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:

Breakfast/morning time/breakfast jobs Journaling School Recess School Make lunch/lunch/lunch jobs Afternoon walk Show/naps Snack/play outside/free reading/games Dinner prep/dinner/dinner jobs/baths and showers Read aloud or show 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)
• Remembering “Romance” (letting God romance me 6/7 days of the week, and I romance Him on Fridays)

Favorite online resources right now:

• • 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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