A Day in the Life

....of me! I thought I'd describe a typical day in my house. If you were at my house at 6:00 in the morning you'd probably hear various alarms go off all around the house, if you were in the room that I share with some of my sisters, you'd probably hear some kind of music, From the Boys room you would probably hear the loud, obnoxious, buzzer that goes off each morning. From there you would hear the rush to get go down to the kitchen by six thirty to have family devotions and then head out to the barn to do the chores. After chores comes breakfast! Then we straighten up the house, and start school. We'll go until about 11:30 and then break for lunch and cleanup. Then the younger kids nap while the older kids finish up their school work. At about 2:00 or so, you would probably hear two fiddles, a guitar a banjo and/or a mandolin practicing their songs, trying to keep it down so that the napping children won't wake up just yet :) Around 3:15 the music would probably stop and the doors would slam, Free Time! (as long as all school and music is done for the day of course) 4:30 comes around, time for chores, the garden must be weeded, the laundry folded, the porches swept, the hay brought up, the house straightened, and of course the animals must be fed. 5:30, Dinner time! then cleanup, and then either free time, or reading time. You would probably either hear a book being read aloud, (and people asking, "can't we read just one more chapter?") or the chatter of little kids playing quietly amongst themselves. 7:30 comes around, all of the kids under 6 are in the process of going to bed, you would probably hear something like this: "Mom! I can't find my toothbrush!" "Grace, Don't take your diaper off, that's not good." "Dad, have you seen Josiah's pajamas? I can't find them anywhere" In other words, it gets a bit chaotic. After the younger ones are in bed, dad usually does his computer time, mom has her planning time and talks with dad, and us older ones, usually read or get on the computer. You probably wouldn't hear much of anything at that hour. 9:00 comes around, bedtime for the older kids, (it always seems early, but when you're getting up by 6 each morning it's not early at all.) Sometimes we're allowed to listen to Adventures in Odyssey while we fall asleep, but most of the time you would hear quiet.

That's pretty much a typical day in the life, simple, I know, but who said life had to be complicated? I wouldn't trade anything for my simple lifestyle.