It's summertime, and that means our routines are looking a bit different than normal...
I get up at 6:00 and make some 'tea' (hot water, freshly squeezed lemon juice, freshly grated ginger, and cayenne pepper - oddly enough, it's a concoction I really enjoy).
And then I try to get in some quiet time with my Bible and a devotional. (Right now, the ladies in the A Year in the Making workshop I'm teaching are reading Savor: Living Abundantly Where you are, As you Are - it's a really gorgeous, fabric covered book and it feels like a really good way to start the day.)
I let the dogs out (but this guy has to stay on a chain because he tends to follow his nose wherever it goes).
Miss Yans and Coley usually sleep in.
But not Courtney Lee - she's volunteering three days a week down at the Noah's Ark summer program (where Annie used to go to school), and is usually up by 7:00, doing her chores and getting ready.
I'm trying to keep my office door shut until 11:30 a.m. so I can write (for my current workshop) and am encouraging to get the kids (actually, it's just a problem with the girls) to not knock on my door before then, so I can work without interruption (and honestly, they're old enough to not need to knock on my door every 10 minutes), but I think I'm going to have to get stricter about enforcing it.
I tried to set us all up for success this summer by making a chore list...
A list of things they could grab for breakfast and snacks while I'm working, and a promise to make them all lunch at 11:30...
And the guidelines for screen time as well...
Can't say that it's going perfectly, but the older I get, the more I realize that perfection is a moving, unrealistic, joy-robbing target, so I'm just shooting for progress instead.
Hope your summer is off to a good start and sorry I haven't been around much - I'm hoping to work on that!
