Nothing makes me feel as easy-breezy as a well planned day. Seriously. Laugh at me if you want to, I have two sisters and am used to being ridiculed. With a plan of action, the stress of the unknown is gone.
Here is how I did a plan. We have a tiny whiteboard in the kitchen so; I grabbed the handy dandy marker and made it happen. Since I am in the experimenting phase of planning a day, I tried to keep it simple. Stage one - Try something.
Stage two - Evaluate the effectiveness.
Stage three – Make changes where needed.
Stage four - Season to taste and get the sucker down into a hard copy that I can use every day.
At least for today I know what food I am making and have ideas of how to keep the kids busy. My workout is Tony Horton’s 10 Minute Trainer (he sais that he can transform my life in 10 minutes) the kids can play with balloons while I do that. Time is scheduled to do my course work. The boys should be happy with time outside, their favourite snacks, making art and playing with a bucket of water in the kitchen.
I am most confident about the snacks, reading stories and getting Nik to school on time. I am feeling less confident about Leo napping, being able to focus on school work and dinner being ready on time.
I hope this is a success.
ReplyDeleteJust a thought - when do you get up? when do the boys get up?
Any possibility of getting up early and doing the school work before the boys get up? I'm sure it would be really really early. You could nap when Leo naps.
Are these the DVDs you were working through before Leo? I'll be interested in hearing how they work out for you! Good luck, hon! Ann
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