Sahms - Woodbridge,NJ

I have 4 kids....and have never had a schedule. If I ever try to plan schedules or keep one, something happens to screw it up ;) I gave up. To those that can keep them....I am in awe.

We got up around 8am, took our time eating and getting dressed and then went out for a morning activity around 10am. Baby napped on the go. We came home for lunch at noon, then my older son went to nursery school (3 days a week), or we went on an afternoon outing at 1pm. We came home from our outing or school around 3:30pm, then it was nap time/quiet time for the kids while I did some housework and prepared supper. We ate supper at 5pm. If we had an evening activity we went from about 6:30 to 8pm. Then home to relax until bedtime at 9:30 or 10pm. For my own sanity it was important to spend as much time away from home as possible, or I would go stir crazy. Activities/outings consisted of playgroups, YMCA, museums, library story time, playground, zoo, grocery shopping, bowling, swimming, swim lesons, sports, etc, etc...

Well when my kids were that age:
wake up, nurse, get ready, get the eldest to preschool, come home, nurse, baby naps, I do what I gotta do when baby is napping, baby wakes up, I nurse, interact w/baby, pick up eldest from preschool, come home, feed kiddo, nurse baby, baby naps, I interact/do stuff with eldest, baby wakes, I nurse, run errands/do things with both kiddos. Come home. Make dinner. Clean up all day repeatedly, family eats, I clean up and nurse on demand, play with eldest, do 100 things around the house. Repeat at all other times of day. Nurse/feed/change diapers/bedtime routine, wake to nurse baby during the night, change diapers when needed 24/7, wake up in morning. Repeat.

And then, I am probably forgetting the other 100 other things I do in between that. And you just are flying by the seat of your pants. And everything else in between. OH and also doing things for Husband.

When my kids were babies, they were regular nappers.
My son in the first year, would nap 3 times a day. For example. And they both had regular sane bedtimes.

I did my daily routines, around naps. They did not nap on the go or on the road. They could only nap if at home.
If kiddos did not nap, it was not pleasant.

I loved our routine when I had a baby! Those were precious years. I have 1 child and he's was a very easy baby and a very good sleeper. I hated staying home so we were always out. Most days we had field trips to take - Houston always had a preschool time or reading time at some library, bookstore or at the kid's museum or mall and we'd be out all day. But on a typical day:

I got up between 5-6a, sometimes earlier, to get housework out of the way and have some coffee time.
6-7a everyone else wakes up, gets dressed and eats breakfast
8 - out the door to a park or town square for exercise and outdoor time
10a run errands, shopping
12 lunch
1p home and naps
3 playtime with Mommy or with friends
5 start dinner, baby would be in kitchen with me and progressed from Bumbo, to Jumparoo to exersaucer to puzzles/coloring at the table as the years went by
6 dinner with daddy
7 bath, books and bedtime
8p lights out!

When I was in school I did homework early in the morning, during naps and then after bedtime.

When my kids were that tiny, I learned quickly that the best way for everything to go sideways is to try to have a schedule. Other than consistent time frames for meals and naps, the rest will happen as it happens on an ever changing basis.

Not really a "schedule" it was more of a routine, one that often changed. But in general,
I'd put on PBS Kids for an hour or so after breakfast, while I cleaned up, did a little housework, finished my coffee, etc.
Most days around 10ish we'd head out somewhere, to the park, the pool, library, a friend's house, anywhere we could see people and my preschooler had other kids to run around with. I usually packed lunch, if the weather was dry. And I tried to meet up with other moms as often as possible, because I needed some adult conversation and company too!
After lunch, naptime for the baby, quiet time for the older one (usually he'd be on the couch with a movie) then I'd either rest or do a short exercise video or housework that was too challenging to do while the kids were up, or maybe work on a project or start prepping for dinner, it just depended on what needed to be done that day.
Afternoon, snacks (for all of us!) and the older one would play nearby, baby on the blanket while I did whatever. I always had my older one engaged if it was something he'd enjoy, like working in the yard or helping in the kitchen.
Then dinner, clean up, time with daddy, bath, bed and story/snuggle time.
Of course there was lots of stopping to nurse the baby, kiss boo boos and look (for the hundredth time) at the block tower my son built. But generally that's how our days went.
ETA: also my son started preschool three mornings a week at age three, so that became our "outing" on those days and I had a little more free time to run errands and stuff with only the baby in tow.

Well I am not usually a SAHM except for 8 weeks every summer, which I thoroughly enjoy. Of course there is no school in the summer so there is more spontaneity and relaxed routine.

I'm a little less than 1/2way through a maternity leave for 10 weeks right now. Enjoying extra SAHM mom time this year, thanks to a new baby! A one month old does not have much of his own schedule yet, we are still in "on demand" phase of eating and sleeping. But here is what our day looks like:

7am I get up, get dressed, tend to baby. Dad is up and tending to the 2 older girls.
8am dad and 1st grader leave the house (he drops off) I spend the hour getting baby fed and pre-schooler ready
9am pre-schooler drop-off, baby and I usually have an errand of some sort to run.
10 am or 11am back to house, do some chores, feed baby
12pm pre-schooler pick up. Feed pre-schooler. Let pre-schooler watch a little TV. Clean up after pre-schooler. Feed baby
2pm walk to elementary school to pick up 1st grader.
3pm snacks. Feed baby. 1st grader may watch a little TV
(Dad gets home somewhere in here, making division of responsibilities much easier)
5 pm start dinner. Or start thinking about dinner.
6 pm eat dinner, 1st grade homework
7 pm older kids start baths
8 pm older kids get after dinner snack and start to think about going to bed.

Pre-school is not every day, so if we don't have to do that, the 3 of us do a morning errand in it's place, but less rushed. 1st grader has activities in the evenings at times (scouts, softball, ballet) and we take turns taking her. Infant is the wild card, in between all this he may or may not be sleeping. I do make sure he gets up and eats about 1/2 hour before we will head out the dor to go anywhere (at least for now, while he is still little). In between I clean when I can, play a game or craft or bake with the older ones when I can. With three kids I just have to be flexible and willing to do snippets of work or play when the right moment occurs. The only "have-to's" are the drop offs and pick ups really.