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 Group USA on the 2008 Beijing Olympic Video games, Shawn can also be a New York Instances best-selling writer, and was a Yahoo sports activities correspondent for the 2024 Olympics. Collectively, Shawn and Andrew have a podcast, and are lively on Instagram sharing enjoyable bodily challenges and relatable household content material.
With three children beneath 4, it’s necessary for them to have a scheduled morning plan—however it undoubtedly varies from each day.
“That is our aspirational morning, however it does not appear like this each day, by any means,” Andrew tells Properly+Good. “We name our morning routine the opening ceremonies, with our lengthy listing of issues that must be finished with the children and the canine. One of many intentional issues we have finished is schedule in time for every of us to fulfill 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 often wakes up early round 5 a.m. for his exercise and also will do a sauna and an ice bathtub. We don’t actually work out collectively. We permit one another house to do this. Later, I am going to 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 have now 10 minutes to sit down down collectively and skim a morning excerpt to start out the break day 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 a good way to maintain all the pieces organized, and when you could have little children round to think about all the pieces a throwable merchandise, the truth that they’re shatterproof is improbable. We did an entire collection of movies about what they might stand up to, and it was a blast! We acquired to chuck them from excessive heights, they usually didn’t break. These containers are additionally leakproof—even with spaghetti.
Then, it’s breakfast time for the children and prep for college
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 college 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 finished with the children, I am going to 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 exhausting to get our work finished 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 inside the work time as we are able to.
One factor we’ve discovered is to not do each on the similar time. At first we had been attempting to multitask and reply to emails and do Zoom calls with the children working round, and also you’re not in a position to be current in both. This resulted in a number of frustration.
We’re nice at tapping one another out and in when work must be finished as a result of we wish to be with the children as a lot as we are able to. The easiest way to do this is to have a fluid system that we talk by properly.
This interview has been edited for size and readability.
