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"Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored." Titus 2:3-5 (NASB)
~ 2009 Theme Verse ~
"Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass" I Thessalonians 5:24 (NASB)
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•Praying God's Word Day By DayBy Beth Moore
•The Bible
•For the Children's Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and SchoolBy Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
•Munich SignatureBy Bodie ThoeneFrom The Zion Covenant Series
If you've read any of my posts this week, you'll know that this routine thing has been a struggle. Not so much with me as with my darling little Sugarplum. It's felt like I am continuing to go back and forth, up and down, much like I am on a roller coaster. I have joined in on the challenge at Biblical Womanhood to redeem our time and try to put more order and structure in our days.
I was tremendously blessed to receive an email yesterday from a lady who offered suggestions as to how to get my little one on a schedule. It was such a timely email. I was about to do a post telling you how I was feeling like trying to have any kind of schedule during the day time seemed like futility. It would seem like something was going well and working. Then all of sudden that would change. Well, thanks to this lady's email, I am feeling encouraged and ready to keep trying to get Sugarplum on some sort of schedule. That translates into us being able to have more of a routine as well. Some things we have been able to try to maintain pretty well such as our evening routine. I thought we might have to throw the evening routine out the window but alas we were able to continue trying to keep that up. The rest of the day though, I have to admit, was back and forth. Most days I was still able to keep my goal of doing my prayer and Bible study time after Sugarplum laid back down for a nap early in the morning. And some days we were successful in getting breakfast and chores done and school started as per the routine I was trying to institute. However, there were some days when it was all kind of thrown out the window.
So thanks to Erica, I have been encouraged and have a renewed determination to keep at it. I am spending today monitoring how things are going with Sugarplum: sleeping cues, seeing if she may be getting overstimulated, seeing if she is staying awake too long thus not being able to sleep very well, etc. So far it's going pretty well. I hope that by the end of the day I will have an idea on how to begin working on getting her on a schedule.
Personally for me this week, my one main goal is much like Crystal's. I want to be in bed to sleep by 10:00pm. My original goal was to be in bed to sleep by 10:30pm at the latest. However, my plan to adapt this week is as follows:
Time
Routine
7:00pm
Start a load of laundry, get pajamas on, family devotion time (when hubby is home)
7:45pm
Work on doing any straightening up around the house that's needed, take shower if I didn't get one that morning
8:00pm
Drink herbal tea, computer time
9:00pm
Get in bed with my book to read for a little bit to wind down
9:30pm
I’ll try to have lights out and go to sleep. When I turn the lights out for bed, I usually spend a little time talking to God and then go to sleep.
This schedule will hopefully allow me to get adequate sleep given that Sugarplum sleeps until at least 5:30am which has been the average wake time for her here recently.
If you'd like to join in with Crystal and work on order and structure in your day, or would like to see how others are ordering their days, visit Biblical Womanhood.
The ultimate goal of Christian home education is to train children to impact the world for God. We want our children to not only hear and learn God's Word, but also be doers of God's Word. Therefore, we strive to teach them:
SERVICE - How to serve God and others
ACHIEVEMENT - To do the best they can in all they do from academic subjects to chores to serving others and more
LOVE - To love God and one another
TRUTH - To live their lives based on the absolute Truth of God
The name of this blog is the acronym for these four areas that we strive to teach our children:
S.A.L.T. - Service, Achievement, Love, Truth
