Focus on Routines

This week all the kids after school and evening activities start again. So that means my weeks will be even busier.

Mondays-

• House Blessing
• Empty and clean bins
• Dusting
• Clean mirrors and glass
• Vacuum
• Mop
• Change sheets every 2nd week
• Finalise Shopping list
• Do grocery shopping
• 5pm – 7pm Martial Arts

Tuesdays-

• Business course 9am-3pm
• Quick clean of inside fridge
• 4pm-5.30pm Chess Club for DS
• Run errand while DS is at Chess Club
• 3.30pm-4.30pm Book Club every 2nd Tuesday of Month for DD
• 6.30pm-8.30pm Girls Brigade for DD
• Put bins out

Wednesday-

• Business course 9am-3pm
• Do any paperwork that needs doing
• Wash rat cage
• 5.30-8pm Choir Practice for DD

Thursday-

• Business Course 9am-3pm
• 4pm-? Youth Life Group (Bible study group) for DS (doesn’t start for another week)
• 6.30pm – ? Worship team practice for DH and maybe DD and me (not every week but fairly often)
• 7.30pm – ? Church Board Meeting for DH once a month

Friday-

• Woo hoo –no course
• Morning Cuppa, Chat and Chat with my Best Friend
• Life Group for whole family (doesn’t start for another week but not sure what time yet)

Saturday-

• Family day
• Once a month DH hosts a men's breakfast here. Luckily my involvement is minimal

Sunday-

• 9am Zone (Sunday School) for kids
• 10.30am church service.

Now if I’m going to successful get back into these weekly routines without burning out I need to focus on my daily routines such as Morning, Afternoon and Evening routines and try to get the kids to do the same.

Morning Routine – It looks a lot but I’ve divided things up into smaller bits and I’m usually up at 5.30am

• Make bed
• Put a load of washing on
• Exercise
• Bible Reading and Journaling
• Put laundry on line
• Shower and dressed
• Hair
• Face
• Swish and swipe
• Have breaky
• Vitamins/Meds
• Feed rats
• Make/Pack Lunches
• Brush teeth
• Wash up breaky dishes
• Check hot spots
• Shine sink

Afternoon Routine

• Empty inside rubbish bins
• Take time for me
• Folding
• Ironing
• Exercise
• Start Dinner

Before Bed Routine

• Hot Spots
• What's for dinner tomorrow?
• Wash up
• Wipe kitchen benches and table
• Shine Sink
• Layout Clothes for Tomorrow
• Brush Teeth
• Write out tomorrow's to-do list
• Write in Diary

I’ll let you know how this week goes

I stumble but I refuse to fall

As I sit here now I have just finished catching up with a heap of washing up. I can believe I let them pile up…grrr at me…my bed is currently unmade at 5pm in the afternoon and I barely did any of my morning routine…and …I can honestly say…I felt like crumbling and just having a good old cry…but I didn’t and I haven’t and I won’t…why…because even if I stumble…which we all do sometimes…I refuse to fall…and even if I do fall I will pick myself up again and just keep moving… I will accept that sometimes I get sick or my back acts up or…anything else that mucks up my routine happens…maybe I won’t like it when that happens…heck…I’ll hate it when that happens…but I won’t let it destroy me.