I have always wanted to be an organized person. Waaay back when I was 10 years old, I made a detailed daily schedule at the start of the summer. It started at 6:00 am and kept me busy doing all kinds of good things all the day long. I was very good at sticking to this schedule, until about 10:00 on the first day, when I bagged it all and sat down to watch cartoons for the rest of the summer. The next summer I tried again, and my beloved schedule lasted two days. The next year was the same, and so on and so forth. I'm what you might call cyclically-organized.
These days, my schedule has taken on a different form-- and frankly it doesn't really feel like a schedule, more like a rhythm or ritual. Maybe that's because the smallest block of time I'm willing to schedule rigidly is a day (there's a part of me that needs flexiblity). Anyhow, for a long time, Monday has been family night, Tuesday has been my laundry day, Friday has been movie night, and Sunday the Sabbath. I'm talking a couple of years here, which is a heckuva lot longer than I ever succeeded at my summer schedules.
And then my friend Kate over at the ever-so-thoughtful blog, Simply Mother, wrote about the different days for different things idea. I, too, love the idea of different days for different things. It just seems to be such a nice and orderly way to live. And the boys love to keep track of the days of the week and what we should be doing. I figured it was time to take things to the next level. Here's our new weekly routine (which is basically the old with a few new things thrown in):
Monday: Park day with friends in the morning. Family night in the evening with a yummy treat!
Tuesday: Homemaking day. Laundry, cleaning, bread making (I make four batches of dough-- eight loaves-- and freeze them. I put one out to defrost every night and then shape it into a loaf and bake it in the morning for almost-effortless fresh bread every day).
Wednesday: Out-n-About day. I'm going to try to keep all our errands and running around to Wednesdays. And to appease the kidlets, a picnic lunch at a new park every week.
Thursday: Arts and crafts day.
Friday: Library day and Pizza/Movie night.
Saturday: Morning Turn-outs with Dad and family projects/activities in the afternoon.
Sunday: The Sabbath. Church in the morning, breakfast for dinner and a penny walk in the afternoon.
Oh, if only there were eight days in a week! Then I could have a lay-on-the-couch-and-read-and-eat-ice-cream day.
I'll keep you posted on how long we manage this. What about you? Do you have any special routines?
4 comments:
if your schedule works out as beautifully as it sounds, i'm printing a copy of it and poaching the plan. it sounds fantastic!
I think the kids and I would all like this, especially in the summer when there's no set pick up/drop off times for anything!
Robyn makes herself calendars and schedules all the time. It cracks me up, but I'm the same way.
It's nice to always have something fun to look forward to!
I absolutely love this.
And I had no idea you could freeze bread dough and have it still turn out!!! Do you have to do anything special with the recipe to make it raise alright?
Nothing special, Angie. In fact, I find that I have better luck getting my bread to turn out well when I freeze the dough and then let it thaw/raise overnight. For some reason, my bread has been consistently better since I started doing this.
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