Nothing is harder than getting up every day to the same frantic routine after a bad night’s sleep or not enough sleep at all. Stress awaits your whole day. You might as well just pull the covers over your head & hide…..or should you?
Granted, daily living with an scheduled schedule is a daunting task, but you are a smart cookie who has mastered much more complicated problems! You can master this too. It just takes a little pre-planning & eliminating the early–morning decision making when your brain is still half asleep. Oh, and one more thing. It takes commitment to make the change from chaos to sanity.
The Night Before
- Pack lunches the night before while cleaning up the dinner dishes. At some point, the kids will need to take this over, with your supervision of course. Getting them involved early on teaches them how to pack a healthy lunch & lets you know from their choices what they like or don’t like.
- Set the table for breakfast after dinner is cleaned up. Get out cereals, bread for toast, get the coffee maker ready, etc.to make starting the day with a good meal a snap. Have a designated time for everyone to eat breakfast so you can start the day together, discussing your day & heading off any last-minute challenges.
- Load up backpacks before bedtime with signed-off homework, signed parent slips, completed homework. Then set them in your Command Center.
The Weekend Before
- Sunday night, choose 5 outfits for the week & line them up in the closet as my nieces do. Then, it’s just a matter of grabbing the next outfit. No hunting, or stressing over what to wear. My sister’s a genius!
Before Your Kids’Alarm Goes Off
- This is the most important. Make sure you are up before your children so you have time to at least shower & maybe get your make-up on. It’s just like being the first one at work. You feel more in control because you are ahead of everyone else & not stressed trying to play catch-up.
This is a repost from 2 years ago but is still vital to follow today.
Don’t beat yourself up if a crazy, unforeseen thing happens to knock your morning off-kilter. It could be worse had you not been prepared & there’s always tomorrow to make it smoother because tomorrow is another day!
How SO Can Help You
SO….we can help you establish the best routines for your family from who handles which tasks to creating Lunch Packing and Breakfast Food Zones. We can help you determine how long you REALLY need to get yourself ready AND get everyone out the door on time. We can help you create a Capsule Wardrobe for easy outfits that make you look and feel like a superstar. We can help create an outfit with that favorite top you don’t know how to wear. We are here to help you reclaim time & peace because Life is Better Stylishly Organized!
