Our Day

I haven't updated the blog in a long time. Sometimes I feel like I have nothing interesting to write about. But lately I have had some friends who seem to be very interested in what a typical day is like for our family. So maybe I will share more often. No two days are ever the same, that's for sure.

Today

I just layed in bed trying to find motivation to sit up, until about 8am. One of my favorite parts of summer is 'not having to' wake up early and get kids dressed for school. I really should be waking up around 5 or 6 to get all the weeds pulled and to exercise or read scriptures. But that seems to never happen.

Once up, I fed the kids cereal as usual. Then we all gathered in the living room for our 'morning devotional' . We say a prayer and read from the children's bible. Today we read about Jesus visiting the disciples after he was resurrected. Then I tell them what their job will be that day. On the schedule I have specific time set aside for chores. But typically it doesn't work, and I just call the kids to help me through out the day when needed. We have a list of Laundry helper, organizer, Kitchen helper, baby/pet helper. Then each kid takes turns filling these roles. Each day they have a different job. But the list of jobs remains the same. I hope that makes sense. I really like this method.

After that we do a little school work. Because their Aunt is away on a business trip, we read about the area she is visiting, then each child either got a handwriting or math worksheet, while Jocelyn watched a baby learning video. It took less then 20 minutes for that today.
Then finally around 10:30 we all got dressed and ready for free lunches at the park. It is a program provided by the school district. We go every day that we can. It saves me a ton of cleanup and money. After they ate and played, we came home and I read stories to them, then let them watch a movie or sleep. While they did that I weeded the garden. I am going to have a very difficult time letting them throw vegetables away ever again! Gardening is really hard work!!!

I came in and did a couple loads of laundry. They played in the sprinklers in the back yard. Then I fed them a quick peanut butter and jelly sandwich (usually our dinners are much better, but it will be difficult to cook for the next few weeks while they have evening swimming lessons.) Today was their first swimming lessons. Robbie came home so upset. I felt really bad for him. We just barely got him into swimming, so he had to be with much younger children. But I know he will pass off everything and very quickly get caught up. Poor boy. Then we had a few more snacks. John went to the gym. I wrote here in the blog. Next the kids will hopefully go to bed, and John and I will stay up, watch a couple shows and go to bed.

Tomorrow will be different. But I do want to keep up some of the schedule if I can. Maybe even get on a better schedule. But over all we did pretty good today.