WEBVTT 00:02.393 --> 00:05.718 [SPEAKER_00]: Christian parenting. 00:05.739 --> 00:10.026 [SPEAKER_00]: Summer is here, and that means it's time to stock up on your summer reads. 00:10.506 --> 00:17.859 [SPEAKER_00]: This year, Christian parenting put together its very first summer reading picks list, and it's packed with great books for the whole family. 00:18.439 --> 00:25.431 [SPEAKER_00]: For the kids, you'll find illustrated story books for little ones, fun biographies, a prominent men and women of faith. 00:25.411 --> 00:36.709 [SPEAKER_00]: A mystery series perfect for elementary and middle schoolers, Bibles with scripture memory cards and games, devotionals that help kids learn how to spend time with God and even a dyslexia friendly Bible. 00:37.391 --> 00:45.223 [SPEAKER_00]: And parents, what we didn't forget about you, there's a curated selection of devotionals and books, covering faith, culture, and spiritual growth. 00:45.804 --> 00:50.592 [SPEAKER_00]: We've even included summer reading Bingo cards to make it a whole family experience. 00:50.572 --> 00:53.035 [SPEAKER_00]: because the family that reads together, grows together. 00:53.495 --> 01:02.184 [SPEAKER_00]: Head over to christianparenting.org slash summer to check out the full list and make this the summer your whole family grows together in faith. 01:03.385 --> 01:05.728 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Little By Little Home School Podcast. 01:05.888 --> 01:19.802 [SPEAKER_00]: I am your host, Lee Nguyen, and we are in a bit of a summer series here and today's episode is going to be giving you some ideas to create a routine for your homeschool family this summer. 01:19.782 --> 01:22.710 [SPEAKER_00]: Now is the time to start thinking about it and coming up with a plan? 01:23.372 --> 01:28.466 [SPEAKER_00]: I know for myself and for my family, we just thrived on having some type of routine. 01:28.847 --> 01:34.804 [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't a schedule, it wasn't something that we had to stick to a minute by minute. 01:34.784 --> 01:37.688 [SPEAKER_00]: but it was something that could just kind of give us a framework for the day. 01:38.008 --> 01:45.599 [SPEAKER_00]: So we could enjoy the summer break and we could also get some things done, but I really believe in just giving you some options. 01:45.819 --> 01:53.029 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to tell you exactly what to do because I don't know where you are right now in this season of life and what you are facing. 01:53.009 --> 02:10.866 [SPEAKER_00]: So listen to this episode and then take these options and and apply what's going to work for you this summer Maybe it's the same thing that worked last summer and maybe it's not that is okay Right now take a look at you your family and what is going on right now and what your goals are for the summer 02:10.846 --> 02:23.697 [SPEAKER_00]: and create a routine to something that is a little bit predictable to give the kids a bit of stability because we have a lot of that typically during the home school year and again, I thrive off of that and I kind of have a feeling you do as well. 02:23.877 --> 02:25.902 [SPEAKER_00]: So let's get into today's episode. 02:27.282 --> 02:35.772 [SPEAKER_00]: We all know there is a lot that comes when it's different when we have home school families or families that are sending their kids to public school. 02:36.113 --> 02:41.239 [SPEAKER_00]: There's just a lot of things that does the day-to-day little nitty-it-gritty that can be quite different. 02:41.639 --> 02:43.922 [SPEAKER_00]: And the summer is no exception to that. 02:44.403 --> 02:48.828 [SPEAKER_00]: Just like during the school year, you're not getting your kids up and getting them on the school bus. 02:48.848 --> 02:50.851 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes the bus will drive by as little after seven. 02:50.871 --> 02:56.918 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, hey buddy, you're missed your bus and he's like, oh, what? 02:56.898 --> 03:05.451 [SPEAKER_00]: of like jazz, kidding, but just because during the school year, you know, it's like that's a big difference that we know this is the schedule that they have. 03:05.992 --> 03:25.200 [SPEAKER_00]: When it comes to the summer, it's also can be quite different for us home school families as opposed to those who don't homeschool their kiddos because oftentimes when your kids are in school, then they come home for the summer and it's like a completely different life those families live than they live during the rest of the 03:25.484 --> 03:27.509 [SPEAKER_00]: but not for you, because you're a homeschool mom. 03:27.849 --> 03:28.711 [SPEAKER_00]: You're still living. 