What’s working one week in to school at home:

• Routine (shared below)
• Lots of recess and walks
• Each kid has a job after each meal
• Rotate who plays with the baby or toddler during school time
• Journaling
• Mindset stuff
  • There is no getting “behind” right now, so keep letting life happen at home
  • The relationship with my child is always more important than the power struggle

Our working routine:

1. 1. 1. 1. Breakfast/morning time/breakfast jobs 2. Journaling 3. School 4. Recess 5. School 6. Make lunch/lunch/lunch jobs 7. Afternoon walk 8. Show/naps 9. Snack/play outside/free reading/games 10. Dinner prep/dinner/dinner jobs/baths and showers 11. Read aloud or show 12. Bedtime!

What’s helping me right now:

• Headspace
  • Morning prayer and exercise
  • Evening walk by myself or reading in our room
• Evening prep for the next school day

• Serenity Prayer

  • God, grant me the serenityto accept the things I cannot change,

  the courage to change the things I can,

  and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Living one day at a time,

  enjoying one moment at a time;

  accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;

  taking, as Jesus did,

  this sinful world as it is,

  not as I would have it;

  trusting that You will make all things right

  if I surrender to Your will;

  so that I may be reasonably happy in this life

  and supremely happy with You forever in the next.

  Amen.

  Reinhold Niebuhr * Janet Lansbury’s graphic (see below) + * Remembering “Romance” (letting God romance me 6/7 days of the week, and I romance Him on Fridays)

Favorite online resources right now:

• • Mo Willems Lunch Doodles
  • Mystery Science
  • Audible free for kids!!!
  • Georgia Aquarium webcams

What’s working for your family right now? Do you have any favorite resources to share?

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