Quarantine Routine: Wake up and have breakfast

Will you go on a trip driving a car with an empty tank?

Probably not, unless you know for sure there is a gas station on your way that is close enough.

Same, will you start your day without having breakfast? No way, right?

It is often said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, that a human body assumes big part of the calories and energy needed for the day during this first meal: the breakfast.

How much of this is scientific truth and how much of it it is not.....that is not important to me. I had my experiences and believe that breakfast is a need that comes immediately in our daily activities. This is why we have breakfast right after waking up.

The menu can be different depending if it is a weekday or a weekend.

During quarantine, but in general during long periods at home (vacation or sickness) it is important to still keep track of the time and structure the days with different activities. Especially young children who do not distinguish yet on their own what time of the day or what day of the week it is, it is important to give them regularity and cycles so that they know exactly what day it is.

As for the breakfast, we eat milk with cereals from monday to friday. And drink water, milk or juice.

We eat something fancier like bread with chocolate cream, a croissant, a pastry or sweet cookies on weekends; while drinking water, milk or juice. This makes the breakfast during weekends special and different from what we have on weekdays. Even luxurious, if the kids don't get the chance to eat sweets too much during the week.

This way, a young child will always be able to tell if it is a weekday or weekend since the very start of the day.

For me it plays a big role not to offer sweets and festive menus too often. We are home to follow rules and preserve health, not to have a vacation.

For further ideas about quarantine, to know how I structure my days, visit the Quarantine daily routine structure article and visit other activities from there. Other than breakfast, there are inspirations for morning and afternoon activities with children.

Daily routine under quarantine

Lovely readers!

It is pretty popular to post about what we do or don't do daily these days. So why not tell you how I structure my days? Of course, every single day there is an exception here or there, but keeping track of a daily timeflow is best.

Since I live in Germany, my daily routine adjusts to local regulations. Different countries or even different regions may or may not be allowed to do what I do on a daily basis.

Especially if you live with kids, it is important to have structure they can stick to, plus being able to have a set time for specific things and do homework or educational activities at least once a day (depending on the age of the kids).

Some items are self explaining, for some other I will explain more into details what that means for us. Feel free to ask questions in the comments section or to contact me on social media for direct questions and suggestions. I would appreciate if there is interest about any of the activities, I can write more posts with detailed descriptions or tutorial videos.

7.30-8.00 Wake up and have breakfast.

8.00-8.45 Do some sport, shower.

8.45-9.15 Preschool activities.

9.15-10.30 Play games at home. / Do chores, shopping groceries.

10.30-11.30 Walk and play in the park.

12.00-14.00 Cook, have lunch, clean after lunch.

14.00-14.30 Watch some television.

14.30-16.30 At home activities.

16.30-17.30 Walk in the park.

17.30-18.30 Dancing.

18.30-20.30 Cooking, eat dinner, tidy up after.

20.30-21.00 Watch some television.

21.00-21.15 Preparing for bed.

21.15-21.30 Goodnight story, sleep.

21.30~ (Adults only, if you don't fall asleep with the kids) Take over some leftover activities / have some time for yourself.

Each time and its activities will be discussed in a separate post. Please click on each timeframe and activity to land on the details page.