03:28.731 --> 03:31.016 [SPEAKER_00]: You're still doing all of the same things. 03:31.057 --> 03:35.667 [SPEAKER_00]: You just need to be cutting out your formal curriculum or really pairing it down. 03:35.727 --> 03:37.812 [SPEAKER_00]: And like this still kind of the same. 03:37.832 --> 03:39.556 [SPEAKER_00]: There isn't this big break. 03:39.576 --> 03:44.607 [SPEAKER_00]: There isn't like this one day where you do pretty much like a complete, you know. 03:44.587 --> 04:00.542 [SPEAKER_00]: One-eightier something and you're doing something that's very different and I will hear over and over and over again From podcasters or on social media and like well, I'm available to this and then my kids come home from school And then I'm not available to do a lot of this stuff during this time. 04:00.562 --> 04:01.763 [SPEAKER_00]: I think this could be a little bit crazy. 04:01.783 --> 04:05.687 [SPEAKER_00]: They can't fit in Say it's like a business podcast or something. 04:05.727 --> 04:07.809 [SPEAKER_00]: I listen to and to me. 04:07.829 --> 04:09.610 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like nope summer's no different. 04:09.630 --> 04:12.433 [SPEAKER_00]: I just juggle all of the things 04:12.413 --> 04:17.699 [SPEAKER_00]: during every season of the year, during the time that we're in school, and during the time we're not. 04:18.019 --> 04:19.601 [SPEAKER_00]: So that can be a huge difference. 04:19.801 --> 04:35.839 [SPEAKER_00]: And because pretty much there lies will be a lot different, especially when moms are used to having the days, and to do whatever that is, whether that is working, or that is running errands, and other housework, whatever it is, is a lot different for them in the summer, but not for you, homeschool mom. 04:35.819 --> 04:39.843 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just, it's a little bit different, but you're kind of still used to just being home. 04:40.123 --> 04:52.395 [SPEAKER_00]: And this was a wake-up call that I had to figure out and walk through when I was used to having my oldest in school for a couple of years and even when before that was preschool. 04:52.415 --> 05:00.923 [SPEAKER_00]: So there were a handful of years where I was used to having a very different during the school year and very different from the summer. 05:01.383 --> 05:05.607 [SPEAKER_00]: For me personally, I cannot function well for a long 05:06.076 --> 05:09.140 [SPEAKER_00]: period of time, like long-term I can't do it in chaos. 05:09.961 --> 05:10.882 [SPEAKER_00]: I just can't. 05:11.443 --> 05:13.185 [SPEAKER_00]: I will, it just isn't me. 05:13.886 --> 05:14.647 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't put up with it. 05:14.707 --> 05:20.795 [SPEAKER_00]: Eventually I will blow up or I will just get things figured out so that we are not living in chaos. 05:21.295 --> 05:35.273 [SPEAKER_00]: My solution was to create a predictable routine for my kids during the summer and then also communicating that with James with them 05:35.253 --> 05:45.784 [SPEAKER_00]: really explaining what my expectations are to them and saying to them, we are a team, listen, and don't think that I wasn't above threats. 05:45.804 --> 05:46.945 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that I was above that. 05:46.986 --> 05:50.229 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, listen, you know, let's cooperate so we can go to the pool. 05:50.469 --> 05:53.833 [SPEAKER_00]: If not, we can stay home and we can do math work sheets all day. 05:53.893 --> 05:54.994 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you know what? 05:55.154 --> 05:57.036 [SPEAKER_00]: They cooperated and we went to the pool. 05:57.377 --> 05:58.678 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't think that I wasn't 05:59.232 --> 06:00.473 [SPEAKER_00]: Was it above or below that? 06:01.274 --> 06:02.916 [SPEAKER_00]: I guess maybe I wasn't below threatening. 