It can be helpful to see how women before us scheduled their days. Below are schedules used by some Titus 2 women of the past:
Christine Frederick's Daily Schedule:
Rise 6:30 a.m.
Breakfast 7 o'clock. Dress little boy; scrape and carry dishes to kitchen; air beds.
Baby's bath 7:30 a.m.; the baby naps from 9 to 10 A. M.
Wash dishes, plan meals, cook, and prepare for dinner, 9 to 10 A.M. (Little boy plays on porch)
Make beds, sweep, dust, 10 to 11 am. With the baby if awake.
Prepare for luncheon, sew half an hour while playing with the children, 11 to 12.
Lunch with both children at noon. Leave luncheon dishes unwashed, so as to nap an hour at once with children, uninterrupted.
Dress self and children at 2 p.m.; go on walk, market or make a call.
Home again, 5 p.m.; give children supper, start own
Eat supper. Give children bath, put them to bed at 6o'clock.
Have own supper alone with father. 6:30 p.m.
Wash dishes, and while doing them, prepare cereal, fruit, tend the baby's gruel for the "fireless cooker." Finish about 7:30 P.M.
A ONE WEEK SCHEDULE FOR A FAMILY OF FIVE
MONDAY
6 :00-6:30 Rise and dress ; start water heater
6:30-7:00 Prepare breakfast
7:00-7:30 BREAKFAST
7:30- 8:30 Wash dishes ; straighten kitchen ; inspect icebox ; plan meals for Monday and Tuesday
8:30-9:00 Prepare towards lunch
9:00-10:00 Bedrooms, bath and hall cleaned; sort and prepare soiled linen and laundry
10:00-11:00 Thorough downstairs cleaning
11:oo-11:30 Rest period
11:30-12:00 Serve lunch
12:00-1:00 LUNCH
1:00-3:00 Lunch dishes ; prepare cooking for Monday and Tuesday; mop kitchen
3:00-4:00 Sewing and mending
4:00-4:30 Soak clothes and prepare for next day's washing
4:30-5:30 Rest period; play with children ; walk, recreation or market
5:30-6:00 Prepare supper
6:00- 7:00 SUPPER
7:00-7:30 Wash dishes
TUESDAY
6:00-6:30 Rise and dress: put on boiler
6:30-7:00 Prepare breakfast
7:00-7:30 BREAKFAST
7:30-8:00 Stack dishes ; make beds
8:00-11:30 Washing
11:30-12:00 Rest period
12:00-1:00 LUNCH (prepared day before)
1:00-2:30 Wash breakfast and lunch dishes ; clear up laundry
2:30-4:00 Take in clothes: fold, sprinkle, lay away
4:00-5:30 Rest period
5:30-6:00 Prepare supper
6:00-7:00 SUPPER
7:00-7:30 Wash dishes
WEDNESDAY
6:00-6:30 Rise and dress; start water heater
6:30-7:00 Prepare breakfast
7:00-7:30 BREAKFAST
7:30-8:30 Wash dishes; inspect icebox; plan meals; start lunch
8:30-9:00 Make beds; light cleaning
9:00-12:00 Ironing
12:00-1:00 LUNCH
1:oo-2:00 Finish ironing; put away clothes
2:00-3:00 Wash dishes; straighten kitchen
3:00-4:00 Rest period
4:00-5:00 Market; walk
5:30-6:00 Prepare supper
6:00-7:00 SUPPER
7:00-7:30 Wash dishes
THURSDAY
6:00-6:30 Rise and dress; start water heater
6:30-7:00 Prepare breakfast
7:00-7:30 BREAKFAST
7:30-8:30 Wash dishes; straighten kitchen; plan meals
8:30-9:00 Make, beds
9:00-11:30 Bedrooms and closets cleaned
11:30-12:00 Rest period
12:00-1:00 LUNCH
1:00-2:00 Wash dishes; prepare vegetables toward supper
2:00-3:30 Upstairs windows cleaned (Up and down stairs windows alternately each week)
3:30-4:00 Silver polished
4:00-5:30 Rest period
5:30-6:00 Prepare supper
6:00-7:00 SUPPER
7:00-7:30 Wash dishes
FRIDAY
6:00-6:30 Rise and dress; start heater
6:30-7:00 Prepare breakfast
7:00-7:30 BREAKFAST
7:30-8:30 Wash dishes; straighten kitchen; plan meals
8:30-9:00 Make beds
9:00-11:30 Downstairs cleaning
11:30-12:00 Rest period
12:00-1:00 LUNCH
1:00-2:00 Wash dishes; start supper
2:00-3:30 Clean refrigerator, pantry, kitchen, drawers
3:00-5:30 Rest period; marketing
5:30-6:00 Prepare supper
6:00-7:00 SUPPER
7:00-7:30 Wash dishes
7:30-8:00 Set bread
SATURDAY
6:00-6:30 Rise and dress; start heater
6:30-7:00 Prepare breakfast
7:00-7:30 BREAKFAST
7:30-8:00 Make beds
8:00-8:30 Wash dishes
8:30-11:30 Special cooking, and baking
11:30-12:00 Rest period
12:00-1:00 LUNCH
1:00-2:00 Wash dishes; start supper
2:00-3:30 Clean stove; wipe kitchen and porch
3:30-5 :30 Rest period
5:30-6:00 Prepare supper
6:00-7:00 SUPPER
7:00-7:30 Wash dishes
(Good hot dinner Saturday night; light or cold meals Sunday)
A ONE-DAY SCHEDULE FOR A FAMILY OF THREE
(One small baby on 3-hour feeding period; small house or flat)
6:30-7:00 Rise and dress; give baby morning feeding
7:00-7:30 Breakfast. (Uncooked cereal, or cereal cooked in fireless. Table set night before)
7:30-8:00 Clear table; stack dishes; plan meals for the day; put on water for baby's bath
8:00-9:00 Bathe baby, feed and put to sleep; pick up after bath; straighten bedroom
9:00-10:00 Prepare baby's gruel, sterilized milk, etc; wash baby napkins while watching food
(Baby naps 9:00-11:00)
10:00-11:00 Clean living rooms, hall, etc., and dress ready to take baby for morning airing while marketing
11:00-12:00 Outdoors with baby while marketing
12:00-1:00 Return for lunch and baby feeding
1:00-2:30 Wash combined breakfast and lunch dishes; prepare vegetables, dessert and meat, if possible, for evening meal; brush up kitchen; empty garbage; sweep porch
(Baby awake and playing outdoors, if possible, from 1-3; 3 o'clock feeding and sleep until 4)
2:30-3:00 Iron baby clothing
3:00-4:00 Rest period; preferably nap with baby while it is asleep
4:00-5:00 Afternoon airing
5:00-5:30 Start supper
5:30-6:00 Put baby to sleep with night feeding
6:00-7:30 Own supper; supper dishes washed; table set for breakfast following morning
(Baby's last feeding 10 P. M.)