Our schedule is very different (as I mentioned before), because my husband and I both work from home, and we homeschool, we live without running water off-grid, but here goes.

In the morning we wake up, I dress the girls, feed the baby (this happens throughout the day of course), brush hair etc. while Larry makes breakfast.  Then we eat together as a family.  Then we do devotional Bible reading out of the NIrV and memory work out of the KJV while the girls listen, color, answer questions etc.  Then we have chore time.  Everyone in the family works on chores.  The girls have some simple chores – mostly picking up.  Our oldest also helps with the dishes.  This is when we focus on domestics.  We do baths, intensive cleaning, dishes (once a day in the morning), cooking ahead, vacuuming, washing floors etc.  Not all on the same day of course, but we always do dishes and cooking.  The girls are excused when they are done, Larry and I keep doing domestics until lunch time – putting away laundry, filing, clearing hot spots, you name it.  We have a chalkboard we both write the tasks on that need to be tackled, but we don’t have a formal chore rotation in place.

After lunch we clear up the table, then we go into our work blocks.   We do two days of school, a day of work, two days of school, a day of work, then take Shabbat off (Saturday).  That is what *I* do in the afternoon block.  On school days we do skills first, then content.  We are currently doing Latin, math, spelling, English, copywork for skills, then we rotate science and history for content subjects for my oldest daughter.  My second daughter is doing All About Reading, and sits in on read alouds, my third daughter likes read alouds too.  We don’t get to do those if our skill work isn’t completed in a timely fashion – and of course, our content subjects are the most fun .

In our work time Larry works on the house, builds furniture, tends to the cattle, chops wood, works on the business, or on my work days he takes the children for walks, does crafts with them, reads them stories etc.  We have a tea break at around 3:45 then keep working until around 6 p.m. now that it is summer.

Then we eat supper, clear the table, and Larry milks the cow (he also does this in the morning before most of us wake up) and take scare of the milk.  Sometime in the afternoon or evening the girls also get to watch a DVD or VHS of their choosing – they have a rotational choosing schedule.  In the evening we sometimes watch a family movie, or just relax, get ready for bed, read our slate of bedtime stories, and it is off to bed!

We have never been so productive!  We’ve done away with multi-tasking and are focusing more on working as a team, I’m so pleased with the results.  Of course, this won’t work for everyone.  The most important thing with scheduling is to understand your family dynamics, eventually you will find something that works for you (Lord willing)!

So, if you haven’t found a schedule that works for you yet – keep trying!  It is possible to find a good fit, you just need to keep finessing!

If you feel led, we appreciate prayers for her to get through this high-allergy season comfortably .

I think we have it.

A few days ago her cow Alpha (our milk cow) gave birth to a little bull calf, now named Buster (our traditional name for critters destined for beef.)  Our daughter has been out there several times a day visiting with him, and whenever she comes back to the house she has a fresh crop of itchy hives.  It is nowhere as near as severe as her allergy to bunnies (that is horrific!) but it’s still something we’ll need to keep an eye on.

Poor darling.

So, if things are a bit quiet around here, you’ll know why!  I will be taking my laptop, but I don’t know how many opportunities I’ll have to be online .

For those asking about amino acids.  If your body doesn’t have enough amino acids coming in, it will have a hard time producing serotonin – a happy hormone that keeps mood levels balanced and helps you to sleep, both a good thing.  Not enough amino acids = not enough serotonin.  I just take a general amino acid blend when I feel hormonally whacky, and it does seem to help!

Baby is only 2.5 months so this is sort of unusual, we’ll have to see what happens!