06:03.797 --> 06:08.883 [SPEAKER_00]: We're saying things like that like, hey, we're gonna have to, we're gonna have to get back into the curriculum if we can't, you know, shape up here. 06:09.243 --> 06:12.066 [SPEAKER_00]: But I really wanted to impress upon them that we are a team. 06:12.407 --> 06:15.590 [SPEAKER_00]: We're a family and we are doing life together. 06:15.610 --> 06:18.153 [SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't make that huge mess. 06:18.834 --> 06:23.299 [SPEAKER_00]: So I shouldn't be the one that has to clean it up fully. 06:23.279 --> 06:25.321 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, when we have little kids, we have to come alongside them. 06:25.341 --> 06:34.472 [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to make messes and we have to come alongside them, but especially as they get older, if you can make that big of a mess, like say in your bedroom, you can clean up that big of a mess. 06:34.892 --> 06:39.517 [SPEAKER_00]: But I just really wanted to create a predictable routine, so everybody knew what was coming. 06:39.978 --> 06:46.685 [SPEAKER_00]: There wouldn't be meltdowns, and they would know what that I have, their expectations that I have for them, and how we are going to proceed. 06:46.705 --> 06:48.267 [SPEAKER_00]: So we can have a really good summer. 06:48.607 --> 06:50.029 [SPEAKER_00]: Not just them. 06:50.009 --> 06:52.052 [SPEAKER_00]: but I wanted to have a good summer too. 06:52.673 --> 07:08.659 [SPEAKER_00]: Mama, you poor so much into your children during the home school year and you're going to continue doing that over the summer, but you also deserve to be able to just take a breather, put your feet up and get out in the sunshine and smile and just have that 07:09.061 --> 07:12.648 [SPEAKER_00]: bit of time to just feel a bit more free, right? 07:12.708 --> 07:16.956 [SPEAKER_00]: Funny thing is that when it comes to homes, well, moms, we tend to fill up our summer quite well. 07:17.136 --> 07:19.681 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to encourage you not to fill it up too much, though, okay? 07:20.042 --> 07:23.789 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's take some time to like, stop and smell the roses, literally and figuratively. 07:24.129 --> 07:29.179 [SPEAKER_00]: And speaking of summer, I do know that you are thinking to yourself, how are things going to go? 07:29.480 --> 07:30.461 [SPEAKER_00]: next homeschool year. 07:30.601 --> 07:37.649 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you do have your curriculum picked out and maybe you are excited about it, but you don't really know how am I going to carry through with that this year. 07:37.770 --> 07:40.232 [SPEAKER_00]: Or maybe you're looking at yourself saying, I don't know what curriculum to do. 07:40.272 --> 07:46.960 [SPEAKER_00]: I've just been doing the same thing every single year, just purchasing the next grades up because it seems to work. 07:47.000 --> 07:48.462 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that the right thing to do? 07:48.502 --> 07:49.343 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it is. 07:49.683 --> 07:50.404 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's not. 07:50.805 --> 07:56.331 [SPEAKER_00]: But the summer is a fantastic time for you to pour into 07:56.665 --> 07:58.809 [SPEAKER_00]: Stop saying no, that I'm not important. 07:58.829 --> 07:59.691 [SPEAKER_00]: Stop saying no. 07:59.751 --> 08:07.705 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not worth the time or the effort or the finances to really get my homeschool in order. 08:08.066 --> 08:09.489 [SPEAKER_00]: But I actually say the opposite. 08:09.589 --> 08:14.438 [SPEAKER_00]: I say this is the perfect time because you are going to homeschool long term. 08:15.019 --> 08:17.383 [SPEAKER_00]: That could be many, many years from now. 08:17.824 --> 08:20.108 [SPEAKER_00]: Why not do it from a place of, 08:20.408 --> 08:36.623 [SPEAKER_00]: feeling confident and saying, yes, this is exactly what we want to do and being able to pivot and being able to analyze and being able to look at every single year, every single decision and say, no, this is the better course for my family and being able to make those changes. 