What Is Your Morning Routine?

After getting up brushing my teeth and washing my face...I get my dog walking clothes on drink one glass of hot water with lemon sometimes with honey and Ginger and then we go and walk the dogs anything between 4 and 10 km.
When we get home I have a proper shower wash my hair then I upload my photos from the day see what I've captured.

I always shower first followed by breakfast, some days better than others. Jump on here while eating. Then I brush my teeth get dressed do my hair and do my makeup, not as much these days wearing a mask.

2 cups of coffee.....ummmm......

This morning I have put on a load of laundry. I have also taken out the rubbish & recycling and am airing out my apartment. I am working on my computer, too. I have also drunk my caffetterie coffee this morning. Drinking coffee is my morning routine. I will shower later this morning and put on another load of laundry.

I am very organized.

Wow, thats a quick bath Annie. How do you do it?

I couldn't imagine at all a 10 minute bath. It would be a world record...

That's right too. I walk every morning.

This past week has been wonderful walking weather and the light is absolutely gorgeous. Yesterday the morning sunlight turned everything to gold.

Tomorrow we are having a morning off and we are taking the dogs to a nature reserve nearby it's marshland with lots of little bridges that connect all the different islands and there is always so much to see there I'm really looking forward to it.
It's about 8 km but we wander around our own pace and enjoy everything there is to see.

I've been enjoying a few quiet moments when I first wake up, so I open up the YouVersion app for a daily Bible verse, prayer, and sometimes a bit of online news, too. Then I'm awake enough to make breakfast (usually an egg and a piece of toast, with a fruit that contains lots of fibre). I haven't been rushing the kids downstairs to breakfast lately, so I get to have a quieter time while I'm making and eating my own breakfast. Then I remind the two younger boys it's time to eat (though they're starting to realise this themselves some mornings).

We wash dishes after breakfast, then I help the youngest with anything in his routine that he can't do by himself. (Brushing his teeth and his hair, for example.) I've found that my hair behaves best if I wash it every day, so I do that next, which is also before the middle guy has his bath on a few of the mornings each week. I get the boys to be in separate rooms for the end of my daily prep because it's super frustrating to be halfway through getting dressed and having to stop to tell them not to fight or run or yell that early in the morning! Separated, they're generally quiet as they read or draw.

On weekday mornings, I have a Bible study book on the go, so I read and write in the journal section before it's time to make fresh muffins. (This will move earlier as the temperature increases near the start of summer. I'll probably do the baking right after I eat breakfast.)

After the muffins are in the oven, it's finally time to start thinking about school topics or whatever it is I want to do on a weekend morning (including kids' church videos on Sunday).

Whew, sounds like a lot, doesn't it? This is why I don't book appointments earlier than 9 or 10 am!