Ok so 3 weeks into this not working thing and 1 week into kids being back at school and I have to say I really am enjoying putting all my efforts into figuring out how to best manage my house. I'm able to focus on the important things in life: my faith, my spouse and my children.
Have I actually started anything yet? Well I little bit. I've begun to sell the baby items we don't need anymore to generate a little income. I've been shopping at ALDI and shopping sales to try to save a little on the grocery budget. I'm researching freezer cooking and may give that a whirl to provide cheaper home cooked meals to my family. I've been making an effort to be prepared for the day and on time to things and so far I've done fairly good (I am notoriously always late to everything!). I've been setting up a good routine with my school age boys to do their homework get good study habits in place and go to bed on time. I've researched preschool homeschooling and have started to pull together an idea of what curriculum I'm going to use and or combination of curriculums and what theme's I'll be doing for September. My goal is to order it all this weekend and next week shop and prepare with starting day being Tuesday the 3rd (although I have to do lunch duty up at school so the first day may be short.) I even think a friend of mine will bring her son over to participate in the schooling as well. I've attended every mass at school that my kids have attended which has been a challenge considering my little 11 month old will not be quiet or sit still. Thank you Lord for the quiet room in the chapel (saves me!).
Things still to figure out - I need to be more on top of cleaning routine and laundry - I need to build that into my day somewhere which I haven't figured out where. I need to continue to clean out sell and organize our things.
I would also like to organize my computer (files, emails, photos), print out photo books, etc. This is a time consuming thing that may take me years to do.
Something I know I saw someone do on facebook once was 365 days of photos. I would like to try it and do it on the blog. I want to take one picture a day at least and post on the blog. Just to show what one year looks like in our life and heck maybe just keep going after a year. No idea how good I'll be at keeping that up but we will see. I think I have to figure out a simple way to get photos off my phone on to this site first.
So my son turns 4 next week and my daughter turns 1. I've got to get a party planned. Not sure what we'll do with that either. Ok that's if for now... back to work.
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