Do you all have an easy morning routine for jump starting your day in your home? I do. There are just some things I do every day, instinctively, after all these years of homemaking! They are little things, but they help set the tone for my day. If I skip any of these steps, I feel like I am behind before I even begin. Of course, I do other things like take a shower, have quiet time, eat breakfast and all that, but these are my specific morning rituals relating to my house:
MINUTE ONE:
Make the bed.
MINUTE TWO:
Open the shades.
MINUTE THREE:
Shut off the porch lights.
MINUTE FOUR AND FIVE:
Unload the dishwasher.
Every morning. Nearly 365 days a year.
How about you?
- What are your morning homemaking rituals and do you follow them every day or do you vary your mornings? What impact do your morning routines (or lack of) have on YOUR day?
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1. Make beds, 2. wipe kitchen bench, 3. pack away odd items on kitchen bench, 4. wipe bathroom floor (after shower), 5. start washing machine………..
My routine is the same everyday.
1 Out of bed 5.30
2.Brush teeth wash face
3.Pull on some clothes and head to the beach.
4.Walk on the beach while my dh has a 2km swim.
5. Home agin, shower, do breakfast and hit the house with cleaning, washing, blah, blah ……boring stuff.
Alison
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This is a good idea. I’ve gained some insight from others routines.
1. Grab blackberry to see what time it is. Wake up to kids asking for stuff.
2. Say good morning, send them back downstairs. Have some prayer time.
3. Come downstairs to supervise breakfast making (my kids are really young!) and start a load of laundry.
4. Wipe counters that I didn’t get done the night before.
5. Open curtains and sit down to breakfast, read Bible to kids while we eat.
I picked up this routine without even realizing it. lol!
Thanks for the inspiration!
Five things I do every morning…
1. Make my bed
2. Open the blinds
3. Make my husband’s lunch
4. Make a pot of tea to drink while having my quiet time
5. Unload the dishwasher
I’ve been unloading the dishwasher at night lately before going to bed and find that I LOVE not having to do that in the morning. I think it’s going to become one of my evening rituals.
And I’m with you, Melissa, and many others – a nicely made bed is one of life’s pleasures and takes so little time. On rough days it’s so nice to think of that comforting place to settle into.
Lorrie
1. Shut off alarm at 6:50.
2. Put on slippers
3. Turn on TV in bathroom while I dress in workout clothes
4. Make bed
5. Check e-mails
6. Go to gym at 7:30
7. Home and breakfast
8. Get dressed for the day
9. Today’s to-do list which is different each day
Isn’t it nice to find comfort in regular, daily rituals?
I love my rituals. When life gets crazy and my routine gets messed up, it actually throws me off my game!
I am learning to keep my routines on the weekends even when my husband is home. It keeps everything smooth and it’s nice for him to see how the house operates when he’s at work.
Oh, Melissa! Am I glad I found your blog. Hmmmm…..I get out of bed, potty, take out the puppies, pour a cup of coffee…sit at the puter and check in with my blogging friends! Then….pray, stretch….shower and dress…..head to my studio to work!!
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It’s funny you should write this today, because just this week I have decided on a morning routine. I make coffee for myself and my husband, give my son his juice and his breakfast, unload the dishwasher, make my bed, and start a load of laundry. I have found that getting moving (instead of just sitting on the internet like I used to do) really helps me to get a lot more accomplished during the day.
Lindsays inspiring blog post..Much ado about Valentine’s Day
My morning routine goes like this:
Use toilet/swish & swipe
Oral care/swipe face basin
Drink water/refill water bottles
Get dressed/Swish boys toilet(they do the rest of the bathroom themselves as part of their chores)
Take dirty clothes to laundry area/Start washer
Spiritual disciplines (prayer and the word)
I’ve never timed it so I’m not sure how long it takes. Writing this made me realize I need to change my schedule in my sidebar to reflect what I’m doing now.
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First, I would love to see what your whole day looks like! When I read this post in my reader this morning it inspired me to do a lot of cleaning.
