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A Day in the Life of a Homeschool Family

11/14/2014

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9:45- clean up from breakfast (diningroom and kitchen back in order)
10:00- all kids working on subjects and toddler doing a felt board scene...meanwhile baby is getting into EVERYTHING so I take him to another room to avoid distractions.
11:45- My 11 year old finishes all school she can do on her own and offers to do a craft with Toddler (she is awesome at this and a HUGE help)
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I often hear, "How do you do it all?"  Here is my confession...I don't.  We have rough homeschool days where mom freaks out because there is an overabundance of laundry and the baby is getting into everything meanwhile the toddler just had his second accident of the day while pouring salt all over the kitchen counter all the while someone needs help with math and someone else is waiting for thier spelling test...yeah, we have days like that.

But, we also have good days.  Here is a peek inside what a homeschool day sometimes looks like for us, a homeschooling family of 7 (5 kiddos, 2 adults) who live on a farm.

5:30am- baby is up to nurse
6am- mom making coffee (nectar of life).  I plan out breakfast and get started (baked oatmeal in the oven by 6:15).
6:20- I sit down to do a brief Bible reading and personal devotion time.  Praying for a good day!
6:35-I have a few minutes to check emails, social media, etc.
7:00- 14 year old gets up and snuggles up on coach to start her school
7:20- 11 year old daughter up.  We do health together while the house is still quiet
7:40- 14 year old and I do history together while all is still quiet.
8:00- Toddler (almost 3 now) is up and game on!
8:10- 8 year old up
8:30- farm chores being done (feed & water horse, rabbits, cats, chickens)
9 am- baby is up and breakfast with a game of scrabble to start the day off on a fun note!
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12:30 lunch is inevitable...working on that scrabble game again.
1:15 pm finish lunch and start cleanup crew again
1:30 pumpkin seed snacks started by 11 year old
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All others are wrapping up with chores and schoolwork
2pm- baby and toddler heading to naptime, 14 year old agrees to read yet another book to toddler (I think this makes like 7!)
2:30 pm- both littles sleeping so I head down to do Science with my 8 y/o and 11 y/o.  We complete our study of learning about Mercury (We are doing Apologia's Astronomy) and move on to reading a chapter book for their literature class on Thursday (we do a read aloud as they are both reading the same book but have different speeds on thier own so we just do it together)
3:30 pm free time for all the kids, I start dinner...WHEW!

This is just a sampling, and a sampling of a good day at that.  I mean to say that when you homeschool there are both good and bad days and the funny thing is that yesterday, it wasn't such a good day and when a friend stopped by in the morning to pick something up I told her about this post and then added...THIS is NOT a day I will be blogging about!!!
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