Having three kids has made life…busy. I always tell people that I don’t feel like it was necessarily a hard transition, I just feel like I am a lot busier and never slow down. It may be the fact that I have three kids all in different phases and seasons of life, or it may just be that there is more of us, but it has made settling into a daily routine difficult. I have had this constant game of trial and error while trying to figure out what pattern worked for all of us. Being a work at home mom has made it even more challenging because I have to work. It seems as if a daily routine for a work at home mom is ever changing.

Sometimes when trying to figure out a daily routine, it helps to sit down and actually put your time on paper. I’m not usually a planner, I am spontaneous by nature, but I have realized that not taking control of my time allows it to get away from me. Quite literally. So when evaluating my priorities and where my time is being spent, sitting down and writing it all out can make a huge difference. So I sat down recently to look at our time and I think I have finally figured out a routine that works for us.

I have a preschooler, a toddler, and an infant, so I have been working on juggling their schedules and falling into a pattern in between. The baby loosely follows the same routine day to day. He is usually up around 7/7:30 and naps two hours after he wakes up for 1-2 hours, and repeats that same pattern. Awake for two hours, naps for 1-2 hours, and awake again. The toddler only takes an afternoon nap and I put her down the same time as the baby. The preschooler, however, is no longer napping so he has been the curve ball in the equation. It has been important to me to work on some preschool work at home with him, and we were doing that immediately after the other two laid down, but I had to move that time due to some other priorities (more on that soon). Like I said, it’s been a juggling act.

Below you can find three posts with the different routines for the kids:

Baby + Toddler Routine

Toddler + Preschool Routine

Toddler + Preschool Routine (part two – baby down to one nap)

At this point, this is what my routine looked like. But you can sign up for my newletter below to see a few different versions of my routine over the last two years as the kid’s schedules have shifted. Mostly, my work times just moved around as the baby’s naps shifted.

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