Anyway… on a typical day, if I get up when my husband gets up. I make breakfast. Go on the computer. Make a latte. Eat breakfast.
On a good day. I make breakfast, do some laundry, dishes, straighten something out, make my bed, make a latte, go to the gym and run errands. Go on the computer. Not within 5 minutes, but before 10 am.
On a bad day. I wake up make a latte and get on my computer.
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I’ve been reading so often about making the bed as soon as one gets out of it…but I feel it’s a good idea to allow the bed to air out. Studies I’ve read indicate that we excrete water (sweat) while sleeping even if we don’t get hot under the covers… ha!… To make the bed up right away seals in that moisture and insures a stale bed. Any thoughts on this from other readers?
I’m so glad the subject of making a bed came up. I don’t have a blog site, but if I did, I would ask….is there anyone else out there as OC as I am about the bed?! No bumps, coverlet must hang straight, pillows just right, the comforter on “just so”. If for some rare reason the bed wasn’t made during the day, I make it just to get back in it! Can’t crawl into an unmade bed! So….am I looney?
My routine is bathroom, wash face, put on makeup, make coffee, sit down with computer and catch up on blogs, devotionals, get dressed and then go to work. Sure wish I could just stay home and play house!
The bed is #1 “chore” of the day. While it may be good to air it out, it is better for me to see it made up with pillows in place, etc. Besides I would want to and might just crawl in it if left all open. It also sets my mental outlook for the day. I don’t do well in disorder. I also open blinds, care for the cats, bring in newspaper, these are all done on auto pilot, then I proceed with preparing for the new day,
I LOVE your site and can’t wait to meet you in Nashville. Thanks.
My routine: make my bed, sweep, wash breakfast dishes, pick up anything that my husband left laying around.
Your site puts a little inspiration in my day! Love it!
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…my goodness!! i am absolutley amazed at how many of you do ANYTHING before you have coffee…i wake up plug in coffee…take the dog out…come in…sit down with coffee and prayers …call my precious elderly mom to make sure she is ok…open the curtains…check emails to make sure the rest of my grown family is well(and hope that there are new pictures of the most adorable baby grandboy who ever lived)…make the bed as soon as my husband wakes up and has his coffee…i am much more flexible after almost 38 years of marriage…now i actually wiat for him to get out of the bed…and then the rest is whatever happens….i like my life…and i just love this blog….blessings
1. Make the bed
2. Shower/get ready for the day
3. Get breakfast ready for the kids
4. Unload the dishwasher (while kids are eating breakfast)
5. Put a load of clothes in the washing machine/switch clothes to dryer/unload dryer/fold and put away load from dryer
6. Finish making lunch /load car
At the stage of my life (3 children 4 and under) my morning routine consists of simply surviving. I know there will come a day when I can have a more productive routine in the morning, but for now, I feel like I’ve accomplished something when everyone has clean clothes on and a healthy breakfast in their tummies.
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The ottman in Minute 2 is perfect. Do you know where I can find it?
Coffee…always coffee…some days the Keurig 1 cup if I’m leaving in 20 minutes for a 5:45 spin class…and that’s about all I do on those days : let out the pups, throw on my bike shorts and a shirt and hat and start the coffee
But other days when I’m leaving for the gym later I let out the pups, crank up the computer, start the coffee (in the pot on these days), make the bed and hit the porch light…hummmm, this makes me think I could do more on these mornings before I leave the house. I need to plan better! thx~
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I have found that a good night time routine helps make the morning easier. When getting up to a fairly clean house and I am more motivated to keep it nice then if I have to spend all morning cleaning up from the day before.
I think organization is really all about maintenance. Not letting things get too crazy works best for me.You have to really want it and then do the work. It is actually easier to have the routine than to go about it haphazardly. Good habits help. The one thing that can completely derail me is the computer because I love to write early in the morning.
Most days I try to get the other stuff done first. Make the bed first thing, put laundry in after showering and dressing, pickup. I like everything to be fairly orderly then it opens my mind to being more creative. I empty the waste baskets and then go to the computer. It doesn’t take too long to get it all done and it starts the day off pretty well.
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