20 Slow Living Routine Ideas for Stay at Home Moms

As a stay at home mom, finding time for yourself can be a challenge. In fact, whole days can easily go by in a blink, unplanned, if we let them.

Slow living, as a philosophy, encourages you to live according to your values and set intentions for the way you will choose to spend your time. To reject busyness as a virtue and to slow life down to spend more time with those you love, doing what you love.

But what does that look like, practically speaking?

Here are 20 slow living routine ideas for stay at home moms & slow lifestyle families.

Choose a few that appeal to you, that you and your family can try. Use them to create more time for yourself, and more time to spend with those who matter most to you.

10-Minute Ideas for a Slow Morning Routine

(1) Linger over a cup of your favorite tea each morning.

(2) Add ten minutes of meditation to your morning routine.

(3) Do a yoga or stretching sequence each morning.

(4) Take ten minutes each morning to write in your self-care journal.

5 Slow Living Routine Ideas for Evenings

(5) Spend time connecting with your kids after school, instead of chauffering them each day to one activity after another.

(6) Let go of one commitment that doesn't serve you & replace it with a daily or weekly activity that matches your values, like spending time with friends or family.

(7) At least once a week, eat dinner as a family without any electronic guests.

(8) Create time to read each night as part of your wind-down routine.

(9) Make a cup of lavender or chamomile tea each night to help yourself relax and unwind.

(10) Before getting up in the morning, identify your top 3 priorities.

(11) Take five minutes between one activity and the next each day to breathe deeply and slowly.

(12) Create a wind-down time each evening that helps you let go of daily stress & become sleepy enough for bedtime.

9 Weekend Ideas for a Slow Living Routine

(13) Bake cookies with your kids each Saturday afternoon for a slow living Saturday.

(14) Eat a slow cooker meal once a weekend with your family.

(15) Take the kids to see their grandparents each Friday night & have a weekly date night with your spouse.

(16) Each week, get together with your friends for a weekly game night.

(17) Have a weekly weekend movie night with your family.

(18) During your Self Care Sundays, set intentions for the following week.

(19) Create a brief letting go ritual & do that at the end of each day and at the end of each week.

(20) Create a capsule wardrobe, so each Sunday, it will be easy to plan next week's outfits.

(21) Bonus idea: set intentions for the week each Sunday and write them in your journal.

Which ones appeal to you most? Tell me in a comment below.

See you next time!

Love, Jeanine

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Get more ideas about how to create a slower
lifestyle for yourself & your family by
downloading my free Slow Living eBook.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~