Day 6 Redefining Your Day Last time we left off, you were Adding it Up - listing the activities for each member of the schedule and making sure they don't exceed 24. How did you do? Today we are going to take a bigger look at those time schedules you put together and see if we can tweak them a bit to help them accomplish your overall vision a little bit better. (Using the Free Family Scheduling Template might make the job easier, but it can all be done on a piece of … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2013
Creating a Family Schedule That Works for You: Day 5 – Adding it up….
Day Five Adding It Up...... Hello there! So glad you guys are joining me as we create some family schedules that work for our families! At the end of last week, your task was to create your Activity List, either on a piece of paper, or using the Free Family Scheduling Template I created for you. (NOTE: I made a small modifiction to the Family Scheduling Template for this post so that only the items selected for that particular family member will show as options under … [Read more...]
Creating a Family Schedule that works for You: Day 4 – Activity List
Day Four: Activity List By now you should have 2-3 sentences that outline your general Vision statements or objectives as a family, and taken a look at your activities to make sure they align with those objectives. You have also identified the amount of sleep each member in your family needs, and developed a start and end time to your day by identifying a bedtime and rise time (and nap times) for each member of your family. Today's Mission: Make a list of all of the activities in your day … [Read more...]
Creating a Family Schedule that Works for You: Day 3 – Establishing a Beginning and End
Day Three: Establishing a Beginning and End In this constantly bustling society, one area that often gets overlooked is the amount of sleep everyone is getting. Some might be getting too much, but if you're a mom of young children, chances are that you aren't getting enough sleep. I can be totally guilty of that - robbing time from sleep to get things done. But if you don't have rest, it makes you much more irritable and less productive. It … [Read more...]
Creating A Family Schedule that Works for You: Narrowing Your Path
When I was a kid, we ran from one activity to another. We were involved in EVERYTHING. While I appreciated being able to do nearly every activity I ever desired, I reflect on childhood as a very frazzled time - always running from one activity to the next. Today, I struggle with performance-based approval which I believe stemmed from this frequent activity. How much can I get done and how well can I do it - these are questions I began asking myself at a very young age, … [Read more...]
Creating a Family Schedule that Works for You: Day 1 – Developing the Vision
It's Officially Day One!!! I know - you're as ecstatic as I am. You could barely sleep last night thinking about scheduling....am I right? huh?....oh yeah, baby!! No?...... You're not that excited? Oh. Okay. In that case, it is a good thing we are going to take this one step at a time. Imagine you are preparing to shoot an arrow. You grasp the bow in one hand, line up the back of the arrow to the string, pull back and let go. … [Read more...]
Blog-hop and Giveaway!
Some things are just too good not to share..... Today is the first-ever CC blog hop here on Wisdom and Righteousness! Some CC Mom's out there have been gracious enough to check out the new Orchestra Lapbook and tell you what they think. Each one is also giving away two free copies on their sites! Check out their posts and enter the giveaways! Fellow CC Mama over at The Adventures of Bear writes "I am delighted that Karen has created another orchestra lapbook for Cycle 1.....We … [Read more...]
Next Week…
I just wanted to write a quick note to let you know what is right around the corner!!! Monday I am going to kick off the week on Monday with our first ever blog-hop! Some great CC Smart Mama's out there will be reviewing the new Orchestra Study Guide and Lapbook and hosting giveaways! You can enter all of them! Be sure to jump around their blogs and see what other ideas they offer for your school year, or just encouragement while living in the trenches of raising our kids for Christ!!! … [Read more...]
Creating a Family Schedule that Works for You: Pt. 2
You Can Do This! Imagine with me..... You arrive somewhere ten minutes early. Since you have plenty of time, you can carefully hang the kids coats up (or patiently instruct them to do so). You can casually walk to the event, and find a good seat where all of you can actually sit together. Since you arrived early, you feel much more calm and patient than you usually do when you are hurried. The kids notice it too, and they seem to also be more calm and patient (at … [Read more...]
Lapbook 1.3 Quick-Print Guide
Hi Y'all! We are fully in the rounds of school here again, and Classical Conversations starts up next Tuesday for us, so review, review, review is on our agenda. For those of you already digging into the third 6 weeks of CC, I thought I would post the quick-print guide for Lapbook 1.3. (I also thought I would tell you about a new giveaway coming up this week for the Orchestra Book! Stay tuned!) If you are unable or unsure how to print double-sided (which varies with your printer), you can … [Read more...]
