I have learned so much from the book Managers of Their Homes, a book for homeschooling moms about how to schedule their day.  My problem continues to be that I love CREATING the schedules, but am not always so great at actually carrying them out.  With the start of a new school year, I have created and will attempt to discipline myself to follow through with this - although I have realized that when you have young ones your schedule will change frequently because they change so quickly (nap schedules, amount of time needed for schooling, etc).  So my goal is to keep up this schedule for our Fall semester.

Now I am not rigid about this, but it helps give me a flow to our day.  I enjoy looking at other people's schedules too (I know, I'm pretty sick in the head) so I thought I would share mine and if anyone wants to post a link to theirs, I would love to see it as I always am looking for more ideas.  I have also made a schedule that alters things a bit for the day we run errands/grocery shop that basically just shortens the amount of playtime and another for the day we will be attending Bible Study Fellowship in the Fall.  Of course we will also have things scheduled in the evening and the kids may keep up with their classes at the YMCA, but this is a GUIDE for me on how I can get our priorities done each day. 

I hope at some point to make a 1/2 hour for exercise each day and I do plan to squeeze in some reading or playing time with Boyalmost2 during the day as well.  A new item I've added this year is at 3:00 we will have snack, go over our memory verses/Awana and then have a training time where I can train them in anything that I think they need to work on (anything from a new chore to table manners to practicing responding to a sibling in a loving way - whatever they might need).   We are also going to try a new incentive program for serving the family with their chores HAPPILY and having a teachable spirit during school time this semester that BW came up with and I'm still trying to iron out.  I will write more about that when I know what it will look like.