08:36.923 --> 08:42.188 [SPEAKER_00]: Being able to look out for the burnout, setting up your homes cool year so that you do not burn out. 08:42.228 --> 08:43.349 [SPEAKER_00]: That's really the goal is. 08:43.450 --> 08:49.335 [SPEAKER_00]: Instead of saying, how can I help myself through this burnout? 08:49.703 --> 08:50.965 [SPEAKER_00]: not have that happen. 08:51.065 --> 09:01.721 [SPEAKER_00]: And those are just a little snippet of the tons of information and the things that we're going to go over and the way we're going to get you two feet salad on the ground and get you super excited at your homeschooling and clarify your homeschool. 09:01.982 --> 09:04.285 [SPEAKER_00]: You can get all those details at clearfirehomeschool.com. 09:04.806 --> 09:11.476 [SPEAKER_00]: But today let's talk about the three options I have for you as you're going to set up a good routine for your summer, okay? 09:11.977 --> 09:17.145 [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, my chair is a 09:17.125 --> 09:20.772 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to take a look at your summer when it comes to your weekly plans. 09:20.832 --> 09:32.333 [SPEAKER_00]: The first option is to take a look at weekly and say to yourself, okay, I'm going to pick out days that we are going to go out and do things and then we're going to pick other days that we are home. 09:33.072 --> 09:49.082 [SPEAKER_00]: When we are constantly like every single day having to run out for a couple of errands or a couple of things that need to happen or a couple of errands and maybe a field trip, it can really wear on us and it can really wear on our children. 09:49.122 --> 09:54.051 [SPEAKER_00]: You have decided to homeschool probably because you enjoy being home. 09:54.740 --> 10:18.688 [SPEAKER_00]: We can spend so much time out of the home that we don't even think about the time that we do spend in our home and I want to encourage you to think about the time that you do spend in your home and to strategically place days that you're going out alongside days that you are just staying home and that might mean that you do have a lot of errands to run that might mean there's a lot of maybe shopping that has to happen. 10:19.158 --> 10:44.406 [SPEAKER_00]: And it might include you running out and doing those in the evening sometimes that you can get those done it might even include Running out on a weekend I know places are going to be a little bit crazy but in some season some my life I have done all of my shopping on a Saturday morning by myself I'm going to tell you right now I'm going to promise you it's not as crazy and as stressful when you just go into it by yourself 10:44.960 --> 10:53.552 [SPEAKER_00]: But I want to encourage you to kind of take a look at, you know, if you're thinking about this weekly plan, so write down weekly and then write down some of these ideas, we're going to pick out days that you're going to go out. 10:53.952 --> 10:58.198 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you say, we're only going out two days this week and you pick Monday and Thursday. 10:58.619 --> 11:02.404 [SPEAKER_00]: Or maybe you say we're going to go out three days this week and so we Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 11:02.624 --> 11:06.089 [SPEAKER_00]: So you have those days in between where you're staying home or maybe you say, you know what? 11:06.570 --> 11:10.495 [SPEAKER_00]: For my family, it is better for us just to at the beginning of the week. 11:10.846 --> 11:16.532 [SPEAKER_00]: Get our running around on, get our errands, get maybe a field trip in so Monday and Tuesday are gonna be a little bit crazy. 11:16.853 --> 11:24.241 [SPEAKER_00]: And then we're gonna have our Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at home and quiet, that dad will be home in the weekend, so that'll be a little bit different. 11:24.561 --> 11:29.147 [SPEAKER_00]: But having entire days at home is just so relaxing. 