Carrie's Country Cottage

A Day In My Life: 14 March

Miss Shan at "Honey Hill Farm" invited us to join her and Miss Jenny at "Little Jenny Wren" in sharing with one another on the 14th of each month what a "Day In My Life" looks like.  Well, here is what my blessings and I did today:

6.27 a.m.:  I got out of bed (27 minutes) late; read Ecclesiastes 4 and John 11; prayed for my husband's "Health" and "Protection" and the children "Developing a Hunger for Things of God" and "Being the Person God Created" (I am using Stormie Omartains' books to help me with praying for my loved ones each day of 2008)

7.10  :  Breakfast:  banana bread (that Little Princess helped me bake last night) and kefir smoothies

7.40  :  Quick Clean the kitchen

7.50  to  10.20  :  CORE (Sonlight Curriculum) with all 7 children.  Love Bug was on "Busy Bug Patrol" he helped our Busy Bob not to get into everything

10.20  to  10.40  :  Talked with a dear friend that is struggling with a major decision and wanted to get an unbiased opinion; gathered books for review with the oldest two boys while talking

10.40  to  11.50  :  Reviewed with the oldests; tring to get on the new schedule that Manly and I worked out while on our get-away is taking a bit of getting used to (I am being more consistant and the boys liked the relaxed, grace that was relyed heavily upon previously);  there was a lot that was incomplete and needed to be done before lunch.

Noon  :  Make lunch:  left overs

12.20  :  Biggest fella's eat lunch while little ones have recess and I snuggle little "Busy Bug" and have some special time with him.  He is such a great little cuddler.  I nearly fell asleep also and had a hard time getting back to doing reviews.  

1  to 3  :  Review with my fifth grader.   He was struggling with some concepts a couple weeks back and so we spent extra time working through those things.  Now he is a bit behind and we are needing to do two-a-days to try to catch up.  So, review was a bit lengthy today.   

2.20  :  Manly came home from work early.  It was a surprise.  We were not expecting him until dinner time.  We all miss him very much.  It is hard when he has to spend nights away from home.  Well, I was able to finish review with my 5th grader with the promise that the sooner we finish the sooner he can go have "Daddy Time" and the other boys would then need to review with me.

3 to 4 :  Worked with both my 1st and 3rd graders (hard to do both at the same time, but we were behind schedule) 

4 :  Had a nice family walk.  Our sweet neighbors were able to join us.  It is fun for the boys to have their friends to ride their bikes/skate/etc. with

5 : Home from the walk/playing at the park.  Turned on the potatoes that I had peeled and chopped while the boys were re-working math problems during review.  (I had put pot roast in the Crock-Pot earlier in the day.)  Tidyed up the house real quick (I usually like to have this done befroe Manly comes home, but he surprised us to day.), finished the last preps for supper and set the table for:  Pot Roasts with carrots, mashed potatoes and gravy.

6 :  Supper, yumm!

6.45  :  The boys started evening chores and I finaly got some one-on-one time with my man.

7.30  : Start getting the youngest two ready for bed while the oldest wraped up evening chores

8  :  Everyone in bed (even Daddy) and I have time to sit down to pay bill, type up and/or copy lessons for next week, catch up on Care Group e-mails, etc.

10 :  I am finally off to bed.

I have enjoyed spending a day in your life as I read each of your entries.

Blessing to you all for a great 15th of March;

Carrie