Last week we pretty much followed our schedule for most of the days. As long as we got through our school day I was happy. Thursday I had an eye appt. so we did the best we could with finishing our school day.

Today we were off to a good start. We started school at 9:00 a.m. with tutoring time with Annette. We went over her math, reading, social studies & science. We completed her writing & grammar assignment. Once the hour was up it was Joshua's tutoring time. I was able to go over grammar and had started going over math when their grandpa stopped by for a visit and, well, after that our schedule went out the window.

My dad works night shifts and is only able to see the kiddos once or twice a week. Since he didn't come over Sunday evening I pretty much new he might show up on Monday.  I have to figure out how to schedule this in. He stopped by at 10:00 a.m. and left at 2:30 a.m. I don't have the heart to tell him not to come by. We are the only family he has here in Texas. When we moved out from CA my dad moved out six months later because he missed the kiddos. My kiddos are a big part of his life. So what I think I might do is make Monday sort of like a light Friday. Not sure how I'm going to do that since Monday is the first day of the week and not the last.

I like having a light Friday because it gives us time to catch up if we didn't finish everything for that week. I'll have to pray about it and see what we could do.

Something that I wanted to share about when I first made a MOTH schedule. At the time I had  5 children Ethan was a newborn, Brent was 1.3, Caleb was 2.4, Annette was 3.4 and Josh my oldest was 4.8yr. old. As I look back having a newborn, 1, 2, 3 & and an almost five year old makes it hard to stay on task. No wonder I was scared of my schedule. They were all toddlers except for Joshua!

Instead of making a schedule like Managers of Their Homes suggested (their kids were more spaced out) I should have done more of a block schedule with a block for Bible time, cutting & pasting, letter time etc. as a group. An idea for those of you with a lot of toddlers  and an older school child; is too make a schedule for the older one(s) but not the younger ones.

Now that my youngest child is 4yrs. old it's much easier to make a schedule and run with it because of their ages. My children are currently 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 & 10 yrs. old and as you can see that is a lot different from 0, 1, 2, 3 & 4 yrs. old. (Lance wasn't born yet)  

Our weekend was really fun. The reason why we had a two day slumber party was because my Sweets left on Friday for a Men's Retreat. Although we missed him a lot it was a nice time to do things we normally wouldn't do. Like me sleeping in the living room with the children, us staying up past midnight and watching a movie late at night.

My husband had a nice time sleeping in a cabin on the top bunk. They had a really good speaker "Steve Farrar'. My Sweets and I really enjoy listening to Steve preach. In fact Steve Farrar preaches regularly at our church every Wednesday night during the Men's Bible Study. My Dear Hubby doesn't get to attend because he volunteers every Wed. night for AWANA. He is torn between the two. I would really like for one year to have my Sweets attend the Men's Bible Study.

One nice thing that the church does is every year my Sweets gets almost the whole years worth of the Men's Bible Study on cd for free. This helps a lot but like my Dear Hubby  says, "It's not the same as seeing him preach." Same thing with our pastor Church Swindoll. To see Pastor Chuck preach is so different from hearing him on the radio or cd. When you see him you see the passion he has for God's Word. You see how humble he is and the love he has for the lost. He is an amazing man.

Well, this post is a little bit about everything today.

In Him,

Linda<><

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