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Thanks for chiming in last week! This week has been ALL ABOUT trying to get this big ole ocean liner of a family routine on course!
The shift from summer to fall is always... choosing my words carefully... rough! Every year I think, "We should be better at this!" You would think that after a lifetime of transitioning from one season to another that this would be routine. Nope  .
OK, so this year I actually headed into it KNOWING it would be like a wrestling match, scrappy. I gave us a bigger window of transition - a WHOLE WEEK! Each day I hit our time pegs (4) and say things like, "Let's act as if we have a great plan, all of our supplies, and an orderly house!" This acting is actually working  . When we bump into something "not quite right" I just make a note to get back to it later. I SO want to go looking /searching for what I need *in the moment* - wrong!
So there it is. My pat myself on the back for nothing much at all  .
Let's see... no new blog post. I went over 3,000 followers on twitter  . Devin started her senior year at ASU. Aiden turned 17 & started community college classes. He also posted an (baseball) MLB meme that has almost 2,000 likes on Facebook. Check it out & like it! Proud mama, .
Have a most Wonderful Wednesday! & week!
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Trying to face getting back into the swing of it all myself, Angie! 
This week I've been online more...posting some of the Ambleside thoughts on my blog. I realized I have no idea how facebook works, even though I've got an account. EVERYTIME I get on it, I am lost and just clicking around trying to figure out what is where and who is saying what.
Spending a lot of time planning out the first few weeks; we'll start on Monday.
Hoping to go to the beach later today. We've been having just a ton of rain here and thundershowers, so not much beach action the last few days.
HAVE to get into my boys' room and dig it out today, too!
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We're packing to fly home after a week in California with family. It's been busy, fun, a little stressful and happy.
We're going to try to start up a "school lite" routine tomorrow. 
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Didn't make it here last week, but yes, it has been all about routine lately. We're on our third week and I'm so excited there isn't much tweaking/adjusting I have to make. Everyone seems happy with their choices. For the first time I did a reading page count per book per student and seem to have come up with good numbers for each. Making their days smooth and balanced.
Dh just finished his work week so he wants to take one more run at the beach tomorrow afternoon before all outside school programs begin and his schedule changes again  .
Have a good week all
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Well we've done better than just not trying to do school this week. Really super busy, major scout thing, dh not getting days off etc. But I did manage to get some school planning done (not finalized) and get the kids started on some math and english. Today is a "late start" day because last night was the scout event which my dh (scoutmaster) ended up having to miss and i need some recovery time. But that's over and I have room in my brain to think again. So we'll start adding in more school next week and finish up some house stuff this week. But I don't feel like we completely missed starting school when I had hoped.. next year I'll know I should figure it out a lot sooner since we got close and I had so much going on it was difficult to get everything ready.
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School routine? Sort of. As is typical, any grandiose notions of a solid routine get thrown by the wayside when you insert into the equation --> infant twins. Soooooo, my routine has been to routinely give-in to the natural flow of family life when you have the (ever present) unpredictability of twins and their needs (espeicially whilst teething)  .
I had a delightful conversation with my oldest a few days ago, we looked over the written thoughts on her schooling that I had jotted down on paper and she immediately got all giggly and excited for the things to come, but the thing is, she already does so much. At nearly any given time during the day she's got her little nose stuck in a book. The latest? She's on a geology kick, this has lasted for quite some. She is the model student for unschooling success and I love it.
I've got some fresh new books arriving this week, I'll be strewing those for them dribble by dribble. No sense in getting ourselves all worked up and stresed out by trying to do it all at one time. ...ease ourselves back into the fall season with plenty of leisure time in the dirt outside  . Besides, when I give them too many new books all at one time, the intimacy of getting to know the book is totally lost.
As for the rest of my ladies in pink, the 5 and 3 year old are nearly ready to kill each other, so I'm thinking it's time to give my little K-student some other things to focus on (besides which polly-pocket her little sister has just stolen). ... will be pondering this in the days ahead.
As always, the strictly  enforced afternoon quiet time has continued to be my respite... and nobody seemed to notice that I stretched it out another half hour. ... sometimes I impress myself.
