For June, July, August 2022
Big Goals
Category 1. Learn how to draw my strength from God. Learn how to drink in His beauty,, His presence through worship,, through looking at Him. To see nothing without Him in the picture.
Its the only way I'm making it through this life.
Category 2. Spend more time with the kiddos. Because they won't be kiddos much longer. Savor the time. Enjoy *being with them.*
From babies to toddlers to teens in the blink of an eye.
Time with them, sacred, unrepeatable.
It's a precious gift, running like water in a river, unrepeatable, fleeting as the sunlight shimmering on that water.
Category 3. Family Adventures. Camping, hiking, water-fight.
Category 4. Share my now-ancient hobbies with the kids. (Gardening, painting, drawing, sewing, Leather-work, etc)
Category 5. Make significant progress in homeschool. Because while overrated (see category 2.) education is somewhat important.
Category 6. Chores & cleaning. Because its hard to enjoy life when there are no clean spoons or clean underwear.
Category 7. Home and garden improvement.
Category 1.
- Spend 10 minutes with God, first thing in the morning. Set a timer if you have to.
- Really pray at family prayer time in the evenings.
- Pray at breakfast. Read them Bible at breakfast.
- Put on worship music at 5pm, every day.
Category 2.
- For the littles, have reading time in the brown chair
- Isaiah read to me 3 Bulla books, and discuss it.
- Teach the girls how to braid their hair 2 braids, braided top bun.
- Rock and sing to the girls after prayer-time, Thursday night.. One song for each girl.
Category 3.
- Make family dinner a big deal. Ready ON the table at 6pm (start getting ready at 5pm, worship music!) We will SING HYMNS sitting there until Josh shows up.
- 7pm to 8pm, family outside time.
- MINGUS MOUNTAIN!! Plan 3 trips. Streamline camping supplies and packing.
- Make singing hymns at family prayer-time a big deal. 3 hymns a night. Have them sing.
- How great Thou Art
- O the deep deep love of Jesus
- Be Thou my Vision
Category 4.
- Work on a camping kit for each kid. To carry: a waterbottlesleeve, snack pouch, flashlight pouch, handkercief [knife], sword loop.
- Drawing lessons: Teach Isaiah how to use the light-board. Draw elites, grunts, brutes, or Spartans
- Home Improvement...with the kids???
- w/Kids Shade structure for playset.
- w/Kids Sand and paint the picnic table
- w/Kids Finish front planter, transplant roses there
- w/Kids Clean the back yard (mulch moved, dirt pile into berm-walls, couch trashed)
Category 5.
- Have at least 1.5 hrs of MORNING homeschool time for the 3 big kids. 3 Rs.
- Family reading time: finish Taharka, start Hittite Warrior
- Isaiah read me "Sword in the Tree" and "Lion to Guard us", and discuss it.
- Have daily time with M and S and A, working through the phonics book how to read.
- For preschool: have M teach numbers/math, K teach letters/reading, and J teach Hebrew, and Isaiah teach history
Category 6.
- Praise them!!! That they will know YOU CAN MAKE THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL
- Frequent After meals, and before dinner. 4x a day.
- CHEERFULLY with them.Wheat in a cows stomach. Try no guilt and no yelling. Go from kidbto kid, teaching them techniques. Gentle voice, giving my tips, always positive.
- PUAYA. Put away after your activity. Build habits: Tidy becomes their new baseline. Where they hang their coat up without thinking about it....
Category 7.
- Finish setting up toy-room
- Finish setting up Isaiah's room
- Set up family computer in LR for homeschool
- Shed 2 organized
- Organize girls room.
- Set up Hyrule Castle
- w/Kids Shade structure for playset.
- w/Kids Sand and paint the picnic table
- w/Kids Finish front planter, transplant roses there
- w/Kids Clean the back yard (mulch moved, dirt pile into berm-walls, couch trashed)
- Washing machine Freezer?
- Insulate girls room, top off white and yellow rooms.
- Toilet flusher in master bedroom
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Ideas for aug sept
Category 2: Hold a meeting with the 3 big ones where you field their questions before homeschool time-----
Category 4: Start the Crafting Rotation, Sew 2 calico critter clothes for/with each girl over 2.
Category 7:
- get ibc containers and drums .
- Prepare for veggie garden, start sprouting from seed, etc. Plant in ground end of September. Tomatoes, okra, spinach, kale, chard, micrometers, beets radishes carrots, cucumbers, squash etc.
