Making our home a haven: Re-examining the schedule

I have been using a very loose "schedule" (more like lists!) thanks to Crystal [1]'s inspiration, and it's worked quite well for me. This weekend, I made a few changes to the "schedule", which will hopefully help things to run even more smoothly! :)

Here are my 5 morning things:

1. Drink tea [1] (or water) and take vitamins
2. Put away clean dishes
3. Start laundry
4. Bible time with the children
5. Piano lesson with Yehoshua

I only have 2 afternoon things (though of course there are always extra things to fit in!):

1. School time with Yehoshua
2.Make dinner

And there are 5 evening things:

1. Pack Joshua's lunch
2. Wash all dishes
3. Fill water bottles
4. Wring out dish rag (and hang it to dry -- still overcoming the stinky dish rag problem [1]!)
5. Take a shower

The other day, I heard the mail truck outside, and said to Yehoshua, "Wow! The mail man sure is early today! Oh, wait... it's 11:30 already??!!"

So I also made a rough schedule for meals and bedtimes, to help keep me on track.

6:30am -- Children get up (this is the time they are usually awake, though I'd let them sleep longer!) -- breakfast, showers

11:00am -- Lunch

12:00pm -- Nap time for Eliyahu; snacks after nap time

5:00pm -- Dinner; family devotions after dinner

8:00pm -- Bed time for both boys

Because... a home is happier when the mom knows what needs to happen and when... and keeps everyone going! :)

I am also happy to report that with Joshua's help, we got the laundry caught back up this weekend, so I'm starting my Monday with just one load to wash and hang! :) I've also been potty training Eliyahu, which means fewer diapers to wash -- yay!! :)

Besides the above schedules, one of my goals for Monday is to do some of the food preparation for our dinner guests tomorrow night. :) I also have a pile to tackle [2], which I will gladly post about if I have time! :)

Monday's dinner: Homemade pizza [2]