I figured I’d write a bit on our daily show here at Life on Five. It’s so nice to be getting back on a routine. The stress seems to go up when there’s “nothing to do”…. haha.
8:30ish am- wake, feed cats, take morning meds, start a load of laundry.
9:00ish- feed DS, feed the dogs, check email, put laundry in dryer (usually DS does this)
9:30ish- DS to practice piano. I can sometimes start lessons this early, but not all the time.
10:00ish- I eat breakfast, then start lessons. Usually we do Math first, but lately DS has been doing cursive first. While ds finishes his worksheet (done at the end of the lesson) I fold the laundry. Might start another if behind. Do morning dishes, sometimes vacuum, quick tidy.
11:00 ish- no particular order after this. Either do science, spelling, or history next. Followed by English.
12:15- get lunch. Usually left overs or something quick, like a sandwich.
12:30- I shower if on a work day, or if we have to go somewhere. If not we do more lessons (whatever we didn’t cover earlier).

That’s pretty much our “schedule”. We will sometimes work until 1:30-2pm. After that there are no real plans. Get done what needs done. Sometimes I spend too much time surfing the ‘net. But TV use is almost nill for me. Friday evenings we have a few shows we like, but that’s about it for me. I used to watch the news, but I get what news I want online and don’t have to worry about DS seeing a commercial for Valtrex or Viagra.
I am working on getting into a better afternoon routine, but it’s so hard since many afternoons are spent at work for me. I need to make a new “To-Do” list, and use it as a guide. I did stay up and start an annual calendar for homestead necessities, like when to start the seeds, plant crops, spray fruit trees for what/when. It’s quite an undertaking to think of all the yearly necessities at once, esp. since this scale of homestead is newer to me. It’s easy to take care of 2 raised beds measuring 4×8 compaired to what I have now. Even those two got away from me back a few years ago. But on the other hand, I was better able to fertilize and water then, so the fruits of the (tomato) vine were more productive. By the time things got away, I was sick of messing with it.
One has to breathe in rhythm with nature to make it all work on a homestead.