I would love to tell you guys that I have it all together and everything in my house is organized and our day is structured. If I told y'all that, I would be lying. I used to have my house organized and my time strictly managed.
Then life snuck up behind me and gave me a wedgie.
A little over 2 years ago Daniel, my husband, had to have back surgery and life as we know it changed. Now I am not saying that was a bad thing. Actually it was a very good thing since it allowed him to become more involved in our daily life. It also caused us to become very frugal (we thought we already were) and very flexible.
Our schedule before this major change was this:
6 am- Get up with Daniel and get dressed. See him off to work.
6:15 am- Start a load of laundry, breakfast, and coffee. Sit down to check FB of course.
6:45 am- Kids start filing into the living room. Kisses and hugs and then orders to go get dressed for the day.
7:15 am- Breakfast for all the kids and coffee for Mom.
7:30 am- I washed breakfast dishes and kids are off to clean up their rooms and bathrooms.
I would also switch over the laundry to the dryer right now and put another load in the
washer.
8am- I would clean up my bedroom and bathroom, straighten the living room and kitchen.
9:30am
9:30am-School with younger kids first while bigger kids read. Then switch.
11:30am
11:45am- Fix Lunch and eat.
12:30- Nap time/quiet time (for all kids) This is when I would fold clothes and do my deep cleaning.
2:00pm-School for older kids on computer and younger kids color, play with playdough, or some
other craft.
3:30pm-School is over for the day so the kids go out and play and Mom starts on dinner.
6pm-Dinner
6:30pm-Wash dinner dishes and clean kitchen while Daniel hangs out with the kids.
7-8pm- Baths, brush kids teeth, and bedtime.
8pm-Clean up house and get ready for the next day.
9-11pm-Hang out with Daniel
11:30pm- Sleep
It's funny how I remember it so vividly. I wish I could get back to that and maybe one day I will. :-)
We are a homesteading family now. We have cows, chickens, goats, and a baby lamb. Our schedule now looks something like this.
8:30am- Wake up to kids com either coming into our room and climbing in bed with us or kids fighting.
9am-Breakfast and coffee (everyone eats at a different time)
10am-Noon- School for all (kids are sharing computers so we rotate) Little kids work on reading and writing.
12:30pm-Lunch
12:45pm-Kids play outside
1pm-3pm-School for big kids.
(Notice the lack of nap time/quiet time) This is the reason that my house stays dirty nowadays. :-)
3pm-Kids play outside/help with animals.
6:30pm-Dinner
7:00pm-Baths, brush kids teeth
7:30pm-9pm-Daniel watches TV with kids or plays games with them.
9pm-Start trying to get the kids to sleep.
11:30pm- Bedtime.
Now take the above schedule and scramble it liberally with livestock auctions and home renovations and you will have a loose interpretation of our version of chaos.
I am trying to improve it though. I'm about to start the process of decluttering (again) and reorganizing things. After that I think that the house will get a pretty steady rhythm going again. Now that we are homesteading we have to be pretty flexible with our schedule. It is more important for our kids to learn how to live and work in the real world than it is for them to learn how to sit still at a desk all day. We apply school lessons to everything we do for practical applications of the things that they learn in school. We have found that they retain the knowledge better that way. And they are learning how to interact with people of all ages and backgrounds. So it is a worthwhile trade off I guess.
Whenever things change (if they ever do) I'll do an update post on our schedule.
God Bless!
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