Aaaahhh!  Schedule, schedule, routine, normalcy.  Has anyone seen mine?  Oh, we’ve got a schedule going around here, but it’s not really what I’d like to consider our “normal.”  Some of the components are still working and being practiced, but some are just not!  Will the one who’s responsible please come forward?  OH, that’s me.  Right, I need to get it together.  With moving, packing, losing baby, being pregnant, the holidays right before that I have just let things go.  So, here I am realizing one of the huge contributing factors to my scatter brained, not getting enough done, less than patient days.

There is this part of me that loves not having everything planned out.  Fly by the seat of your pants, take what the day gives you, see what happens, do it on a whim…but then when I run with that for a while I always end up landing on the seat of my pants instead of flying.  Maybe there needs to be balance?!  Now, there’s an idea.  Anyways, so I’m trying to get it together.  Oh, Lord would you help me get it together because whenever I try it just doesn’t work.

My guys need routine.  Did I mention that they really NEED routine?  It is so helpful when they know what’s next and what is expected of them.  (It alleviates some of the questions too-nod quietly if you have a 4 or 5 year old.)  It gives me a whole lot more confidence in my mothering as well, because then I am able to decipher what is disobedience and what is them just not knowing what’s going on.   When we follow a carefully crafted routine I am able to look back at the end of the day and say that we accomplished what we aimed to, God permitting.  I don’t have to analyze everything all the time because I know that the basics we desire to do with the boys and our home are being accomplished.  Oh, but right now it’s all a mish-mash.  I’m an overanalyzer and an over-guilter, so anything to relieve those two habits is a great thing.  (Just ask my husband!)

So, if you made it this far you must be really bored or a great friend.  Pray for me if you think about it as I try to assemble some order around here.  Not crazy to the minute stuff, just a nice flow to our day with lots of time for Momma to sit  and love on my littles.  We would never want that to get squeezed out and so often that’s the first to go.