Wednesday, September 10, 2008

structure

I suppose my ADD thrives on a bit of structure, we are having some great new adventures - but this schedule is grueling . . . maybe I will get used to it. Yesterday it went like this:

7:30: Wake up - wake kids up, cook breakfast, fix Kooka's hair, check Punk's. Double check homework assignments.
8:35: Head out the door, walk kids to school. Hang with them until 8:45 when the bell rings.
9:00: Get home, enter grades, check faculty email, review lesson plans.
10:00: Leave for work
10:20: At work - check mailbox, carry stuff into class, sound check the amp, review choreography.
11:00: Class starts
2:35: Done with class, head home.
2:55: At home, do laundry, dishes, exercise the dogs, enter grades for last two classes, plan lessons for next day, make dentist appointments.
3:35: Walk to school to pick up kids.
3:55: Get back home with Punk and Kooka, make them snacks and talk about their day.
4:15: Homework time with Punk. Math - worksheet also reading. Then I work with Kooka - a little bit of both.
5:00: Put dinner in the oven and set up Punk on the laptop so he can blog or work on his short story.
5:10: Mow the lawn. Run to pet store to buy crickets for various amphibious pets.
6:00: Dinnertime
6:30: Dance lessons for Kooka in the basement.
7:10: Bathtime for Kooka - run between upstairs and down, trying to help Punk with spelling and blogging, and washing Kooka's hair. Listen to Punk's story - it's pretty good.
7:30: Punk's bath - help Kooka clean her room. Take out garbage and clean the kitchen until Punk is ready to do flashcards.
7:50: Flash cards with Punk. Feed the dogs.
8:20: Make bedtime snacks for kids.
8:45: Tuck kids in, hang with Punk for a bit.
9:15: Run to grocery store
9:45: Make Kooka's lunch
10:00: Shower
10:25: Grade written assignments, check prices on bulk orders of tap shoes.
11:00: Make a list of all the stuff I cannot forget to do tomorrow.
11:15: Go to bed.

Not that I sleep in bed - nothing seems to solve that little issue, at least now I will be able to afford prescription narcotics.

2 comments:

Melanie said...

Ew, can't A buy the death-row crickets?

Anonymous said...

You make me tired just reading about your day. No where in there do I see any time for you, J. What's up with that?

~Treats