Good morning! I hope your day is off to a great start!
Jesse was gone on a business trip Thursday through Saturday morning and I got sick with what my kids had last week (congestion/fevers, etc.) right after he left. So, needless to say, I was very ready for him to walk in the door on Saturday morning!
I spent the weekend recuperating — mostly just resting, reading, writing, and watching a few movies. After many weeks of busyness, it was wonderful, despite the fact that I didn’t feel well.
I’m feeling quite a bit better today, but I’m planning to still take it pretty easy so that I’m fully recovered for Silas’s birthday and speaking at the Arlington Homeschool Conference later this week.
I only ended up getting to go through Kaitlynn’s clothes a few weeks ago, so today I’m tackling Silas and Kathrynne’s clothes — getting rid of things that no longer fit, organizing, and making sure they have plenty of clothes for Spring/Summer.
Here’s my plan for this morning:
- Bible reading/journaling
- Blogging/business work
- Run/shower/dressed for the day I want to have
- Pick up my room/make my bed
- Start a load of laundry
- Breakfast
- Morning Time
- School with Silas
- Get kids started on chores/independent work/Daily Lists
- Quick pick up of the house/kitchen cleaned up
- Go through the Kathrynne and Silas’ clothes
- Write thank you note/notes to kids/Mother’s Day card
- Fold & put away all laundry
This evening (hopefully!), I’ll share a post about how our day went and give you an update (with pictures) on my progress on our house and the kid’s clothes.
Need some motivation? Check out my post on 10 Ways to Make Cleaning More Fun.
Want to join me? Leave a comment to let us know you’re participating! If you have time, tell us what your morning plan is, too.
Kelly says
I am so glad you’ve been posting about Morning Time – thanks to your posts about it the past few months, I’ve started doing a *short* Morning Time with my 2.5 year old (will be 3 next month) and 6 month old. It’s a nice time for us to start the morning off right. 🙂 My 2.5 year old is pretty “calm” and able to sit still for her age, so we are able to have a nice kids’ Bible reading, memory verse, sing a hymn, read a few pages of Little House in the Big Woods, and talk about today’s date on the calendar. It’s just a few minutes, but it really helps me feel like we’re doing something together to formally start our day, and helps keep me accountable for Bible reading, etc. with them. Thanks for sharing this tradition of yours! 🙂
Jennifer says
My plan was to get a jumpstart on my weekly spring cleaning project today, which includes cleaning closets and cleaning my freshly cleaned refrigerator that someone spilled a bowl of egg whites in *sigh* but my plans have been put on hold because I have a friend with horses who is breeding one today, and myself and my older kids will get a front row seat for all that is involved. Then, we hope to be there for the birth in 11 months, too. What a great homeschooling day today!
Lana says
I’ve had a shower, done hair and make up and dressed, packed hubby’s lunch and made breakfast. Exercising done, laundry done and folded, I play the piano for a bit everyday just to keep up with it, I have been outside and watered plants and worked on fertilizing and cutting back plants that overwintered in the garage. I have to dust upstairs today and work on packing for a few days at our house at the lake. If I get all that done I hope to get back outside and finish up with the plants. It is good just to be out there in the sun and warmth after such a long, cold winter!
I hope you feel much better today. It seems that virus will just not go away this year.