Week 6
I was busy the latter half of this week rearranging the house in an effort to make better use of our limited space. We are enjoying a much less cluttered living room and this week I intend to tackle closet space while trying to figure out what I want to do with Bug's room. I looked back this week at my projected schedule and noticed things haven't been playing out as originally planned although not dramatically different. I do want to take a new look at things and type up a new plan however. I have found that after Wednesday, my enthusiasm is waning and things are unlikely to be done if I have not prepared for them in advance at a time when I do have enthusiasm. Using my planner to record

Week 5
Still working on the schedule. The week started out great but lost momentum as it progressed and the new order I was doing things in had me totally forgetting to do calendar, Bible and catechism which there was no excuse for. It took me until Friday to get that back in order so, like I said, still working on the schedule. One thing I changed with school is that I've been giving Mr H. his writing straight after phonics as it just appears to make more sense than leaving it until after math. Anyway, the week past: Monday/Literature: Chapter 5 of The House at Pooh Corner. Tuesday/History: Most of chapter 4 and then chapter 5 of A Child's History of the World in which we read about the areas v

Week 4
The littlest ones have continued to suffer from congestion all week but besides that, if I remember correctly, everything went smoothly. I am re-examining my schedule in order to more effectively redeem the time, keeping the house in a more thoroughly clean and tidy condition rather than satisfactory and getting some reading and knitting done. There is a huge mental shift that has to take place however because I find it difficult to come to terms with the fact that I just cannot get everything done and have as much time for idleness, or sleep, as my flesh would like. Here is what we covered last week: Monday/Literature: Chapter 4 of The House at Pooh Corner. Tuesday/Nature Study: Chapters

Week 3
Friday we closed on our house so DH took the day off and although we did more than I expected, we didn't do as much as intended. One new thing I've been doing this week is incorporating Bug into the schedule, switching between her and Locke and reducing each one's feelings of being left out of what the other one is doing. Their favorite activity lately has been for all 3 of them to crawl around on all fours pretending to be lions/crocodiles/tigers/whatever Locke is in the mood for them to be. The week past: Monday/Literature: Chapter 3 of The House at Pooh Corner. Tuesday/----: Not a great day all around. We all agreed on early naps instead extra activity. Wednesday/Nature Study: Lock

Week 2
I figured, to the wind with the scheduled order for extra subjects! Well, not entirely. I just decided to be flexible so that we can switch up Nature Study for another subject if the weather doesn't permit us to get outside on Wednesdays. This was a better week. I found some awesome free online books for incorporating into our lessons thanks to a thread on The Well-Trained Mind forums. I also may have found a great spot for a garden come Spring thanks to getting out and exploring our back yard for the first time in the two years we've lived here. I also came up with the idea of recording what he does each day in my daily planner. I figured it might be wise or at least useful in future, to