Rules:
- Please
post the rules.
- When
answering the questions, please give as much detail as possible!
- Leave a comment on Sex, Drugs, Rocker
and...Stroller, baby, so we can keep track of the meme and I can totally steal
your routine tips to make my world a happier place.
- Also if
you want (and I'd really like you to!) add a little paragraph at the bottom to
give a general summing up about your weekly routine!
- Tag 3 or more people and link to them on your blog.
- Tweet tweet tweet #howdoyoufindthetimetomeme
Here are the questions...
How and when do you find the time to...
....do
your laundry?
I try and do this at least once a day, but it
doesn’t always happen. We keep our dirty
laundry in the kitchen, so it’s easy for me to bung it in when I get time. Sometimes it’s when Aled is at school;
sometimes it’s when I’m cooking the tea!
One of PJ’s chores is normally to empty the washing machine into the
tumble drier, so I ask him to do this when he gets home from school when I
remember.
....write a blog post?
This is usually done while Aled is at school. Some mornings I do get caught up in other
things, in which case I may do it during the afternoon. Quite often I have drafted something up in my
head before writing it down. For my Week
That Was posts I take advantage of my desktop ‘sticky notes’ and jot down notes
to remind me what I have been up to.
....look after
yourself...i.e. wash your hair, paint your nails, take a bubble bath etc?
This depends on the day and what I have planned. More often these days I end up just having a
quick shower in the morning or before my evening job, so to have time for a
bubble bath is a real treat!
....spend time with
your other half?
This is something that seems to be getting less and less at the
moment. I work 1-2 evenings a week and
during the day over the weekend. Hubby
is also a Scout Leader on a Friday and I will be starting back up with my darts
team on a Tuesday. That only really
leaves us with Monday and the weekend evenings to spend any quality time
together. We try to do something like
watch a movie together (with our 13 year old!) on these nights.
....do fun stuff with
your LO?
I am home with the two little ones during the day. Aled goes to nursery in the mornings and Noah
goes to crèche every Wednesday and Thursday mornings, so we generally have the
afternoons together. With the summer
coming up I am hoping on more trips to the park with the two little ones.
....spend time with
family?
I usually get to see my mum about once a week. Mostly she will come to us as it’s easier
than dragging all of the kids out, but we sometimes go to visit her. My littlest sister lives and works with my
mum, so we see her quite often as well.
I see my other sister less often, but usually every couple of
months. All of hubby’s family live back
home in Wales, so we only get to see them every few months.
....socialise with
friends?
Socialise, what’s that?? In just
over a weeks’ time the dart season starts up and I have just joined a women’s
darts team. I am really looking forward
to this as it is an opportunity to get out on a social level. Other than that, I don’t go out very
often. Over the last year or so due to
various circumstances, I do feel that I have become a bit estranged from my
‘real life’ friends and don’t see much of them anymore.
....prepare an evening
meal juggling a baby/toddler bedtime routine?
The evening meal I try to wait until PJ gets home from school and has
chance to do some homework. I normally
start cooking about 5pm. On really organised I will prepare a meal
in the morning and chuck it in the slow cooker.
The little ones bedtime is usually done by hubby. That is their time together. They go to bed at about 7pm. On the nights that I work I leave at 6.30, so
hubby does it all. Other nights I
usually get the kids pyjamas on and mostly hubby does the bedtime story. When hubby does the story they get an
interactive one on the iPad, but when I do it they get a ‘normal’ book.
....deep clean your
house?
Sorry, what now?? I must admit, I
hate cleaning with a passion. The toys
get tidied away every evening after the little ones have gone to bed and the
vacuum goes on every few days (more if needed).
The dishwasher gets done daily and the kitchen sides are wiped down, but
too be honest, that’s really about it unless it really needs it.
....do the food
shopping?
Up until recently this was always done online, however, over the last few
weeks I have found it a bit of a routine of me and Noah going to Iceland on a
Tuesday morning while Aled is at school and then get the shopping delivered in
the afternoon.
....bulk ironing?
Ha, after reading the other answers do you really
think that I bulk iron?! Ironing is done
as and when it’s needed. I try to hang
up stubborn clothes when they come out of the tumble drier so that they are not
too bad to iron.
So, there we go.
I am going to tag…
Have fun ladies!
Jackie. x
