports days because they’re in the wrong uniform… fact of life in my opinion.
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Three kids (14, 10 and 7) and I get up at 7.45am – no, not a typo! When they all went to public school (9.15am start) it was more like 8.30am. Hubby leaves at 7.20ish and drops the two big kids (their schools are en-route to his work and they both want to be there before 8am) so I usually don’t even see them in the morning. Mean mum huh? I have, though, ensured every single uniform item is laid out, every school bag is fully packed and waiting at the top of the stairs and all school lunches are good to go. The fruit and snacks are in their open lunch boxes on the bench and they just grab their sandwich and whatever else needs overnight refrigeration from their designated basket in the fridge. If anyone is having something that might get smushy overnight it’s in a separate container to be added in the morning or at school. The 14yo makes her own breakfast (as she should) but I usually put out the bowl and spoon for her muesli and yoghurt. Hubby makes Vegemite toast for the 10yo and he (10yo) pours himself a big glass from the jug of banana smoothie that’s always in the fridge.
I’m the ultimate non-morning person and have been since a small child. Luckily the gods blessed me with three babies who didn’t wake before 7am and very often after 8am (once they were sleeping through obviously). I’m not in (paid) work now but when I was I’d allow 20mins to get out of the house pre-kids and 30mins (40mins max) post-kids and I promise it’s very calm and ordered.
My kids do (too) many activities but I’ve, ahem, encouraged them away from swimming, rowing and any others that involve early starts. Saturdays are a bit manic with three games of soccer and one of netball in winter but hubby always does the earliest game (he’s a big morning person – waaay too cheerful and chatty for me) and perfectly happy to do so. We both sleep as late as we want on Sundays, often not rising before 10.30am. The two boys just know to do quiet activities and the teenager usually sleeps later than us. Happy days.
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Awesome. You are now officially my inspiration!!
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Gosh Kate, half of those things you can do the night before. Though it’s amazing when you do, how often OTHER things take over that time in the morning.
I”m not a morning person. I stay up way too late enjoying the silence.
We have before school activities most days. Anywhere from 6.20-7.15 start times.
Plus I have a preppie who can’t be at school before 8. It makes for interesting mornings.
I really do struggle to get out of bed before 6.20 though. Unless I really have to. Despite the children waking anytime from 4am. On days with no morning activites, we leave home at 7.40.
We tried these biscuits. I was looking at an alternative breakfast snack to give the girls between morning activity and school starting. As breakfast before activites doesn’t hold them until morning tea (5.30 brekke, 10.40 m.tea). It needs to be something they can eat fast as they run from one to another.
But they found them way too sweet, plus I think (straining to remember) there may have been some flavours and colours in them that we steer clear off.
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I’m feeling very grateful after reading other people’s early out the door mornings. My alarm goes off at 5.20, up to exercise, shower at 6.45, by then kids are dancing with hunger, brekky for them and me, make lunch boxes, feed dogs, unpack dishwasher, slap on make up, out the door by 8.30.
And that feels like such a rush! How do you do it by 7.15?!!
And why does my sons school start at 9? I wish it was 8.45, he’s in prep so I’m not yet comfortable with dropping him off and he still likes me to wait until the siren goes. But I’m 10 minutes late to work every day. My boss knows why and I make the time up, but I’m sure it drives my colleagues crazy! Pre kids it would have driven me crazy
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I am up before 7 (sounds like a lie in now I’ve read some of these comments!) to get myself and two kids ready to leave at 8.10am. The kids have changed schools this year so we are having to leave an hour earlier than we used to. I have lunches ready the night before but we have a mad panic to find piano books, library books, tennis racquet, sports bags etc. And my 10 year old daughter hasn’t realised just how long it takes her to get ready in the morning so there’s often a bit of a shouting match trying to get her out the door…
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I am not a morning person so everything is done the night before. Lunches packed, bags packed, clothes laid out. If we’re organised it takes us 45mins to get breakfast, dressed and out the door, by 745am if we’re walking to school. That’s with three kids aged 5, 2 and 6mths. Definitely the last thing on my list is my breakfast, but i always take something healthy to eat on the run.
