If you don’t already know, I’m a mom of two boys – Rafe (4) and Vance (14 months). Rafe goes to daycare Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and Vance stays home with me full time. I also run my own fitness and nutrition coaching business from home.

Today I’m walking you through how I fit it all in – workouts, daily walks, mobility work, cooking, client check-ins, content creation – without completely losing my mind.

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The Foundation: Morning Routines

My mornings are the backbone of everything. My husband Erik has to leave by 5:15 am, so the days I go to our public gym I’m up at 3:45 am,or 4:30 am on home workout days. Because someone always asks, I’m in bed by 8–9 pm every night.

My standard morning routine includes tongue scraping (hear me out – it makes a real difference), water with creatine and lemon, coffee, a pre-workout carb like an English muffin or toast with almond butter, and the Daily Audio Bible app playing in the background. On slower mornings, I also journal and read before working out.

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Monday, Wednesday, Friday – Daycare Days

These are my most productive days. I wake up at 3:45, head to the gym and work out until 5:10, and screech home just in time for Erik to leave for work. The gym is genuinely my outing – my adult interaction, my reset for the week. So yes, to me it’s worth the 3:45 alarm.

After the gym, I film a few exercise clips at home to post to stories, do mobility work if I have time, and get the boys up between 6–6:15. After dropping Rafe at daycare around 7:30, I work during Vance’s nap windows – typically 9:30–10:30 and again 12:30–2:30. Client check-ins, Instagram posts, emails, and app management all happen in those blocks.

The afternoon is sacred: we pick up Rafe before 3, come straight home, and head out on our 2.75-mile walk – me, Rafe, Vance, and our dog Sully. Rafe brings his YotoMini (seriously, one of the best purchases we’ve made), I put in my headphones, and we each get our version of alone time while still being together. It’s one of my favorite parts of the day.

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Tuesday and Thursday – Both Boys Home

Tuesdays are a slower start – I sleep in until 4:30 and do a longer morning routine including Bible reading and journaling before working out at home. We take our morning walk around 9–9:30, do lunch, and then the boys have nap and quiet time from 12–2 or 1–3. I use that window for building training programs, writing posts, or podcast work.

Thursday is my favorite day of the week.

At the start of the year I introduced “Homemaker Thursdays,” and it’s genuinely changed my life. Every Thursday morning, I use my Brick device to lock myself out of all social media and work apps for a full 24 hours. No Instagram, no Gmail, no Voxer – nothing until Friday morning. The only exception is checking in on my 1:1 clients once (from my laptop).

What I do instead: a home workout, a longer walk that includes a playground stop, cooking, actual house tasks I enjoy doing with my hands, and 30 minutes of reading on the couch during nap time. I set a timer. I kick my feet up. I do nothing productive. It sounds small, but it’s become one of the most restorative things in my week.

Thursday feels more like a Sabbath to me than Sunday does. When I’m dragging mid-week, I remind myself: Thursday is almost here.

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Friday

After the gym and dropping Rafe at daycare, Fridays are newsletter days. I sit in the boys’ room while Vance plays and write my weekly newsletter – it’s where I go deeper on life, health, and business than I do anywhere else. (Join here if you’re not already subscribed.)

The second half of Friday mirrors Monday: client check-ins during Vance’s nap, afternoon walk after Rafe pickup, and the same evening routine.

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Weekends

Saturday mornings I sleep in until around 5:30, do an extended morning routine since Erik is home, and often go on a 6-mile run (shift this to Sunday if I’m fatigued or if the weather looks better). After that, it’s unscheduled family time – pancakes, walks, backyard play, early dinner.

Sunday is church, family time, and an afternoon walk together. Erik and I are working toward a truer Sabbath on Sundays – shifting Sunday Reset tasks like grocery shopping and meal prep into Saturday instead. Still a work in progress, but we’re chipping away at it.

I also block social media on my phone from Saturday night through Monday morning, every single week. I’ve done this for a few years now and it’s one of the best habits I have.

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The Honest Part

Every single day there is a moment I wish I’d handled something differently – a moment of frustration with the kids, impatience on a slow walk, or the mental load of running a business while keeping a 14-month-old off the kitchen table.

None of this is a highlight reel. I don’t post the days where I end up in tears because motherhood is just hard sometimes, and we all know those days exist. What I hope this shows is that routines and rhythms don’t eliminate the hard stuff – they just give you a container to hold it.

You really can do it all. Just not everything all at once.

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