059: Coronavirus Chronicles – One Week In

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. 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 serenity

      to 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:

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

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