Monday, 07 December 2009
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What's Your Morning Routine?
Happy Monday everyone! We hope you had a great weekend and are off to a great week.
Here's what one Momaroo reader's average morning looks like:
Phew...Busy morning! What's your morning routine like?6 a.m. Wake up with husband, grab robe, stumble to kitchen and make two cups of coffee
6:15 Turn on tv to catch news and weather (to make sure kids dress appropriately for school), husband goes for morning run
6:30 Start making kids' breakfast (usually pull out cereal, raisins, bananas and milk) and lunch
6:45 Wake up kids and get them ready for school (trying to let them dress themselves), husband comes back, showers and gets ready for work
7:00 Kids come down for breakfast, double check their backpacks and make sure they have h/w packed
7:10 Husband comes down we eat breakfast, down coffee and then go over any changes in schedule for the day (meetings, appointments, practices, etc.) together
7:30 Everyone is (or should be) on the way out of the house with backpacks, work bag, lunches, etc. on them (this is also my chance to give my family hugs, kisses, and make sure everyone is somewhat decently dressed for the day
)7:35 Husband heads to work (40 min commute on a good day); I drop the kids off at school
8:00 Back at home ready to attack the mess in the house (laundry, cleaning, organizing etc)
9:30 Try (try being the important word) to take a walk around the neighborhood to clear my mind and keep my hips in check
10:00 Shower, clean myself up, check email and plan out rest of day and what I need to get down before I pick the kids up
11:00 Grab lunch and head out the door to do errands until time to pick up kids from school
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With a six month old, mine varies from morning to morning. Usually he wakes up around 5am to nurse. While I'm nursing him my husband gets up and gets ready for work. Andrew falls back asleep between 5:15-5:30 and him and I sleep till about 8:30. Then it's just sorta whatever needs to be done for the day --- errands, cleaning....etc.
Alarm goes off at 5:00 am.
Husband gets dressed from work and makes coffee while I reach for robe and pack his lunchSit with coffee, reading bible, then newspaper6:00 am. say good bye to husband straighten kitchen and general pick up of living roomlook over school schedule for the day(Homeschool)7:00 am. son comes downstairs wishes me a good morning with a huge hug :)Leave him to wake up to "educational" tv while I head for the shower7:30 a.m. get some breakfastgo back upstairs make bed, take dirty clothes to laundry room and start laundry8:00 call son upstairs to get dressed, make bed, brush teethWatch news while ironing or cleaning bathrooms or both9:00 am start school11:30 or so break for lunchI wake up at 5. Between 5 and 6 I do some reading and prayers, eat my breakfast and hop on the treadmill or in the shower. At 6 or 6:30, I start doing my set housework for the day. At 7, I sit down with a glass of water, check my email, do some reading, finish up any other task that needs to be done or fold laundry. At 8 my daughter wakes up and I get her fed and dressed and then for the next hour and a half we play and watch cartoons. Then she gets a snack, we may go for a walk, and sometimes we color or play some more until lunch.
I have enough trouble getting myself ready in the morning! Sounds like it will be quite interesting once I start having kids!
Husband (when he isn't deployed or on 12 hour shifts) wakes up with me about 5:40. We wake our 3 year old...make a bottle for the baby, feed her while we get dressed, call the 3 year old to the bathroom, fix hair brush teeth, get dressed. He can't dress himself as he has cerebral palsy...then dress baby, give medicine to 3 year old, get backpack and diaper bag, leave the house not later than 6:20...husband buckles kids in. He goes to work. I drive to drop kids off at daycare and then commute 40 minutes to work to teach middle school.
We live for Saturday when we get up with the kids, feed them, and crawl in the bed or on the couch to snuggle as a family and watch cartoons until somewhere between 10 and noon. Then we get up and do wahtever errands we need to.
