Scheduling blues...

Varying shades of eggs from our girls!

Well, life has been fairly standard. Thankfully all critters have been safe, and Sarah is laying her uber cool greenish blueish eggs more frequently.  We've had rain and warmer weather the past couple of days but its grey and 32 today. Not quite cold but for a high today, its a tad bit on the chilly side (especially when yesterday was nearly 60!).

I find that I am missing the bi-weekly karate classes though. Somehow the distraction was nice; it was great to see the kiddos doing their thing, and somehow, adding them to our schedule helped me keep track of time better. When you are in a rural area with just kiddos and yourself, it is much too easy to have a full days weeks fly by without even noticing. I look forward to February when we get to go back!

I STILL need to get my life into a better schedule! The problem is I get all happy and detailed and make this super shiny, magnificent schedule. That alone takes me a couple days. Then I am joyful and proud of my amazing shiny schedule and "take a break" for a couple of days since crafting it was apparently equal to taking on a marathon.

Then I admire said schedule. Marveling at its engineering.. at it's magnificence. Delighting in how genius it is and how it will fix all that is wrong with the world.

Finally, the day comes! I am going to IMPLEMENT the schedule! Initially it works well, but maybe just a bit binding if not "pinchy". A week later I grow weary because the schedule is just not working, but it should! Just a few weeks into it I grow to resent that shiny schedule. It is all that is wrong with the world! Evil and demanding!!

Finally, irritated and resentful I return to the old schedule...

I think I will try a somewhat modified version of fly-lady. Not the whole program (I hate shoes!) but I will modify it to make for a more consistent schedule, and to be able to add more FUN to our daily schooling. (I always want to do more fun projects during their day but rarely actually DO it.  I'd also like to add Art as an official subject.)

OR.... do you have any suggestions of something better??  I need it to be free or very nearly free.