11:29.387 --> 11:32.150 [SPEAKER_00]: It just, it's not even just relaxing for your body. 11:32.210 --> 11:34.913 [SPEAKER_00]: It's relaxing for your mind, your, 11:35.213 --> 11:40.685 [SPEAKER_00]: spirit and just your soul and for your kids too, they just get the whole day to play. 11:40.966 --> 11:43.531 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine being a little kid and just having an entire day to play? 11:43.551 --> 11:49.324 [SPEAKER_00]: And like that's sort of like dream right there is having an entire day to play just at home, just you guys. 11:49.557 --> 12:00.868 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you don't even really get changed, you say your pajamas all day, or maybe in the morning you get up and you put some bathing suits on and you spend a day outside in the sprinkler or pool if you have a pool that'd be fun. 12:01.288 --> 12:07.674 [SPEAKER_00]: But you just look intentionally at your week and try not to overwhelm yourself or overwhelm your children. 12:07.994 --> 12:18.484 [SPEAKER_00]: And when you have those errands to run like group them together, whatever is all in the same maybe location instead of 12:18.464 --> 12:18.924 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 12:19.245 --> 12:24.050 [SPEAKER_00]: The second option I have here is to take a look at your days. 12:24.510 --> 12:27.493 [SPEAKER_00]: So, so number one is weekly, and number two is daily. 12:27.793 --> 12:34.220 [SPEAKER_00]: So when you take a look at your day, each daily on your calendar here is like losing my words here. 12:34.480 --> 12:40.606 [SPEAKER_00]: But looking at it as blocks of time for your day, maybe it includes first thing in the morning. 12:40.626 --> 12:47.813 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you have some early birds that are up really early with the actual 12:47.793 --> 13:00.841 [SPEAKER_00]: Coddling and stuff and then breakfast and and then maybe you take a look at the block of time from like eight to noon or nine to noon And with noon kind of 12 when a clock whenever you eat lunch being the cut off So taking a look at like a morning block. 13:01.202 --> 13:02.504 [SPEAKER_00]: What do we want to do in the morning? 13:02.865 --> 13:08.417 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you're up right in early in the morning and everybody kind of gets up and gets going and that's the time that you want to spend 13:08.397 --> 13:09.118 [SPEAKER_00]: outside. 13:09.459 --> 13:12.525 [SPEAKER_00]: Or that's the time you want to go and spend running some errands. 13:12.926 --> 13:16.373 [SPEAKER_00]: But then you're going to take a look at a block of time of the afternoon. 13:16.894 --> 13:22.405 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you have a block of time the evening and maybe a final block of time would be the bedtime kind of routine that you have. 13:22.865 --> 13:25.731 [SPEAKER_00]: But I want to encourage you to make sure that you include 13:25.711 --> 13:52.933 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes of rest time and even if you do the weekly include some type of rest time during the day the best time that I have found for that to be is during the heat of the day And so I remember for many many years of lack of time was from eight nine or my goal would be like eight thirty nine o'clock get the kids outside But then by late morning I would find them mostly in the shade and then by lunch sometimes we lunch out on a cover porch and then bring them on in and 13:53.892 --> 14:01.284 [SPEAKER_00]: wind down a little bit, take some naps or just take some quiet room time and everybody would just kind of have some settled time after that. 14:01.644 --> 14:08.936 [SPEAKER_00]: And maybe that's till like three o'clock and then you're kind of looking at like the late afternoon, you know, then we go into dinner time and all of that. 14:09.216 --> 14:10.438 [SPEAKER_00]: And then look at that block of time. 14:10.518 --> 14:17.790 [SPEAKER_00]: So instead of looking at yourself weekly and saying this days for this, this days for this, and this days for this, taking a look and saying, 14:17.838 --> 14:24.332 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, morning is when everybody's up and we have some naps, naps, naps, kids, naps, we've got some kids that take naps. 14:24.352 --> 14:27.418 [SPEAKER_00]: So morning would be on these certain days, but we're going to run some errands. 14:27.799 --> 14:30.665 [SPEAKER_00]: On those other days, on the days, we're just going to play outside. 