As many of my dear readers know, I am a teacher. *sigh* I now have less than three weeks of vacation left before my first teacher workday on August 9. No more days of sleeping late and spending my afternoons reading, or playing Frontierville on Facebook chatting with my friends on Facebook.
It's time to roll back to reality, so for my "Tackle it Tuesday" I'm tackling a morning routine. I have had charts of morning routines and chores in the past, but lately I've been thinking about tweaking them. Enter the Fly Lady. As she advises, "Baby Steps, Baby Steps". Last night I whipped out a little "Things to Do" dry-erase board from Target's $1 aisle and set out my most basic routine.
My fibromyalgia has to be kept in mind while writing my routines and adjusting my schedule. My goal is to get up at 5:00 a.m. This week, I'll be getting up at 5:25, next week at 5:15, and the week before I go back to work at 5:00 a.m. I'm hoping this will give my body a chance to adjust to a set wake-up time without too much pain.
Here's my basic routine:
- Get up when the alarm goes off and make the bed. (I have a bad habit of laying in bed for another ten, fifteen minutes, trying not to fall asleep and whining about getting up). Since I have my bi-level machine (Darth) for sleep apnea, I know if I get up, empty the water out of Darth, clean the mask, and make-up my bed, it's nearly impossible for me to go back to bed.
- Devotional time / prayer
- Wake up the Princess and get her dressed (Swish & Swipe while I'm waiting on her to get dressed...she's autistic, we don't hurry these things along)
- Exercise (Leslie Sansone - Walk the Walk: 1 & 2 Mile
video)
- Shower & get dressed
What's your morning routine? What's your evening routine?
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