ANy of us with more than 2.3 children that homeschool have gotten that question.

I never have a really great answer. Mostly I say, God's Grace, or good kids or mutter something under my breaath that sounds like (who saysI  DO anything you should see my house). Not exactly a stellar witness to homeschool and Large Family life.

I've never been great with rigid schedules. MOTH took me forever and it made me cry. I know people who thrive on it. For us it was a road map of sorts. A rarely used road map.

SO with 8 children 8yo and under belonging ot me. A mom who is anything but a Type A. This is what our day looks like.

5:30am-Up, start coffee, sit and stare blankly for about 10 minutes unitl coffee is done. Consume coffee.

6::00-Get Stevie up and fed, dressed and pray with him. Off to the bus.

6:30-Bible reading and quiet prayer, dressed and get the day going. This is where I should be making bread, and need to fit it back in.

From here on out things follow a pattern not the clock.

-Kids up fed and get dressed

-Chores, supervise kids chores

-Outside play for kids

-Laundry load in and moved around. This goes on thorughout most Mon. & Wed.

-Leading Little Ones to God study and daily prayer time.

-Handwriting with Start Write Now, maybe some Draw Write Now.

-Each child takes turns reading aloud to me. My K goes over the letter sounds.

-Math U See T-Th

-Lunch,

-Naps for littles

-"School" is finished for the day, but the learning continues

The rest of the day is filled with quiet reading, more outside time, maybe a good program on the history Channel. Once a month we go to the library.  The boys have been reading a lot, but also like to look up Maps on the internet and are studying the history of  The Pony Express.   Molly and Susie like to play on the computer with Reader Rabbit. Sometimes we put in the Leap Frog DVD's

-Afternoon Chores. Kids put away Laundry, feed Dogs etc

-QuietTime- 3 to 4. I HAVE to have this before the littles get up and I want my children to have a built in time during the day to learn to settle down.

-I start dinner about 4pm.

-By the time Daddy gets home at 6:30 all kids are in Pj's, Baths are taken on a rotating basis.

-Dinner is ready to be put on the table and hte Living room is picked up.

-8pm prayer and song. Off to bed.  Bigger kids can read unitl 9pm.

Thats' our day. I really could not do a MOTH or stricter scedule. Just yesterday the kids stayed in jammies. Did their chores and then  read all day.  Lots of books got read and it was a nice mellow day. Not every day can be that way. But they are nice once in  a while.