Thursday, December 4, 2008

Has anyone ever...

...taken a look at this book? I saw it on another blog and thought it looked interesting, just wondering if any of you have it or have taken a look at it?

We are not a homeschooling family (so far, though we do try to be learning/teaching/involved all the time), but the scheduling part, esp. with 4 kids now, looks very intriguing! I tend to be a scheduler anyway, but having a resource to help catch everything might be nice? (You can click on the book picture to go to their website.) Maybe I can pull enough out of it from the Table of Contents to make something work for us?

I realize just having the schedule isn't enough and the actual implementation of it is key. It is just hard to remember everything and get it in there on the list. I have heard of homeschooling moms taking a weekend "off" (or even just a day) where they go to a hotel by themselves in the summer before starting school to "pull it all together" and plan their school year/schedules and I was thinking how nice that sounds -- to be able to have peace and quiet to remember everything... of course by this time I just may need the chaos to think! Maybe I could have just 1/2 of a day to "pull it all together", but right now, I would probably just sleep!!!!!

I'm also looking into various "organizing" books and homemaking and mother/daughter type books, some from the blog I referenced earlier. (Probably good to teach H-girl some girly things since the house is now full of boys!!) I just can't seem to get more than a couple things done in a week. This includes every chore there is. Only a couple each week. Seriously. I know some of you probably vacuum twice a day and mop more, but that doesn't happen here. My poor husband. Hopefully I can get it together (...hmmm ...is there a theme here??) now that I am not pregnant and get this house into shape. It would be nice after 10 years that a wife could get her house in order!!


Maybe you should pray for my husband.

The poor man.

3 comments:

Angel said...

We have not used that book, but we have LOVED other books from that ministry (Homeschooling with a Meek and Quiet Spirit, the Moody books). I have a lot of homeschooling friends who LOVE this book, I am just not a scheduler.

Our growing family said...

this book looks interesting...I feel like I'm like you: I love to organize it's just keep the schedule...part of it is good right now that I don't have a tight schedule as with nursing sometimes they need to eat a little early/late, kids tend to take a long time at some things, ya know! But I would probably enjoy reading it!
Your hubby has a better wife than you realize if you are noticing what you should work on and are trying to become a better wife/mother/child of God,etc!
I hope you arn't too hard on yourself too! =) For goodness sakes, you JUST had a baby and things are finally starting to settle down from the medical problems!
Have a great day!!

JJJ said...

Yes, nursing and random diapers do cause a kink in things :-) I'll have to ask around church and see if anyone there has seen this book. I think it is just a matter of thinking everything out and writing it down... it's just that it seems they have already thought it out for you.

Angel- I'm surprised with all your home organization you aren't a scheduler, too. Maybe those of us that aren't so organized need the schedule to keep things going and those that are organized don't need a schedule because everything is already in place?!! :-)