What’s working one week in to school at home:

• Routine (shared below)
  
• Lots of recess and walks
  
• Each kid has a job after each meal
  
• Rotate who plays with the baby or toddler during school time
  
• Journaling
  
• Mindset stuff
  
  • There is no getting “behind” right now, so keep letting life happen at home
    
  • The relationship with my child is always more important than the power struggle
    
  
  

Our working routine:

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         1. Breakfast/morning time/breakfast jobs
            
         2. Journaling
            
         3. School
            
         4. Recess
            
         5. School
            
         6. Make lunch/lunch/lunch jobs
            
         7. Afternoon walk
            
         8. Show/naps
            
         9. Snack/play outside/free reading/games
            
         10. Dinner prep/dinner/dinner jobs/baths and showers
             
         11. Read aloud or show
             
         12. Bedtime!
             
         
         
      
      
   
   

What’s helping me right now:

• Headspace
  
  • Morning prayer and exercise
    
  • Evening walk by myself or reading in our room
    
  
  
• Evening prep for the next school day
  
• Serenity Prayer
  
  • God, grant me the serenity
    

    to accept the things I cannot change,

    
    

    the courage to change the things I can,

    
    

    and the wisdom to know the difference.

    
    

    Living one day at a time,

    
    

    enjoying one moment at a time;

    
    

    accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;

    
    

    taking, as Jesus did,

    
    

    this sinful world as it is,

    
    

    not as I would have it;

    
    

    trusting that You will make all things right

    
    

    if I surrender to Your will;

    
    

    so that I may be reasonably happy in this life

    
    

    and supremely happy with You forever in the next.

    
    

    Amen.

    
    

                                                Reinhold Niebuhr

    
    
  
  
• Janet Lansbury’s graphic (see below)
  
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• Remembering “Romance” (letting God romance me 6/7 days of the week, and I romance Him on Fridays)
  

Favorite online resources right now:

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  • Mo Willems Lunch Doodles
    
  • Mystery Science
    
  • Audible free for kids!!!
    
  • Georgia Aquarium webcams
    
  
  

What’s working for your family right now?  Do you have any favorite resources to share?

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