Olympic gold medal gymnast Shawn Johnson East, and her husband Andrew East, a former NFL participant, are, fairly frankly, energy couple objectives.
Along with being a embellished gymnast who competed for Staff USA on the 2008 Beijing Olympic Video games, Shawn can also be a New York Occasions best-selling creator, and was a Yahoo sports activities correspondent for the 2024 Olympics. Collectively, Shawn and Andrew have a podcast, and are energetic on Instagram sharing enjoyable bodily challenges and relatable household content material.
With three youngsters below 4, it’s vital for them to have a scheduled morning plan—but it surely undoubtedly varies from each day.
“That is our aspirational morning, but it surely does not seem like this on daily basis, by any means,” Andrew tells Properly+Good. “We name our morning routine the opening ceremonies, with our lengthy listing of issues that have to be carried out with the children and the canine. One of many intentional issues we have carried out is schedule in time for every of us to satisfy our necessities.”
We caught up with Shawn and Andrew to find out how they handle their mornings and make all of it appear really easy.
Andrew kicks off the morning with a exercise
Andrew normally wakes up early round 5 a.m. for his exercise and also will do a sauna and an ice tub. We don’t actually work out collectively. We enable one another house to do this. Later, I will get in my exercise.
Then, they’ve espresso collectively
We begin our morning out with our espresso, and if we are able to, we additionally take a while to attach. We love our Breville espresso maker. Ideally we’ve 10 minutes to sit down down collectively and browse a morning excerpt to begin the day without work with some reflection and a time of thought with one another.
Subsequent, they meal prep for the day
Earlier than the chaos begins and the unpredictability of youngsters pops up, we attempt to get their breakfast and lunches made earlier than they get up. We pack their lunches within the Rubbermaid Brilliance meals storage containers.
These containers are an effective way to maintain all the pieces organized, and when you will have little youngsters round to contemplate all the pieces a throwable merchandise, the truth that they’re shatterproof is implausible. We did an entire sequence of movies about what they may face up to, and it was a blast! We bought to chuck them from excessive heights, and so they didn’t break. These containers are additionally leakproof—even with spaghetti.
Then, it’s breakfast time for the children and prep for varsity
Our daughter loves the chickpea chocolate chip peanut butter muffins that we get from the farmer’s market, and our son likes eggs, bananas, and peanut butter. After breakfast we get the children prepared for varsity and pack up their Stoney Clover Lane backpacks.
It’s now Shawn’s flip to work out and eat breakfast
After we get the primary spherical carried out with the children, I will train and have breakfast. My go-to breakfast is a thick piece of sourdough bread with butter and a fried egg. I even have a hack for scrambled eggs: cottage cheese. I have been placing cottage cheese in my eggs for years, and it’s the perfect.
Lastly, it is time to get to work
We attempt actually arduous to get our work carried out from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. or intermittently all through the day whereas the children are doing an exercise or are in school. We additionally attempt to stability as a lot child time throughout the work time as we are able to.
One factor we’ve realized is to not do each on the identical time. At first we had been attempting to multitask and reply to emails and do Zoom calls with the children operating round, and also you’re not in a position to be current in both. This resulted in plenty of frustration.
We’re nice at tapping one another out and in when work must be carried out as a result of we need to be with the children as a lot as we are able to. One of the simplest ways to do this is to have a fluid system that we talk via nicely.
This interview has been edited for size and readability.
