I have been expending much effort mentally and physically to try to get organized with more routines and a schedule of sorts.  This is a very difficult thing for us for many reasons.  Yet I am finally to the point where just thinking about it needs to become 'doing it'. 

I wish we were all truly self motivated learners.  I think in some ways we get close.  But the reality is that we get stuck in our areas of interest and the other stuff we need to do doesn't get done. 

I also am working on a positive behavior program, which is working fairly well, but I need to put alot of time and effort into it -- and have to change alot about the way I think and do things.  I am making progress, but it is challenging.

I tried to make a very detailed schedule, but it was too much.  Then I created a schedule closer to a routine, then created a little bit different one for each of us.  This will have to be fine tuned but is going to work better.  I made lesson plans M, T, and W and the kids were fairly good about doing what I asked them to.  My goal, though, is for them to be independent (there are alot of details in that I won't explain here and now) but I found that they were still totally dependent upon me to go through the plan with them, multiple times.  We have a ways to go....  I may stick with doing lesson plans only for three days per week, I don't know yet, that will depend upon results.

I realized the need for this last year when I left plans for them and their gramma while I was gone for 2 days, and they didn't even read them, let alone follow them (including gramma) even though I expressly told them what to read, where everything was, etc.

so,  well, more on this later, maybe....