Admission: I have a love/hate relationship with schedules.

I like to spend copious amounts of time laboring over a schedule . . . to then throw it out the window the first day I try to implement it. I then turn into a fly by the seat of my pants kinda girl. Or you could think about it as a juggler. I try to juggle all of my responsibilities without letting anything drop.

Since no two days are a like around here, I’ll just give a general peek.

There is one exception to the above statement. Caffeine. Coffee. My day starts with it and is sustained by it.

After I’ve downed about two cups, I’m usually able to deal with other humans (6:30 – 7-ish).

I try to have my crew done with morning chow around 8 or 8:30. They head off for room chores and I head up to the schoolroom.

We work until around 11-ish (I trade off who I’m working one-on-one with and we take constant snack breaks) and then have afternoon chow.

Typically, I like to be done with school by lunch because we all want to pursue other interests. Some days it happens. Some days it doesn’t.

During the afternoon, I can be found on the computer (without fail) and the crew is off creating a play, catching frogs, having bike races, etc., etc., etc. . . .

Dinner’s served up anywhere from 5:30 to 6-ish. Family worship follows, along with some French reading and then the bedtime routine.

If it’s been a particularly rough day (i.e. I failed at my juggling act), this is the time I whine and cry to hubby and he tells me how totally awesome I am. *snort*

Some nights I crawl in bed and read a book until I can’t keep my eyes open and some nights I hide in the schoolroom and watch one of my favorite chick flicks with a glass of wine.

And then I do it all over again the next day.

Shhh!

Some days I want to literally pull all of my hair out.

Then there are some days when a member of the crew will do something really smart or say something really intelligent and I’ll think to myself: “Where did he learn that?! Oh, wait a minute. I taught him that. Sweeeeeet! I guess I can do this homeschool thing for another day or two.”

Note: These pictures were intended to make me look like a goober. Please do not send e-mails telling me I look like a goober. I know. It’s all good.