Simple Woman's Daybook

FOR TODAY...MARCH 9, 2009

Outside my window...it is a cool, dreary day full of dark clouds and a chilly breeze

I am thinking...that the writers of Managers of Their Homes are geniuses...LOL

I am thankful for...a fresh new week, full of promise and hope, a new chance to get things right and a warm home that's a haven of rest in the storms of life

From the learning rooms...boys are working on their "Love Your Neighbor' packets, a few random worksheets to start the brain working again, and our new ABeka for next year has arrived...HURRAY!

From the kitchen...The smell of fresh baked bread (is there anything better?) and for dinner, pork roast with veggies and the aforementioned bread.

I am wearing...Jean capris and my red curves t-shirt which helped me get in the mood to work out this morning

I am creating...Order out of chaos, clean laundry with homemade detergent, and brainiac boys

I am going...nowhere until tomorrow, and am glad for the chance to spend the evening hours playing games with the family, reading to the boys before bed and then a quiet night with Dan.

I am reading...Many things...the New Testament in 90 days, Upstairs Girls (a book about prostitution in the Old West) Speaking Mom-eese by Lisa Welchel, and Educational Travel on a Shoestring...and when I'm done with one of those, I'm starting the LOVE DARE! My, that's alot, even for me!

I am hoping...that my new schedule will help me be more productive and better rested...both of which are needed at this point...hee hee

I am hearing...Shadow barking at the wind, the dryer finishing the 4th load of laundry for the day, James' pencil sctratching across the paper and Dave and Pat working together on the word search puzzle I gave them.

Around the house...T is sleeping, D is resting, big boys are schooling, I am Blogging, Dan and Jodi are working, and for about the next 3 seconds all is calm.

One of my favorite things...making Dan laugh..not just the two little chuckles that he does, but a full belly laugh. Since it's rare, it's prized!

A few plans for the rest of the week...grocery shopping, game night, pizza movie night, 3 evenings at work, Jodi has hand bells on Wednesday and Dan has training classes on Friday night and all day Saturday. Good thing I don't have a social life...LOL!

Here is picture thought I am sharing...Derek is getting so big...**SIGH** he sat at the table with me and did his very first paper for preschool today. We worked on the letter D since that's what his name starts with. He sat down and wrote a letter D just like he's been doing it for months! So here he is working away at preschool.

This post is in response to the call to simplicity by Miss Peggy and other daybook writers. If you want to find out more about that...visit her on her page at www.thesimplewomansdaybook.blogspot.com or simply click on the photo at the top of the page. Thanks for taking time to read this.

~Kristy~

MOTH is here!!

MOTH has arrived to out home and we are sooo excited! For those of you who are unfamiliar with MOTH, it's an acronym for the book called "Managers of Their Homes" and it has been a welcome respite to me personally and an exciting start of a new project. It is a book for and by Christian Homeschooling families to help you build a schedule to make sure that your home, family life, school and personal walk with the Lord run smoothly...a time for everything and all of that. With all these rambunctious boys, animals and whatnot running around here, I felt it was time to make a change. I spend all day dealing with the "urgent' instead of what is 'important'...the idea behind the book being that if you can find a way to smoothly and diligently care for the care of the home, keeping school on track and timely meals, etc...you will time to care for the urgent without it consuming your whole day (and bit more order should keep the 'urgent' to a minimum, anyway) and you will have time for the important things...like training your children to love the Lord, respect for parents, getting along and a healthy work ethic, etc. So often these things get lost in the hubbub of daily life...and at the end of the day, week, month...lifetime, you find yourself thinking that you had INTENDED to teach those things..but never got around to it. Anywho, enough babble about that...the point being that I needed to find a way to be more productive with the time I have available to me...and not only to be able to adequately care for the kiddos, but to take a few minutes here and there for me...my quiet time, work out time, healthful meals, etc, have been slipping due to lack of organization on my part...that's embarrassing to admit! ANYWHO, all of that to say....after COUNTLESS hours of fussing, rearranging, cutting out squares and remembering exactly how much I hate sticky tac, my new schedule is DONE, DONE, DONE!! Charlie and Dan has quite a bit of fun at my expense over the weekend, rearranging squares and asking me repeatedly if I was done yet...I wasn't nearly as amused as they were, but that's another story in itself. So, I shall put all of my hard work for you, my loyal friends and cohorts to see. I will be starting this schedule on Monday, but only to about lunchtime...then every few days, I will add an hour or so until we are running the full thing all the time. As for the rest of the day, we will resume the much looser adaptation of our routine...so a similar idea, but much more room for 'interpretation"...LOL! So without further ado..my MOTH schedule. ~B~, if you are reading this...all I have to say is I can't even imagine what you are thinking right now...LOL! ENJOY!!

Blessings,

Kristy

Here is the morning schedule, everyone getting up, dressed, rooms cleaned, chores, reading to the little ones, my workouts, Bible study time, lunch prep and the like. Coordinating every one's to be in the right place at the right time was tough...scheduling showers was even worse! LOL

After lunch and the following clean up, it's outside to burn off some energy to get ready for school...now each boy gets 1 on 1 time with me, and I still get to schedule myself 30 whole minutes of a rest...yeah! I was VERY excited about that part. ; )

Kristy and the Man Crew
*In the essentials; UNITY, In the non-essentials; LIBERTY,and in ALL things; CHARITY*
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