At the beginning of the year I had created a beautiful schedule to help me focus my time on a daily basis. Now mind you very rarely did I stick with the schedule exactly because life is so unpredictable especially when you have an 8 year old, a 6 year old, a 1 year old, and a husband.
I think the most beneficial thing that came out of making my schedule is actually breaking my day down into half hour increments and seeing how much time there was in a day. This allowed me to take a hard look at what I was doing with my time and where it was disappearing to.
As is the way of things, my life is ever involving, enter my new commitment, Cassidy's soccer practice 3 x's a week and possibly Claire's Tae Kwondo classes. So now it is time yet again to tweak that schedule to better help myself manage time. Also I am in need of a wake up call...I can only spend so much time working at the school on a weekly basis and I need to learn to stick to a schedule so I have time to keep my home a haven and also time for myself even if its only a half hour a day.
I have added my pre-tweaked schedule here so you can see how I created mine. Its a simple spread sheet. Again I will be making some changes to mine to fit around the new activities that have entered into our lives these past few months. Remember there are only 24 hours a day, which sometimes seems like not enough, until you break it down and see what is actually stealing your precious moments.
| A Day in The Life of the Bennett's | |||||
| Time | Task | Time | Task | ||
| 06:30:00 AM | Devotion/Prayer, Make Bed | 03:00:00 PM | Girls snack | ||
| Empty Dishwasher | |||||
| 07:00:00 AM | Girls up & Dressed, Me dressed | 03:30:00 PM | Work | ||
| 07:30:00 AM | Serve Cassidy & Claire Breakfast | 04:00:00 PM | Work | ||
| Check Email, Girls to school | Girls' Homework | ||||
| 08:00:00 AM | Mine & Cayleen's breakfast | 04:30:00 PM | Work | ||
| Clean-up breakfast/what's for dinner? | |||||
| 08:30:00 AM | Laundry (put away/start load) | 05:00:00 PM | Start Dinner | ||
| prep dinner if needed, House rescue | Switch Laundry to dryer | ||||
| 09:00:00 AM | Blessing – 15 minutes | 05:30:00 PM | Make Coffee | ||
| Zone – 15 minutes | |||||
| 09:30:00 AM | Cayleen nap, brush dogs, sweep & | 06:00:00 PM | Dinner time | ||
| vaccum | |||||
| 10:00:00 AM | Snack, blog | 06:30:00 PM | Clean-up kitchen | ||
| Make Lunches, take pill | |||||
| 10:30:00 AM | Me Time (see weekly schedule) | 07:00:00 PM | Bath time for girls (T/TH/Sat) | ||
| Family Night – Mondays | |||||
| 11:00:00 AM | 07:30:00 PM | Desert | |||
| 11:30:00 AM | 08:00:00 PM | Cayleen to Bed | |||
| girls pick up toys, story time | |||||
| 12:00:00 PM | Lunch, Clean up lunch | 08:30:00 PM | Girls brush teeth | ||
| Cassidy & Claire to bed | |||||
| 12:30:00 PM | Errands, Work, Volunteer, | 09:00:00 PM | Read, TV | ||
| Plan, To Do's | |||||
| 01:00:00 PM | 09:30:00 PM | ||||
| 01:30:00 PM | 10:00:00 PM | Brush teeth, wash face | |||
| Bedtime | |||||
| 02:00:00 PM | |||||
| 02:30:00 PM | Errands, Work, Volunteer, | ||||
| Pick-up girls from school | |||||
| Home Blessing: | Zone: | ||||
| Monday | sweep porches | Yard/garage | |||
| Tuesday | Swish & swipe MB/grocery plan | kitchen | |||
| Wednesday | mop, wash bedding, office day | Wk 1 hallbath Wk2 Girls' rm Wk3 Baby's rm Wk4 Laundry rm | |||
| Thursday | bathroom trash, windex | Wk 1&2 Master bedroom / Wk 3&4 Master bathroom | |||
| Friday | garbage to street, dust, & clean kitchen table | Wk 1,2,3 - living room / Wk 4,5 Office | |||
| Weekly Errands & Planning | ME TIME Schedule | ||||
| Monday | Work | Monday | Scrapbook – snapfish | ||
| Tuesday | Financial, Meal & Grocery Planning/volunteer | Tuesday | projects | ||
| Wednesday | Work | Wednesday | garden | ||
| Thursday | Pay bills / Grocery shopping / volunteer | Thursday | computer time | ||
| Friday | Blog Planning | Friday | Scrapbook | ||
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