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| Marmite on toast all round. It's an acquired taste! A big thing round here is that T is now able and willing to make toasr and marmite himself. |
Part of what I like about reading blogs are the little glimpses into other peoples' lives. I am nosey - yes I know. But I also like the celebrate the ordinary and everyday. Too soon this will all be over, the kids will grow up, leave home and I will be a crazy old woolly hat wearing, catinapram lady, talking to myself. Although probably I will be having to go out to work in my dotage given the way the world is changing! So in the spirit of celebrating the ordinary and being nosey, here are glimpses of our weekday early morning, two weeks ago on a friday to be exact.
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| A quick bit of Cbeebies in slippers and pyjamas |
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| I like my muesli with fruit and yoghurt, the kids like it all separate, so they have cereal, then fruit, then yoghurt. |
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| While I do a nappy change and feed, there's a few minutes for T to do a bit of his new jigsaw |
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| And time for Ittle I to draw |
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| Some of us look a lot cuter than others on the school run |
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| A quick supermarket stop-off for lunchbox smoothies |
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| They may be old and battered but they are comfortable |
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| This is the height of village traffic action, a skip holding up the road |
Soundtrack: Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros is on repeat play in my car.
http://youtu.be/DHEOF_rcND8
It is Little I's favourite song and she shouts to have it played over and over whenever she's in the car. We hear it four to five times before we reach school.
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| Back from school, I have my morning coffee - yipee |
And breathe out....after today we have two weeks of school holidays so no more morning rushing. Hurray.
Now, over to you, please feel free to share your own early mornings, I am curious to know what everone else eats for breakfasr.
I LOVE these types of posts! My mornings consist of pretending I'm still asleep until the alarm goes off. Getting jumped on by the wolf and the cat. Reluctantly getting out of bed (around 7.15am), feeding the cat and heading straight out with the wolf for a wander around the village. Back by 8am for cereal (usually rice krispies although I am partial to Crunchy Nut) and a cup of tea. Feed the wolf and then start work by 8.30am. Phew!
ReplyDeleteI too love these types of posts. I can imagine your early morning wander with the wolf. There is something lovely about being out really early before everyone else. x
DeleteMy breakfast is not that exciting! I just eat cereal and have a coffee while reading the blog posts. OK, maybe the blog posts are exciting. :)
ReplyDeleteI am so nosey that I still like to know that you have cereal and coffee!
DeleteI should have added that I too read the blog posts when I drink my coffee after school drop off.
I love this post! So nice.
ReplyDeletei rarely have any appointments before noon, so my mornings are rather slow. Depending on how late I was working the previous night, I'll start the day with sewing or work and more often than not, a cup of coffee. then an hour or so later, I' ll have cereal for breakfast. preferably with some berries and milk. :-)
I love these replies - how nice to have slow mornings with a bit of sewing time...your day and night sounds so different to mine, I am in bed very early!
DeleteYay for holidays and Marmite. x x x
ReplyDeleteLast year my czech friend tried marmite and her face was a picture of disgust! Hope you have good holidays. xx
DeleteOh, it's fun to hear about your morning routine! How lovely to share your mornings with little ones! I go to work early, so I'm usually out and about before hubs is around. I eat breakfast at work-- if I'm in the office, it's a bagel (don't judge me-- I'm a New Yorker after all, and bagels are a staple of our diet!) and green tea with lemon while I catch up with my emails and paperwork. If we're filming on location, we grab breakfast on the go from a truck that travels with us, so I have grits and egg whites with veggies if I'm having a good day, or bacon-egg-and-cheddar on a roll if I'm having a bad day. A really sleepy day means coffee with milk and sugar-- I try to avoid it, but sometimes I really need the pick-me-up!
ReplyDeleteOoh, I love bagels, though where I live you can only buy supermarket ones which are always a bit stale I think. Your breakfast sounds instantly glamorous to me! I have to admit I don't know what grits are. I have read in books about people eating grits but still not sure. Here grit is the tiny dust and stones you pick out of your knee when you fall over!