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Our kid has always been an early riser and fortunately the wife and I are both ‘morning people’. Other than school holidays we always eat breakfast together as a family. I have tried the BelVita’s and quite like them, not sure why but they always seem to be on special, good for me prolly not so good for the company.
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My commute is over 90 minutes long from the time I leave the house to when I arrive at work. I wake up at 6 at the latest. Usually I wake up at 5 to exercise first, because I’m not an evening person. I have everything packed up the night before, including breakfast, lunch, dinner organised, exercise clothes and work clothes. I leave the house at 6.45, train to the city. I buy coffee at 8.20 or so and cram my breakfast in at my desk, where I start work at 8.30.
I’m single, no kids. My mind boggles at how much I’ll have to fit in if I had kids as well. I guess the exercising will go down the tubes!
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With kids as well you’d probably have to find a job or a house that meant you didn’t have a 90 minute commute….
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Do not let your children get any good at swimming! 4:30am starts for us 5 mornings each week…it’s cold and dark and we’ve turned into die hards! But apparently I will ‘ruin his life’ if I won’t get out of bed. Then back home at 6:45 to get the 2 girls up, and the hair, lunches, brekky, show & tell selection begins. Upside….I have the fittest, strongest and most disciplined young man I know. But we crash by 8pm each night. And 15% fat in the biscuits rules them out here.
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Love the idea of those biscuits! Who has time to sit and eat. I walk to work, takes me half an hour and I could eat one on the way!
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No kids for us yet but our day starts at 5.45am when the alarm goes off to wake us up for the gym. I’m used to getting up at that time now after having done it for a few years but it’s certainly never a pleasure! I’m hoping the early starts means that when we have kids it won’t be as much of a shock to the system having to get up early for them (waking up at 3am for a feed though is a whole other story!)
My work starts vary between 8.30 and 9.30am – 9.30am is so lovely, I get over an hour to myself at home to leisurely have breaky, watch telly etc. before I have to head to work.
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About those breakfast biscuits though – I bought my partner a pack for him to try when they were on special and I seem to recall them having a fair bit of sugar in them (a google search confirms it is 25g per 100g!). They tasted like sweet buscuits that you’d have for a treat a morning tea. So yeah…not really a healthy breakfast alternative. (Particularly with type 2 diabetes on the rise)
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Until I gave up work last year I had the morning routine down pat.
Up at 6:15am, managed to eat breakfast, read the news, and get one preschool and one school aged child fed, clothed and out the door by 6:50am. Clothes and lunches are organised the night before.
I’m going back to work next year and am now wondering how on earth I’ll be able to get 3 kids out the door by 6:50. I really don’t want to get up before 6am.
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I’m up at 5:30am, at the gym by about 5:50am and out at 7:15am. I then spend about half an hour either sitting at a cafe with a coffee and the paper, or (on the days it’s open) getting fruit/veg for the next few days at the local market (coffee in hand (note the importance of coffee in my daily routine))
. I’m at work by 8am siting at my computer eating brekky that I store in the fridge at work. Luckily work/home/gym is all within a few kms. I’m definitely a morning person – love my early starts (although I become a zombie any later than 9:30pm), plus it means I have the whole late arvo/evening to myself. I should mention that I have to get EVERYTHING organised for my day the night before (gym bag, stuff for work, lunch, etc.) I even put it all in my car so I don’t have to carry it down in the wee hours of the morn (I have tripped over that pesky 9th step too many times to count!) Sometimes I leave a little check-box post it note for myself in the morning (i.e. Dear Nicole, don’t forget your puffer, phone, charger, water bottle, etc.).
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I haven’t done the school rush for many years now … but I’m up at 05:45 when the cat demands his breakfast. Siiiiigh.
But after is a leisurely stroll through the make MOTH’s coffee, feed myself, dress, make my lunch, slap on the warpaint thing and out the door at 7am or later.
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Ha, My two cats wake me up at the crack of dawn too! They actually get up before the kids do and jump all over me demanding I get up and feed them.
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