14:31.106 --> 14:37.500 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's really overall just being intentional about your day instead of getting up in the morning and just saying, 14:37.480 --> 14:54.259 [SPEAKER_00]: Alright, let's see what happens or what do I feel like doing because you're the errands the running and making some returns, having to go to the post office, having to drop something off, pick something up just like one thing in a store is not something that we typically wake up in the morning and say yes, I want to go and do some errands. 14:54.739 --> 15:06.272 [SPEAKER_00]: I actually just the other day there was like five different places that I need to go and I was trying to attach them to 15:06.252 --> 15:07.534 [SPEAKER_00]: and it just never happened. 15:07.574 --> 15:11.982 [SPEAKER_00]: The time frame was just too close and I just said to myself, just stop, stop right now. 15:12.182 --> 15:15.468 [SPEAKER_00]: Stop the complaining, stop trying to fit it in somewhere else, just go and do that. 15:15.508 --> 15:17.171 [SPEAKER_00]: Road down the list of where I need to go. 15:17.211 --> 15:23.682 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought about the route, what would be the wet best route, and number them one to five, and just went and got it done. 15:23.862 --> 15:28.430 [SPEAKER_00]: And in 45 minutes, I was completely done with these couple of tasks I would just hanging over my head. 15:28.790 --> 15:31.635 [SPEAKER_00]: So being intentional when it comes to, 15:31.615 --> 15:38.402 [SPEAKER_00]: our blocks of time and those blocks of time or in what if you're going to do the weekly, taking a look and where are we going? 15:38.683 --> 15:49.674 [SPEAKER_00]: What can we attach onto things or maybe there really is just sometimes that you as mom just need to run out and do it in the evening or maybe you give a list of dad and you ask him to do those things for you instead. 15:50.335 --> 15:53.799 [SPEAKER_00]: And then the third option we have here is, are you ready general? 15:54.199 --> 15:56.622 [SPEAKER_00]: It is doing a mix of both. 15:57.102 --> 15:59.445 [SPEAKER_00]: So combining the weekly and the daily. 15:59.813 --> 16:12.531 [SPEAKER_00]: And I've talked me for on other episodes about taking some time on Sunday, sitting down, talking to your husband, taking a look at what the week has ahead for you guys, and just figuring out some of the logistics. 16:13.012 --> 16:19.862 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, maybe during the summer there aren't a lot of activities and that, you know, that weekly meeting that you have, may not take that long. 16:19.902 --> 16:29.736 [SPEAKER_00]: It might take all of 30 seconds, but maybe you include him in on this and you kind of go over like, this is the days that I'm doing this and so that he knows what to kind of expect and maybe 16:29.716 --> 16:50.678 [SPEAKER_00]: we'll say quote unquote temperature maybe not literally but figuratively of the house and say look we are doing this or we're planning on doing this Monday, Wednesday and Thursday so those days when you come home it might be a little bit crazy people might be kids might be tired and that's going to be why but doing a mix of both taking a look at your week 16:50.658 --> 16:59.348 [SPEAKER_00]: picking out some days and some times you're going to go out with it also putting in those blocks of time during the day, which means, well, I'll get an example here. 16:59.488 --> 17:04.113 [SPEAKER_00]: So maybe you take a look at the week and you also take a look at the weather, and you say it's going to be a beautiful week. 17:04.133 --> 17:06.436 [SPEAKER_00]: We have endless options of what we want to do. 17:06.817 --> 17:14.305 [SPEAKER_00]: When my kids were younger, we would get a membership at a community pool and a bunch of our friends had it as well, so we'd meet up with them. 17:14.345 --> 17:16.868 [SPEAKER_00]: So we take a look and I said to them, look, 17:16.848 --> 17:18.391 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to go twice a week. 17:18.411 --> 17:19.573 [SPEAKER_00]: That's my goal is twice a week. 17:19.613 --> 17:22.639 [SPEAKER_00]: I take a look at the weather and I would say these two days. 17:22.880 --> 17:25.405 [SPEAKER_00]: So say it was Monday and Wednesday. 17:25.425 --> 17:27.789 [SPEAKER_00]: Those are the two days that we're going to go to the pool. 17:28.130 --> 17:30.034 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's kind of taking a look at it weekly. 