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Routine has been my biggest problem for most of the year! I am an organized person, don't like a strict schedule, but require to know what I am doing in advance. This lack of routine is killing me!!! I thought I had prayed about it, but I wasn't getting anywhere. On Monday, I said I had enough and sent the boys to their rooms for a half hour of "quiet alone time" and I went to my room, shut the door, and prayed. First thing to my mind was that I had missed Confession a few times and I promised to move it to the top of my to-do list. I also was able to sit there and think through all my routine problems. IT FELT WONDERFUL!! Progress, thanks to the Lord!! Now my only problem is getting started on time in the mornings and we have already seen improvement. You bet I will be waiting for the priest come Sunday morning for Confession!
Good news, I started my blog back up. I missed it! Scouts started back up this week. On track in getting the kid's activities ready for our parish fall festival in a few weeks.
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We have a planned routine but I don't think we are doing a very good job keeping on schedule.
We are on week 6 of school and if we ever get started in the morning we do accomplish what is planned...the problem is the mornings, we just don't seem to get moving until about 10am, but we will keep working on it.
Soccer messes with the dinner routine, but we still manage to eat all together, just an hour later than usual.
Kimberly did lose her last baby front tooth. It's the last tooth in the long line of about twenty years of waiting for the little jack-o-lantern smiles which I love. (I'll just have to wait for grandkids now )
We did manage to have a little fun by making a very big mess...a colored chalk and salt jar sculpture. They came out very pretty.
We met my nephew's fiance from South Korea on Sunday with the big campfire and cookout...a lot a family and a lot of fun....I do believe we scared the poor girl though as she is an only child and we had 30 people together with just a couple phone calls.
I'm wishing everyone a wonderful week! 
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No routine here, aching to ease ourselves into the school year, but things are a bit on hold, still.
Praying I can get organized and disciplined. That will be a miracle! I'm just working on getting up early in the morning.
Our A/C went out two days ago, so that was a good penance. Nothing big, quick fix.
And Manassas had Civil War activities to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Second Battle of Bull Run/Manassas. My sons and one nephew had loads of fun on Saturday.
Meanwhile I'm peeling wallpaper, organizing, cleaning and sewing, alternately.
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Let's see, finalising planning for our annual Catholic homeschool camp, 11 days to go!
Painting the last wall of our house, the front so it will look stunning!
Preparing for the launch of the Homeschool High School Carnival, submissions are due Friday so I have to be ready by Monday.
Thinking about our dd18 (19 tomorrow) birthday. Her first away from home  We've mailed off a bag of goodies, she is very baffled by the shape and we're planning a skype party complete with cake and lollies. Trying to be brave.
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Routine????? Getting there!
We have had one heck of a week trying to recover from the scare of the Tropical Storm that dumped 12 inches of rain on our fair city and even made it impossible to go to Mass on Sunday It really was not bad but the bands kept hitting and I was too scared to drive in those rainy conditions.
We are on week 3 here and finally getting a rhythm that Mom can handle. I laid it all out on paper and put up a schedule as to who gets Mom when and its actually working out really well. Our only glitch is when I fall asleep on the couch at nap time and sleep for over an hour and a half instead of the 1/2 hour I allotted. Oh well, Science is getting done on at least half the days of the week
I ask for all of your prayers as my Dad's wedding reception is this Sunday. This is a very hard day for me on many different levels and being 27 weeks pregnant, HUGE and not feeling very pretty is adding to the anxiety. My family tends to make me and my husband the receiving end of a lot of family size jokes normally and I have a feeling with the stress of this wedding it may be at its worst.
I hope you all have a great week and that you are able to enjoy these last days of the summer!
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The house is finally on the market, so we are establishing new cleaning routines. Having four little ones and showing a house is not going to be fun unless I keep on top of the daily stuff. We slacked on formal learning for a bit, but now that we are in maintenance mode it's time to get some more reading done during the day.
Not much else to say!
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Well, we're sort of crashing through our routine. This is Week 2, and mostly it's going well, though my 8yo and I have been clashing -- today was Not A Good Day, and Mom Was Not Very Rational. You know, like when you ground multiple people collectively until they're 35, as an ineffectual gesture of something or other, and by the time the last words are falling from your lips you're already realizing just exactly how stupid a consequence this was to levy and trying to figure out how you're going to backpedal from it, yet still remain consistent and authoritative, which is a joke . . .
