Ideal Week or Realistic Week…?

Describe your ideal week.

To me when I say ideal I actually mean imaginary. Let us dream together…

I would wake up every morning early and do some exercises before the kiddos wake up. (Never seems to happen. Haha 😂)

I do actually make a decent breakfast everyday. Lunches are whatever I have in the fridge though. But ideally I would like to feed my kids at the same time everyday. (But the husbands schedule doesn’t allow that.)

I would want to have a schedule planned out for my daughter’s school week everyday. But she is only 4 years old so I can’t plan too much for her. (Instead I tend to choose things randomly. But we will start reading here soon.)

Most moms seem to have a schedule of activities through the day, but I can’t seem to do the same repetitive thing. I like to switch it up. I like to have a project outside to be worked on through the week. Something that we can accomplish even while daddy is at work. (This one I actually do. But I ran out of materials yesterday. 😑)

I would like to stand firm on the no movies until the weekend. But it being fall, we have been getting fluke rain storms or blazing hot, that once we are back inside I need a rest period, and the tv always turns on…(once she can read her world will open up.)

I want to be inspired to make dinner every night. Some nights I am inspired, or the husband has chosen. But some nights I just make a normal easy thing. But there is always food on the table. (Never at the same time. Haha 😂 )

Well…ideally and realistically are different, but I still seem to get some things done. My daughter has chores now, and one of them is cleaning up the living room and her room everyday. So the house is at least never messy. She now has 7 chores everyday. Some easy some hard, teaching her young.

Also not listed: put shoes away on shelf. When we come inside it’s her chore to put the shoes away.

I love the hug one ❤️

And I do have another list on the fridge for what I hope to start doing again.

Obviously things will change as seasons change.

I’m trying to get more scheduled. But everything takes time. And she won’t truly be in kindergarten until she is 5. So I have some time to figure things out.

And with my husband’s schedule we don’t ever stick to things. On his days off I treat it like the weekends. (Even though they are not) and his days working we do school. And it changes every month.

So I ideally would like, to feed my family, get some school done, and do some projects.

So I’m doing okay.

Photography By: emily2jane 09-11-23

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