DeleteLovely post! I am trying to do better and eat breakfast (not chocolate) this week i have managed cereal with yoghurt and fruit and toast and marmalade.
ReplyDeleteHope the holidays are fun xxx
Your new breakfast resolution sounds good. I always forget to buy marmalade though I do really like it.
DeleteLoved this little snapshot of your morning! Especially the fact that your children like their breakfast separate, so its cereal then fruit then yogurt. Too much! I love a child's sensibility!
ReplyDeleteMy mornings are usually yogurt and granola, or else toast with butter and jam, maybe some fruit. When I'm having a late streak I'll bring the yogurt to work. Sometimes when I'm really having a late streak I buy a ham and cheese croissant on the way to work, or when it's really bad I get a chocolate croissant after I get to work and have time to sneak out the back to buy breakfast. Trying to cut those last 2 out though.
My kids think I am strange to mix my yoghurt, fruit etc up in one bowl!
DeleteI am usually up at six and awake without an alarm clock.I have to have a mug of proper coffee first thing.I have to drink it from my favourite mug and I make it in a pot I have had for about 25 years.If my ground coffee has run out and I have not realised then I am in a bad mood! Then I have a bowl of porridge with apricots in.
ReplyDeleteI am afraid you describe me perfectly..kids left home,not needed and wearing woolly hats with cats in a pram.There could be worse ways to end up in life I suppose.
I too like to have my coffee in my favourite mug and I am very careful not to run out of ground coffee.
DeleteMaybe one day we can be cat pram pushing, woolly hatted ladies together, wandering round Shropshire??
Sounds like a plan to me!
DeleteThanks for sharing your mornings. Ours are also a real scrabble, though, as we try to get two little ones to school and ourselves to the office. We are all up by 7 am. The Mr. showers while I get the children moving and dressed and seated at breakfasts. Then I shower while he supervises breakfast. Then we each grab a child and head out for the school runs. And we're off into another day! I cannot do this scramble without a coffee, but what I eat varies. The children have cereal and/or toast (a tartine!) and usually juice and a bit of yogurt.
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear of someone who has an equal division of labour in the mornings! Mr here leaves for work at 7.40am while we leave at 8.20/8.30, for school so he isn't seen much in the early morning. I am lucky that at the moment I don't have to go onto work as well. I used to arrive at work with baby sick on my shoulder a few years ago!
DeleteLovely view into your Friday morning! ANd what a cute looking Rocket Girl! My mornings are being remodelled, not having anyone apart from myself to get up (usually out of the house before Gary even gets out of bed!) I am trying to get more in a day with an earlier start. I have managed two runs before breakfast (I know it is SO novel for me to spring out of bed, it is likely to change!) & other days I have got into work earlier (to finish earlier). My breakfast changes, but on a weekday currently consists of frozen cherries defrosted in the microwave with yoghurt & muesli .....
ReplyDeleteTwo runs before breakfast? Go the Badger! xx
DeleteSo nice to get a glimpse into your life! That muesli looks yummy! I'm seriously bad at eating breakfast during the week, although I always have tea or coffee! I'd rather snuggle back into bed with my sweetheart for a couple of minutes before I rush to get dressed and leave the house - and at my current internship placement, we actually have breakfast together, nurses, doctors and interns. It usually involves whole meal bread rolls, jam and lotsa coffee... :)
ReplyDeleteLoved this post. I'm nosy too, but more importantly: how wonderful to celebrate the everyday, as you said. We have so many photos of special occasions, when I think what we do daily is just as important, too.
ReplyDeleteI liked OWOP and am looking forward to MMM, because even though it's focus is on clothes, it's really about our daily lives and how our hobbies contribute to them.
I'm in the process of trying to create new habits, but ideally: up early before the construction workers arrive (there's a site next door) to write for an hour, yerba mate and maybe some hot cereal. Prep and pack my lunch and then I hop on my bike to work!