So, school, which is normally over by 1 or 2 this year so far, lasted until 4:30 today for one person. This developed somehow out of a moment during which this person threw a sandwich at lunch, and it fell on the floor and the dog ate it, and I refused to make another one, because people who choose lunchtime as a good time to pretend to be blind, with their eyes closed, and then think that their brother has switched sandwiches with them and subsequently refuse to eat the sandwich on the plate before them because they're convinced that it's really their brother's and has his drool on it, and so they're going to throw it back to/at him, and miss, DON'T GET ANOTHER GRILLED-CHEESE SANDWICH. There was a causal relationship between all this and the fact that the person in question was reading me Paddle-to-the-Sea while I was making dinner, but I can't really remember now how it all fit together.
Her 10yo brother was a living saint all the while. As I'm sure he wanted me to notice.
But everyone went to bed happy, which is important. We're reading Edward Eager's Knight's Castle at bedtime, and everyone loves it -- I have to hide it from my 10yo, who wants to sneak it and read the whole thing in bed. And when we're not having these epic spiral meltdown days, it's exciting to me really to see progress in my kids' learning, after a nice, fallow summer. So I'm not feeling quite so at the edge of the cliff as I felt a few hours ago.
I'm really, really, really praying for a better day tomorrow, for all of us who did not have a good day today.
My 9th grader was on campus with my husband, so in his biology element and out of the craziness at home.
My college girl had her first day of sophomore classes today -- she has four on Monday/Wednesday/Friday, which is a bit of a killer, but leaves lots of study time on Tuesdays and Thursdays, when she only has one class. She sounded tired but upbeat on the phone this afternoon. Her class schedule is tough but good, and she's found a new violin teacher whom she thinks will be more simpatico than the teacher she had last year. So that was all good to hear.
And now I am going to bed, for the sake of my metabolism and what's left of my sanity! Tomorrow is another day!
Sally
PS: Because I was feeling like such a failure today, in my mind it was as if the great poetry/dictionary-using lesson we had on Monday hadn't happened. I just remembered that -- we have had some good times this week!
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We are in our 4th week of school and we had eased into our routine very nicely until last week when my ds started playing football. He has football three times a week. This doesn't interfere with school but I find that when we have something to do later on in the day, it looms over me for the entire day. I feel pressured to make sure that we get everything done in time to leave.
Football practice is 40 min. away so there has been lots of driving the past two weeks plus we are in the middle of harvest which translates into taking meals to the fields. This doesn't interfere with our routine but it makes the routine tense rather than calm and peaceful. I can hardly wait until Nov.
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We are in our 3rd week and loving it! I hadn't planned on how we would and when we would start due to being sick for almost 5 weeks, but it couldn't have worked out any better! Of course I had most of the materials ready to go, but I hadn't thought about a routine. Who knew not planning a routine would lead to a very nice routine for all of us. I guess the kids and I worked on this one together over the last 3 weeks. Something must be going right for us when I hear from my boys, 5 and 4, they would like to start as early as 7:30am! I just hope we can keep the enthusiasm.
We have eased into the subjects as we still have 3 (2 will be starting with our homeschooling group) more to begin for my oldest and 2 for my boys. They can't wait and neither can I as we start them next week!
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Coming in late here. We started our first week back to school, but have also been doing some hospital schooling. My John went into the hospital to monitor seizure activity. It seemed like it would be simple, drop the anti-seizure meds, wait for a couple of seizures to be recorded and then move on. Well, here we are on day 5 with nothing happening. So hospital schooling it is.
My son Tim is making arrangements for his 3rd deployment. :( And we have the wedding of my daughter in 22 days!
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momtomany wrote:
And we have the wedding of my daughter in 22 days!
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A wedding  Woo-Hoo!!
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We were going to start this week, but we decided to move back to Fairbanks instead. So no routine for now, unless you count getting up early, packing up and driving as far as we can. Rinse, repeat for about 8 days.
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Okay Theresa, I am getting whiplash watching you hop from one side of the country to the other
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Well, dang, Theresa! I never got to come visit you!
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