Whats your SAHM life and exercise schedule?

enyo123

Baby wakes up around 5:30 am for a feed. While she feeds, I drink a glass or two of water and read MFP success stories for motivation. Get her down, and then start working out until 7:15-7:45 am. Wake the husband up at 7:20 unless a kid starts complaining while I'm working out. Then he gets to do it.

Post workout, I go make protein shakes for breakfast for me and the hubs while he gets our two year old up and changed. Our two year old is usually up, awake, and playing in his room by this time. Toddler boy eats breakfast while husband and I drink shakes. I get a shower, hubs gets dressed. Baby wakes up, feed again.

When he's gone, I get the housework done, read to the toddler boy, play with the baby girl, and usually take the kids to the park and a dog on a walk/mini hike through the trails near my house. (I have an all-terrain stroller that has a doubles attachment. Two kids in the stroller and a dog on a leash.) After that, drop the dog back off at the house and take the kids to the playground. I run around with the two year old for 5-30 minutes. He lets me know when he's done by walking out the gate of the park and climbing into his stroller.

In that time, I also bake a loaf of bread once or twice a week. When the husband gets home, we do dinner. If I didn't take the kids to the park during the day, I'll take the kids and dog out so that the husband can have some alone time to get his own workout done. After I'm back from that, I'll leave the kids with the husband for their baths and take our other dog out for a walk. (I have a chihuahua and a border collie/husky cross. I can walk the chihuahua when I push the stroller, but not the border collie.) The only cleaning that happens after the husband is home is finishing loading the dishwasher and running it before bed.

I have this worked where I usually burn 600-1000 calories a day. The husband manages to do about the same. :-)

laynunugawa

I am a SAHM of a 6yr and 2 1/2yr old, both girls.
I get up at 545am and help my kindergartner get ready for the school bus. The 2yr old is up by 7 so I have breakfast with her.
I spend some time with her and do most of my house stuff.
Hubby works down the street so he comes home for lunch around noon.
After he leaves I take my kid to the park or some kind of activity then head home by 3pm to get the other kid from the bus. I play with them for an hour and help the 6yr old with homework.
I start getting dinner ready by 5-6pm. When hubby gets home I go to the gym and do an hour of cardio or weight training and then get home for a late dinner.
By this time its story time and night night for the girls, usually by 830pm. I clean up or just watch TV and go to bed by 10pm-12am.

Yes my life is boring but it is all about routine and getting your body use to exercising that you will eventually miss it and go back to it.

emily356

I have a 1, 4, and 6 year old and I homeschool, so they are all with me all the time. My 4 year old is up by six EVERY morning!!! It is rough sometimes. I get up and start prepping breakfast for us all. I spend much time cooking cause I like things, especially for my kids, that is real food, plus two of them have food allergies. I do school with the oldest all morning and if she gets done early enough we all go for a walk. After lunch, everyone goes down for nap/quiet time. My oldest reads books or rests, and the younger ones nap. I sit down for a few minutes, then workout, shower and have a snack. I have to try and be quick to fit it all in. I usually make the older ones only lay down for 30min to an hour, then let them watch a movie while I finish my shower and such. Then it is time to start prepping for dinner. I don't do workouts in the morning cause my husband leaves for work about 6am. And in all of this, throw in the ususal, laundry, kitchen cleaning multiple times a day, breaking up a dozen arguments, getting the toddler off the table, changing diapers, talking to my mom or a friend on the phone, and a million other things!!!:D

bethdris

I stay home with 3 boys...ages 2,3,5....This is our typical day (in the fall it will change when my 5 yr old goes to kindergarten)

6:00 everyone wakes up..(yes, I have none who like to sleep in yet)

7:00 breakfast and throw in a load of laundry

8:00 playroom for the kids, I clean up breakfast, and prob run the dishwasher

9:00-10:00 we go for a walk, (this is my exercise daily)...I have 2 in the stroller and my 5 yr old wallks/runs with me.

10:00-11:00 coloring drawing, or the park

11:00-12:00 Lunch (and another load of laundry..never ending)

12:00-12:30 they get to watch a cartoon while I clean up lunch dishes and turn over laundry

12:30-2:30 Rest/nap time (my fav time of day)! While they are napping I clean, dust, vacuum,tidy and whatever else needs to be done.

2:30-4:00 errands, and dinner prep

4:30ish dinner

5:30-baths, clean up, (oh yea more laundry)

6:00-7:00 quiet play, puzzles, games etc and clean up of playroom

7:30 bed time for the kids...(although they dont usually go to sleep right away. (each child has toys in their room, if they aren't yet tired)

After they are in bed, I do whatever clean up is needed, and get ready for the next day.

4thehardman

Monday to friday I get one run per day. Either at 6am before the children get up or at 8pm when my husband gets home from work. 3-4 days a week I also do 25 minutes of Cardio Max with the Bob Harper DvD. Usually when I do this I have the children in front of a movie. It is the only TV they get during the week so its no problem getting them to sit down.
Otherwise my days look like this.
In the mornings the kids and I do our chores. This is general cleaning and tidying and takes the 5 of us about 1h 30. For me it is important that the children know that they have responsibilities in the house. After that we all have a late breakfast. We all eat oatmeal with fruit for breakfast but non of us enjoy eating first thing so we do our chores first.
After breakfast we wash and get dressed.
Usuall in the morning is when the children are most active so I like to get them out of the house. If it is raining we will go 'puddle jumping' and down to see the ducks. We sometimes go swimming or hiking when it is wet (in the winter we ski most mornings)
If it is sunny we pack a light lunch and head up the mountain. I'm enjoying teaching them about the local plants and trees so we do this often. Sometimes we go with the bikes or scooters. Sometimes we drive to the lake to walk and swim.
Lunch
In the afternoons we will sit in the garden doing art or reading. Sometimes we go horseriding or to the park. We have started our own vegetable patch and the children enjoy that.
At around 5pm, if needed, we go to the supermarket for supplies etc.
We eat supper together at 6pm (ish)
After supper the children are bathed, this is a big deal because they fight about who goes first. Whilst the baths are being taken the other kids play in the playroom.
Once baths are done they play quietly. I usually put up the ironing board in the playroom and do my ironing.
At bedtime they have 30mins reading time by themselves whilst they wait for their Dad. I cook his dinner during this time.
He reads one book to the triplets and then one for Sophs.
He eat dinner. If I haven't done my run then I do it at this time.
He watches TV and I spend around 1-2hrs finishing chores and cleaning. We go to bed together at around 9:30pm and read and chatter until we fall asleep.

At weekends we have Childrens church on the Saturday morning which works because my husband usually sleeps in until 11am on both weekend days.
We eat all of our meals as a family at the weekends and we always do something together on Sunday afternoons.

Thats it really. Oh and my kids are 3yrs and 4yrs old. (3 of them are 3 years old)

Your life sounds pretty perfect.

For me it is. I'm a very happy person and I'm grateful for what I have. It has taken a long time to get to this place but I hope I can stay here a while! Lol