17:30.094 --> 17:30.755 [SPEAKER_00]: Those are our days. 17:30.815 --> 17:31.677 [SPEAKER_00]: We got up in the morning. 17:32.298 --> 17:36.426 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything was focused and geared towards getting to the pool. 17:36.406 --> 17:38.468 [SPEAKER_00]: We would get there when it would open like 10 a.m. 17:38.488 --> 17:44.335 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't even quite remember what I think is about 10 a.m. We would have a lunch pack and then we would stay there until about three o'clock. 17:44.375 --> 17:49.020 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes I would have like a simple dinner to do that night, or sometimes I would put it in the crack pot beforehand. 17:49.521 --> 17:52.264 [SPEAKER_00]: But from that perspective, looking at it weekly. 17:52.304 --> 17:54.346 [SPEAKER_00]: Like this is what we're doing on Monday and Wednesday. 17:55.047 --> 17:58.431 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything is focused in the morning on that and we come home. 17:58.491 --> 18:03.797 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything is focused on decompressing and recovering from our day at the pool. 18:03.777 --> 18:08.910 [SPEAKER_00]: The other days, maybe I would have some errands to run and say, we're going to do this first thing in the morning. 18:09.271 --> 18:16.369 [SPEAKER_00]: So probably so say it was Monday and Wednesday, I would probably pick something like maybe Friday morning that we run into our errands and get that done. 18:16.469 --> 18:19.356 [SPEAKER_00]: And then we would get home maybe in time for lunch. 18:19.336 --> 18:21.599 [SPEAKER_00]: and then having the afternoon rest time. 18:21.919 --> 18:27.767 [SPEAKER_00]: But then looking at that Tuesday and Thursday and just be like, we are completely home those two days. 18:28.247 --> 18:30.851 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is how it's going to do, looking at the blocks of time. 18:31.111 --> 18:40.063 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to have slower mornings of getting up and then we're going to get everybody ready and then we have times on outside and then in the afternoon we'll have some rest time or maybe. 18:40.563 --> 18:43.507 [SPEAKER_00]: I would say we'll have some rest time or some screen time during that time. 18:43.547 --> 18:44.989 [SPEAKER_00]: Watch a fun movie just some. 18:44.969 --> 18:51.539 [SPEAKER_00]: some way of being inside and then looking at the evening time and maybe they walk back out and play while you're making dinner. 18:51.899 --> 19:02.935 [SPEAKER_00]: So that would be the third option is taking a look at a mix of both of those instead of completely committing yourself to weekly or completely committing yourself to daily, do a mix of both. 19:03.276 --> 19:04.918 [SPEAKER_00]: And I would love to know 19:04.898 --> 19:06.220 [SPEAKER_00]: What you end up choosing? 19:06.581 --> 19:09.326 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you end up choosing like a weekly daily or a mix of both? 19:09.426 --> 19:23.650 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me know hop over to the Facebook community if you are not in that community Yeah, go ahead and check out the link in the show notes and if you are go pop in there and let me know what your summer plans are Hi, you're gonna set a routine because I don't want you to live in chaos 19:24.085 --> 19:27.229 [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like you probably are similar to me and there's some as a mom. 19:27.750 --> 19:41.970 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a certain level of chaos and we have to learn how to navigate through with that because having complete calmness in our home is not possible, we will end up driving our self-crazy, trying to do that and not allowing our kids to be kids. 19:42.291 --> 19:44.794 [SPEAKER_00]: And what I want you to have, 19:44.774 --> 20:07.626 [SPEAKER_00]: the option by choosing one of these to lessen the chaos and be able to have a little bit of direction when it comes to that and of course as things come up we kind of pivot and change and have to alter but I want to hear from you let me know in the Facebook community about how you're going to set up the 13 for the summer and until then have a great rest of your day friend.