Our Schedule

11/05/2009

I’ve had some time to catch up on our blog, since I’ve been home with Carolina. I wanted to give y’all a look at what our basic day consists of, since some of you were wondering.

5:30am- I am getting up, showering, quiet time… then getting everyone else ready (often I will set the boys clothes out the night before, and Wes will get them all dressed! But, it’s an “event” just to get us all out the door with everything that we need!)

7am- breakfast starts (It usually takes a full hour for our whole family to eat at the cafeteria!)

8am- small group in our quad with all the kids. (We usually go over a chapter in Acts or; right now, we are learning about sharing Christ through ‘storying’, so that’s what we are practicing now.)

8:40am- we leave to take the kids to school. (We have three kids in one building on one side of campus, and Weston is in the other building on the OTHER side of campus… it takes us a LONG time to drop-off/pick-up kids!)

9:00-12:00pm- Wes and I have class (Thankfully, they do always have coffee available during every session! ☺ )

12:00-1:00pm- lunch. (Most of the time we have “working lunches” where we have meetings while we eat our lunch… I think every lunch this week was a working lunch.)

1:00-3:00pm- Wes and I have more classes! (and more coffee!)

3:00-5:00pm- The kids have to be picked up from school by 3:15, and on some days, there are still sessions going on for the adults. So, Wes and I trade on and off who stays in class, and who picks up al the kids. It can be pretty exhausting… either one. (Most days there is a session that goes on during this time. Sometimes it’s an optional workshop, but usually it’s a mandatory class.)

5:00-6:00pm- dinner (yes, it takes the WHOLE hour for us to eat! We are usually the first ones to arrive and the last ones to leave.)

6:00-7:00pm- sometimes, if it’s nice out, we let the kids play on the playground for a couple minutes. But, this is bath-time, homework time, and general “get ready for tomorrow” time. Occasionally, they have a meeting scheduled here for us, so one of us has to go to the meeting and one has to stay with the kids.

7:30-10:00pm- It depends on the night. I work in the library on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so I’ll be there during those times. We are also required to exercise 3x a week, so I walk three nights a week with some of the ladies… usually around 7:30pm. Once I get back, Wes heads out for basketball 8:30-9:30pm. We also have homework… papers to write, projects to complete, research to be done, books to read. It generally leaves very little time for Wes and I. We are usually trading places coming home and staying with the kids so the other can go out and do what needs to be done. So… you can see why it’s hard to get on the internet! ☺

The Weekends are usually good family time. They do have some Sat. scheduled with workshops, but Wes and I opted not to do the ones these past couple Sat. I think our family would just fall apart!

Sunday mornings we have “house church” together at 9:30am. We meet together in our quad and do what “church” might look like when we are in Spain. Our kids are with us, and we sing and look at God’s Word together.

Sunday afternoons, Wes goes off campus with the Evangelism team, so he’s often gone the whole afternoon. Sunday night, after dinner, we do the Cultural Worship Service with everyone all together… and then our week starts all over.

Are you tired yet? ☺