My posts are so often full of our weekend adventures and activities that I thought you might like to see what a “sort of” typical school day looks like for us.
5:00 am: My alarm goes off for the first time, must it go off so early? A couple of snoozes later I’m up and in the shower and getting ready—trying to be as quiet as possible so my children with supersonic hearing do not start stirring earlier than necessary.
6:00 am: Husband dear’s alarm is going off for the first time—several snoozes later he’s up and going. =)
6:40 am: The children are allowed to get up and get dressed in their “Eewniforms” as youngest Imp calls them.
7:00 am: The next few minutes before and after this include breakfast choices/arguments, first spills of the day, lunch choices/arguments, occasional ant-killing, shoe-selection/indecision, hair-brushing/torture and general chaos.
7:15 am—7:25 am: The school bus comes to pick up the kids and we leave for our school shortly after.
8:00 am—1:00 pm: We hit the books and work hard in class and return home just minutes before the kids’ bus arrives.
1:00 pm—3:30 pm: Imp takes a nap, sometimes she is joined by eldest daughter. Eldest son does homework (which sometimes requires our presence) or draws, etc. This is the quietest and often most productive time of the day, and we try to cram as much into it as possible: washing all dishes (no dishwasher), washing and hanging out clothes (no dryer), homework, exercise, preparing dinner and/or snacks (convenience foods aren’t readily available, nor do I really like them much--at least that’s what I tell myself =)). Needless to say this time always flies by.
3:30 pm—5:30 pm: Snack time and then play time.
5:30 pm—6:30 pm: Dinner happens somewhere in here. Or sometimes we go out as a family to visit some local friends—in which case the entire schedule pushes back a couple of hours even later.
6:30 pm—8:00 pm: Bath time, clean up from dinner, lunch preparation, reading books and Bible and goodnight prayers
8:00 pm—10:00 pm: More study time or catch up on whatever was left undone until now (no surprise, I guess, that a lot can get pushed back to this time).
10:00 pm—10:30 pm: Time to unwind my brain and get ready for sleep—the morning comes so quickly!
