School Is Now In Session

Well, it starts today. I know it's a holiday, but Cards and Trixie are starting school at home today. A test run with lots of explanation of expectations and tweeks. Dash goes to school tomorrow. Hoping to be able to find things to keep him busy so the others can get their work done in a timely fashion. Got stuff in the workboxes yesterday afternoon. Kind of feel prepared for most of the first week. Being gone a month really set me back. Really want to be planned out a little further. I'll just have to squeeze it in when I find breaks of time.

Introduced a new chore schedule. So we'll be working the kinks out of that. Also have a sheet for everyone for input in the dinner menu. Everyone rotates for the main course based on certain categories like sandwiches on Sunday, meat on Monday, vegetarians or pasta on Tuesday, pizza on Wed, foreign or fish on Thur, soup & salad on Friday, and favorites on Saturday. Then someone will pick the veggie and someone else picks the fruit. So every dinner will have at least 1 thing they like. Hoping they'll be willing to try different things. Dash refused to eat the lasagna on Saturday. But was happy to eat the corn, applesauce and garlic bread. Eat what's for dinner or don't eat until bedtime snack. Just can't afford to have them eat something else for dinner when I have 2 home for lunch now. So they just need to fill out their choices for the rest of the month so that my shopping is more productive. I can catch sales on things I might need later in the month.

Have lots of lists and charts. Need to figure out the best way to keep those organized so we can keep on top of all this. Have a list of things, maintenance kind of things, like updating the budget, lesson plans, yard work, just running the house things I'm not sure where to put on the schedule. Other than school, not everything starts this week. Ballet, Awana, youth group....all that starts next week. So we will definitely be working out our schedule for a couple weeks.

So with prayer and best intentions, we begin a new season of adventure.