In schooling we are forging ahead with a new schedule and a new way to organize our materials. I hope to have my first-ever-tutorial up in a couple of days all about the fabric wall pockets like these that I made to help organize our days. Today was the first day of our new schedule and it worked out so well. I'm confident it will keep the kids on track and keep me accountable to be prepared for each day. I really don't want to just create a public school at home feel, and have been accomplishing the work we needed to do, but a schedule give me the peace of mind that we are progressing and that there is some order to this crazy place. Our schedule is made with room to be flexible and I think even the kids were surprised at how much we all got done today, before lunch, just by starting half-an-hour earlier and staying focussed on the tasks at hand.
In the efforts to have a clean (enough) house we've established some new routines for keeping up with dishes, laundry and other housekeeping tasks. I plan to get up earlier for a quiet moment in God's Word, begin the day with an empty dishwasher and a tidied house. Then I want to make sure that the dishwasher is empty and the kitchen counters are clean when I begin dinner prep. That little bit of amazing wisdom comes straight from Auntie Leila over at Like Mothers, Like Daughters. I only wish she were my aunt in real life.
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