There’s a lot of day in the life blog posts and videos going out right now. So I thought it would be cool to try one out...
5:40 am. The alarm goes off. No matter if I’m actually awake or not I hit the snooze. I just can’t get out of bed quite yet, most of the night was spent being kicked by my two year old...
Somewhere between 5:40 and 6 am: I get out of bed and start my coffee, wake my sister (who is 14 and lives with us) for school. Usually the boys are still sleeping. I drink my coffee, catch up on facebook and emails. This morning I printed out some handwriting worksheets because I’ve been obsessed with everything Bullet Journal (I’m sure you’ve noticed) so I’m re learning cursive and trying to make it look pretty. I also contemplate how to teach the boys to write and read cursive in the years to come.
6:30. Usually by now the toddler has realized I abandoned him in bed and he comes out to the couch to cuddle and get some milk to drink. By now I’m going through my to do list and thinking about what I need to do first in my day.
6:50 If Junior isn’t awake by now I go and wake him up. He’s difficult to awake every morning. It makes me really thankful that we homeschool because it’s difficult enough to get him out of bed in the morning, let alone dressed and fed and out the door for the day. I remind him that if he gets out of bed now he can cuddle on the couch with me and wake up. I’m lucky this morning because that worked.
7:05 We pile in the car and take my sister to school. City traffic is busy in the morning and now that she’s in high school this school is on the other side of town.
7:30 Some days we stop at the store if there’s anything we need to buy, but today we head back home. The boys usually eat around 8:30 or 9 but this morning they were hungry early. I get them cereal, let the dogs out and start laundry.
8:00 The boys are busy eating slowly and playing. We usually have the TV channel Sprout on the tv, I’m trying to remember to use this time to do Youtube play lists I put together every month based on what we’re working on. I usually take this time to work on some computer work. This usually consists of checking email if I didn’t get to first thing in the morning, paying bills and blogging.
9:00 I usually don’t really want to manage much around the house other than the laundry before 9 am. If we were lazy the night before this can cause some stress for me. I’m trying hard to make sure we have the dishes done and the floor vacuumed the night before, so that I’m not waking up with the odds stacked against me. If these two things are done the house is in pretty good shape.
9:30 If there’s not too much house work I need to start, and it’s alright outside, we try to get outside for a little bit. Fresh air, getting out energy... Now that Grayson is bigger and better able to handle colder weather this has really been an improvement in out days compared to the last few winters. We’ve even been sick less and I really feel it’s because we’re getting more fresh air and not sitting inside with the recycled air all day every day.
10:00 We tend to start out school day around this time. We start with a reading lesson and some handwriting practice, then math. We’ve been working on maps and learning about how our city and state fit into the world. Google maps has been a really fun way to do this, so we spend a little time at the computer. Then sometimes we work on some practice work or crafts. We spend between an hour and a hour and a half on this more formal learning.
11:30 I head back down to the basement and put laundry into the dryer. Then start laundry. Today we’re having some mini pizzas and baby carrots. Raw carrots are Junior’s favorite vegetable! I’ll take what I can get when it comes to them eating veggies!
12:00 Lunch is usually ready by now, we eat and then have some down time. Jr can play on the computer or some video games, I try to Grayson to cuddle with me- it’s hardly ever a problem. I take this time to go through my bullet journal, check email, draft blog posts, work in my Etsy shop, or read from my Daily Bible. After an hour or so of screen time I have the boys play legos or find some other toy or activity to occupy themselves with as long as its sort of quiet.
2:00 St start getting ready to do the after school pick up. Grayson still falls asleep on the car ride pretty consistently.
2:45 Usually we head straight home after pick up. I put Grayson in my bed and get him tucked in, he still naps at least an hour or two every day. I suspect that it’s because we stay up kind of late and still have to get up pretty early to do the school drop off. I don’t think I’ll miss having to get around so early every day after my sister is done with school. It’s one of the many reasons we decided to home school. Depending on the day Jr and I head outside while Gray sleeps since my sister is home to listen for him to wake up, sometimes we will play a board game, read books, watch a movie together or just hang out.
3:20 Dad is home right on time as long as he isn’t on call for work. We discuss our days and tell dad about everything we did in school that morning.
4:00 right now I take my sister to the chiropractor three days a week. We are right at the beginning of an intensive program to try to correct her neck and stop her daily headaches and her migraines. Little by little it tapers off until this summer when she will probably just go monthly. Depending on how well she responds to this. It’s almost always a pretty quick trip and we are usually home before 5.
6:00 we have dinner and family time. Then our evening routine starts.
6:30 the boys pick up their toys. They can always bring back out a few to play with for the evening, but the majority need to be put away. This is a harder task because Grayson LOVES to empty all of the baskets and isn’t quite to the stage of actually realizing that he needs to at least help pick the toys back up. Vince or I usually end up helping because it’s not entirely fair to Junior to make him pick it all up when he tends to be pretty good about not getting everything out.
8:15 brush teeth and have quiet time. We usually cuddle on the couch.
9:00 Screen time ends for my sister. Her phone is collected and we shut the wifi off for the evening. We are trying to get back in the habit of getting the boys into bed at this time too but other than when were all sleeping this is the most peaceful time of the whole day. We usually are too distracted to say good night just yet...
9:30-10 Vince and I can barely keep our eyes open. The boys always insist they are still awake, even with their sleepy voices and through their yawns. We get every one in their beds and say goodnight!
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