Everyday Life

I've been working a lot recently on getting my family and I onto some sort of schedule. I'm not trying for a hard and fast schedule, mind you, but rather some sort of comfortable routine. Being a rather undisciplined and bohemian type of person, if I allow myself too much leeway I tend to find that I begin to fritter away more and more time and accomplish less and less of what I really want to get done. When one is homeschooling this can be an even worse affliction, since my daughter isn't going to learn anything if I don't spend the time teaching her. Frustrated with my many attempts to organize our lives, I began making lists recently. For whatever reason, if I write goals down I go crazy inside if I don't fulfill them, so doing this is a great way to ensure that I will accomplish most if not all of what I set out to do (in my mind) at the beginning of the day. Over the past week this has been working out quite well (much to my pleasant surprise). I've been finding the time to get the business work done, homeschool with our daughter, take care of the animals (which reminds me that I still need to feed our chickens-drat!), keep the house reasonably clean, and get meals onto the table more or less on time. I still have a long way to go, but our life this week was much calmer than normal; I did not find myself racing around in a tizzy because I was late to go someplace or was rushing to do something that I was supposed to get done the day before. I didn't have any creative time, I haven't blogged in days, and our extracurricular activities have been lagging, but I'm hopeful that if I was able to improve this much, I can continue moving forward toward where I want to be.

Now, off to feed the chickens.