After a fabulous week in the mountains, we are diving back into school! Before leaving I reworked our schedule slightly. It looks frightening on paper, but flows well in reality.
I like having a written version of our routine, but the schedule is really just that--a routine. We fit it to our life instead of the other way around. Mostly it is just the pattern we've already fallen into naturally.
I've never been a fan of over-scheduling. Use only as much structure as will help and not hinder. For some families just having meals and bedtimes roughly defined will suffice. For many years that worked well for us. Life got more complicated recently, and I had to choreograph with more precision. In a few years, perhaps I’ll be able to go back to something less meticulous. (Or does it get worse before it gets better?)
For those who have asked (Tia, this is for you!) I make our charts in Microsoft Excel. It gives me neat columns and rows that I can fit to my needs and color code to my hearts content.
I can't imagine my schedule being of interest to anyone who doesn’t reside in my home, but in the interest of triva, I’ll post it anyway. 
(I’m sure you really want to know when we eat breakfast, right?)
Domestic Chaos Tamer and Homeschool Mom of Five, Dell writes about home, heart and hearth.
Comments
Nice site!
8:25 AM, Sep. 9, 2008, posted by Theresa
Wow are you organized! I like it!!
a copy of exl file
8:45 PM, Sep. 22, 2008, posted by Anonymous
I am hopelessly lost in confusion and desperately trying to make things work. AND I only have four kids! Would you be willing to send me your excel file??? please? I can't even figure out how I ended up at your blog...I was googling Tapestry (of Grace) and now here I am.
my email is marchellek (at) gmail (dot) com
(i wrote in parenths in case this site does what some do when you type in an email and it blocks them out)
thank you so much!
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10:21 PM, Sep. 23, 2008, posted by
Dell
Just emailed a copy. I hope it helps. :)
