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Now I seem to have my weekly routines a bit more organised, it’s time to focus on the daily routines. I need to be out the door by 8:30am on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and so I’m going to work on getting out of the house by 8:30am every day.

So this is what needs to happen before I walk out the door in the morning:

1. Get dressed
2. Wash face/moisturise
3. Turn the coffee machine on and make a cup (and one for Hubby if I’m feeling nice)
4. Empty the dishwasher & put clean dishes away
5. Start the first load of washing
6. Breakfast
7. Get kids dressed
8. Pack everyone’s bags
9. Cleanup the kitchen from breakfast
10. Hang out one load of washing and start another.

The reason there’s no shower on that list, is that Monday, Wednesday and Friday I shower after swimming either at the pool or when I get home. Thursday is cleaning day, so I’ll sower after most of the work is done and while I clean the shower. Tuesday is the only odd day, and I can shower whenever I like.

The mornings between 8:30am and noon are variously taken with swimming, study and cleaning. From noon to about 4:30pm, I plan on working through this list:

1. Lunch
2. Read & reply to emails
3. Check Internet forums
4. Any extra daily jobs that are needed (tidy bedrooms, make beds for example)
5. Bring the washing in
6. Fold washing & put away
7. Uni work
8. Read blogs
9. Extra tasks - phonecalls etc
10. Reading (newspaper, magazines, books)

From 4:30pm to 7:30pm is major family time. Start & cook dinner, pick up kids, Hubby home, reading mail, eating dinner, showers, baths, bedtime stories, packing lunch boxes, running the dishwasher, cleaning up all sort of run into each other.

There are a few tv progams I like to watch. 4 in total, and only 3 are showing new episodes at the moment, so Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights I lose an hour of after-dinner time to Brothers & Sisters, Good News Week and NCIS. But from 7:30 til 10:30, and around those tv shows, I’d like to again, work through these things:

1. Blog
2. Blogging promotion
3. Read and reply to emails
4. Check Internet forums
5. Wash face
6. Reading
7. Bed

I’m hoping that’s enough time to get everything done. I’m trying this plan this week so I’ll give it a couple of weeks before tweaking things that don’t seem to work. What sort of daily routines do you have?