For an idea of what our summer days look like...
One TV show, which is done and shut off before I leave for "work" (my accounting internship) at 8:45.
Get up and dressed.
Eat breakfast.
Brush teeth.
Schoolwork for those having some left to do (just Noah now, and just science).
Reading, coloring, or crafts (CLEAN UP YOUR MESS!) for anyone with no schoolwork. Or outside…outside is always encouraged!
10:30 Snack. Not a meal. A snack.
Get your tiny heinies outside! And stay out until Mom is home. If it is rainy, you may watch a long movie instead.
12:15 Mom home. Stay outside while Mom makes lunch.
1:00 Lunch
1:30 Daddy leaves for work.
Levi...schoolwork with mom (Three more weeks? Slowly but surely...)
Rest/reading time. Quiet. Very quiet. Shut the pie hole. One hour is all I ask!
Chores/clean up.
Something fun, hopefully out of the house (playground, swimming, go for a walk, Auntie’s house, etc.). On hot days, I will tell them to get their chores done while I am at work so that we can go swimming sooner.
Dinner. Which means...whatever you want that fills the 'meal' category. Remember? I made lunch already. It's our big meal of the day. Dinner is leftovers, sandwiches, or some other random thing.
Outside. I mean it. Out, out, out!
Baths/showers.
Reading together.
Bed (9:00 Levi and Esther, 9:30 Hannah, 10:00 Noah). Noah and Hannah may read in their beds, but they must stay in their beds. And be quiet. My ears are done listening to people.
One TV show, which is done and shut off before I leave for "work" (my accounting internship) at 8:45.
Get up and dressed.
Eat breakfast.
Brush teeth.
Schoolwork for those having some left to do (just Noah now, and just science).
Reading, coloring, or crafts (CLEAN UP YOUR MESS!) for anyone with no schoolwork. Or outside…outside is always encouraged!
10:30 Snack. Not a meal. A snack.
Get your tiny heinies outside! And stay out until Mom is home. If it is rainy, you may watch a long movie instead.
12:15 Mom home. Stay outside while Mom makes lunch.
1:00 Lunch
1:30 Daddy leaves for work.
Levi...schoolwork with mom (Three more weeks? Slowly but surely...)
Rest/reading time. Quiet. Very quiet. Shut the pie hole. One hour is all I ask!
Chores/clean up.
Something fun, hopefully out of the house (playground, swimming, go for a walk, Auntie’s house, etc.). On hot days, I will tell them to get their chores done while I am at work so that we can go swimming sooner.
Dinner. Which means...whatever you want that fills the 'meal' category. Remember? I made lunch already. It's our big meal of the day. Dinner is leftovers, sandwiches, or some other random thing.
Outside. I mean it. Out, out, out!
Baths/showers.
Reading together.
Bed (9:00 Levi and Esther, 9:30 Hannah, 10:00 Noah). Noah and Hannah may read in their beds, but they must stay in their beds. And be quiet. My ears are done listening to people.