Alarm goes off at 7 am and I let the dog out and feed him, go to the bathroom and get into some comfy clothes. I'm usually out of the bedroom around 7:10 and I feed the cats and see that my 7 year old is already breakfasted, brushed, dressed and is playing on the computer (she is in love with the game Spore so she wakes up early and gets ready so she can play). I make her lunch and then we chat and play until 7:46 and then get into the car for school. I drop her off at school and am usually home by 7:55. I drink my slimfast and watch tv until 9:25 when I wake up my husband for work. I then have the day to do what I need to do until 2:55 when I go to pick her up from school. It's a good schedule for us :)
We have a pretty good routine: I do breakfast, my husband does lunches. On a good day we can have the whole thing done in 30 minutes. Breakfast is usually cold cereal and some kind of fruit - better than nothing that's for sure. But last week we tried Batter Blaster pancakes and the kids have been begging for them ever since! Nice to give them something hot now that it's getting colder! Plus the organic part makes me feel a little better. Eases any "breakfast in a can??" guilt I might have ;)
DH: Showered and out the door by 5:15
On an ideal day I get up with him, pray, shower, get coffee and mess around online for a bit. By then usually the twins are up and I change them and we hang out until the other kids gradually get up. By 7:30 everyone is up and we eat and do chores. We start school between 8:30 and 9:00 and the rest of the day is entirely dependent on the day's activities, ie. is it a ballet/choir day or drama/PE day and do we have a fieldtrip that day. On the busiest days we're back home again no later than 4:45 starting dinner so it will be ready shortly after DH gets home at 5:15. And then we either settle in or head out for evening activities like sports.
先說年號問題，明朝皇帝在位時間再長， 酒店兼差年號也只有一個，惟獨他特殊，在位總共不過十五年，年號卻有兩個，前一個叫正統，後一個叫天順。倒不是因為他非要搞特權，兩個年號之間， 禮服店是由一大堆可氣的事串起來的。
先說正統朝，差不多是地球酒店打工人都知道的，這麼多的忠良幹才他不信任，偏寵信一個教書先生出身的太監王振， 一幹閹党把國家禍害得烏煙瘴氣。後來瓦剌犯邊，忠臣良將的苦勸不聽，偏聽死太監攛掇，非要御駕親徵， 合法酒店經紀帶著幾十萬人牛氣哄哄出了長城，按說既然親徵你就好好 打啊，他不，走到半道又後悔了，連敵人影 酒店工作都沒見著就撤兵，撤兵麼撤得快點啊，跑還沒跑成，讓人家圍在土木堡包了餃子，稀裏糊塗一場 酒店上班混戰，幾十萬大軍全死 光，連本人也當了俘虜。丟人到如此，實在可氣。
英宗被抓到蒙古高原上去啃生羊肉了， 酒店兼職爛賬總要有人收拾。皇帝讓人綁了，敵人打到家門口了，總不成學宋朝 來個衣冠南渡吧！還好喝酒 有他親弟弟給他收拾，弟弟朱祁鈺繼承帝位，改年號為景泰，可氣的正統朝總算結束了。景泰帝信用 酒店PT良臣于謙，成功組織北京保衛戰打垮敵 人，再運用外交壓力，逼得酒店喝酒 瓦剌把英宗放回來當太上皇，總算不用學宋徽宗那樣客死他鄉。折騰半天，祖宗江山差點丟了不說 禮服酒店，皇位也折騰沒了。這樣的鬧劇，怪不 得別人。
雖是傻事敗事一籮筐，但傻人總算有傻福，雖說皇位沒了， 台北酒店經紀命還是保住了，回來舒舒服服過太上皇的日子倒也 不交際應酬 錯，可他不消停，拉幫結派培植私人勢力，幾年後趁著弟弟病重搞了場“奪門之變”。奪粉味 回了皇位不說，上臺第一件事就是殺掉了功臣于謙。並把當初北京保衛戰 的功臣們來了個大清洗，掌握朝政大權的都是徐有貞、石亨、曹吉祥等一幫姦險小人。雖然過了沒幾年，這幾個人也被明英宗清算，下獄的下獄（石亨），充軍的充 軍（徐有貞） 寒假打工，被殺的被殺（曹吉祥），可明朝的政治氣象，還是一片烏煙瘴氣。
皇位奪回來了，自然就要改年號。於是，明英宗 兼差改年號為天順。從正統年到天順年，打敗仗，殺忠良，寵小人，亂國家，儘是他辦的敗事， 酒店小姐每每讀史到此，不知有多少人氣得 酒店公關直哆嗦。
可正統朝的事畢竟年頭遠了，真正給後 暑假打工世攢下麻煩的，是天順朝。
“天順”麼，按字面意思，自然有風調雨順的意思。 打工從這個意義上說，“天順”朝時代的明朝，運氣還真不 壞，別的且不說，單說綁過明英宗票的瓦剌，那在土木堡創下台北酒店經紀擊敗明朝幾十萬大軍，活捉明朝皇帝偉業的瓦剌首領也先，沒死在大對頭明朝手裏，倒在內戰中被一刀 砍死。到了天順朝時期，瓦剌又和鄰居韃靼打個不停，因此，雖然少了良將於謙，但終天順一朝的邊 酒店境形勢，還算是太平無事。