January has been uneventful and routine.
The End.
Ha ha, just kidding. But yes, there hasn't been much exciting going on. The routine is
6:00 AM Heather gets up to read scriptures (except on exercise days when she gets up at 5:30)
7:00 Heather gets ready to go to school/prison
7:30 Savanna, Fiora, Weston get up and eat breakfast. And it takes the entire half hour to do this for some reason. Jared usually gets up around this time also, its too noisy to sleep with the kids up anyway.
8:00 Family Prayer, Karli arrives, Jared and Heather leave, kids supposedly get ready for school (aka mess around)
8:30 Kids practice the piano/violin
9:00 Kids go out the door to school with Xander who is in Weston's class and faithfully walks to school with them every day.
9:30-2:30 Everyone at school or work, learning and working, unless Savanna or Weston have an accident and call me in the middle of class because they need clean pants, which happened two Tuesdays in a row during the same class. Karli had to come to the rescue both times. Or if Weston gets sick and needs to be checked out, which has happened twice, Karli got him the first time, and I got him yesterday. The whole routine really gets thrown off when kids get sick and have accidents, but thats life.
3:00 (Mondays early out day) Savanna has violin lessons
3:30 Kids come home from school and go immediately to the computer which is more a habit than anything because we cancelled Netflix due to kids having too much TV distraction. Jared also eliminated the temptation to watch several episodes of several shows late into the night.
4:30 Heather returns home, kids are usually doing something on the computer, and its time to cattle prod them into their reading and homework duties.
5:00 Heather makes dinner, except Thursdays which are my late day so I am in class until 7:00, Jared makes dinner if I haven't thrown together a crock pot meal.
5:30 Eat dinner as a family if Jared manages to make it home by then, which is often the case in the winter.
6:00 (Wednesday) Weston has gymnastics, Heather takes him and goes walking, or on other days Jared and Heather try to talk about the day while hushing the kids so we can hear each other.
7:00 Down time, or reading, or baths, or flashcards
7:30 Scriptures and family prayer (ideally, sometimes its closer to 8 when this happens)
8:00 Kids in bed, Jared and Heather in hot tub
9:00 Heather in bed, Jared has his slick deals.net, ksl classified, and news on the computer time, or basketball, or bowflex, its just Jared's "time"
10,11,12 somtime around there, Jared finally goes to bed
Weekends are different of course. We had cousin Lucy over for two days and two nights this past weekend, which the kids loved. Savanna turned Weston and Lucy into zombies, and used an oil based lip gloss for the blood which took a lot of scrubbing to get off. Lucy and Weston were not thrilled with the scrubbing. They all got along pretty well, and had a lot of fun, I'm used to more bickering when Lucy's here, so it was nice! Maybe they're growing up.
2 comments:
Wow, you're pretty disciplined getting up that early to read scriptures and exercise! Give yourself a pat on the back.
Yah, they do MUCH better now! I think it was just an age thing before - and since Lucy is closer to Weston's age - but of corse is going to play with Fiora - that age gap might have contributed to it. They always get along so well now - and I love it!
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