Best Establishing a routine

I experience similar my kids send ameliorate in addition to are all together happier when they are given administration in addition to know what to expect. Lately I guide maintain been trying to honor the best daily routine that volition assist things expire every bit smoothly every bit possible. Without a routine things tin instruct awfully chaotic around here! And alongside the fourth dimension alter in addition to alongside days getting shorter, nosotros pass most belatedly afternoons in addition to nights indoors then guide maintain had to brand some adjustments. After trying some dissimilar things (what to create correct when the kids wake up, when to cease play time, when to fix dinner, what to guide maintain the kids create correct afterwards dinner, correct before bed, etc), I guide maintain lastly constitute a routine that plant best for us. For at in ane lawsuit at least! It seems similar whenever I experience similar I guide maintain things downwards something happens in addition to my basis is turned upside downwards again... similar what we'll live bringing dwelling family 4 months from at in ane lawsuit :)

Here's what our daily routine looks like:

* Read books to whoever wakes upward outset until some other lilliputian trunk joins us
* Breakfast
* Clean upward breakfast spell the kids play
* Get dressed, brand bed
* At this point, upward until dinner, our days vary a lot in addition to are real flexible. Sometimes we'll come across upward alongside friends for a playgroup, expire to the library, expire to the grocery store, play inwards the basement spell I practice or move on some project, expire to the commons (although our commons days are virtually over... sad!), color, play alongside playdough... whatsoever nosotros necessitate or desire to do
* John goes to schoolhouse from 11:45-3:30. Joe takes a nap in addition to I instruct some ane on ane fourth dimension alongside Dan... reading books, doing puzzles, making preparations for dinner, baking cookies or bread... I quite relish this fourth dimension of day!
*Dinner around 5:30 or 6. I've been trying to create all the prep move in addition to cleanup before inwards the afternoon then that all I guide maintain to create for dinner is lay something inwards the oven or opened upward the crockpot. This has helped a TON. The kids are ordinarily a lilliputian tired in addition to e'er hungry correct before dinner in addition to need a lot of my attention. Being prepared for dinner is belike the matter that has helped the most alongside things running smoothly at night. Especially since I'm ordinarily on my ain (Pete hasn't been getting dwelling family until seven or 8... hence the necessitate for a skillful routine!)
*After the kids convey their dishes to the sink they caput downwards to the basement or wherever they've been playing all twenty-four hours to construct clean upward spell I construct clean upward dinner. This is every bit good some other business office of our routine that has worked GREAT. We ordinarily move into a race, in addition to the kids guide maintain expire mighty fast!
* Pajamas
* Brush teeth
* Read books (John has to read 20 minutes each twenty-four hours for school)
* Read scriptures
* Say prayers
* To bed! Phew! If I tin instruct the kids to bed past times viii I consider it a success. That leaves two hours or then for me in addition to Pete. Then it's off to bed for me in addition to fourth dimension to create it all over again!

What things create yous guide maintain inwards your routine to assist things run smoother?