Schedules

Since moving to Georgia any schedule we had has went out the window, no matter how hard I tried to keep them :) I am a very schedule oriented person (even before 4 kiddos), so schedules are key for me!!!

Our church schedule has stayed pretty much the same, Sunday mornings we have Sunday school at 9:45, worship at 11:00am (same as NC) and Sunday evenings 6pm (instead of 7pm) youth group and the kiddos have childrens choir (just like in NC). On Wednesdays, dinner at 5pm, AWANA is from 6-7:3opm here (6:30pm in NC) and we have youth from 6:30-7:30pm.

Jody has to be to work at 8:30am instead of 7am everyday, with the exception of Fridays, his day off! This is awesome for me because back in NC Saturday morning was the ONLY morning he was home and able to help with breakfast, or helping the kiddos get ready for the day! In NC he was home usually by 4:30pm, but had meetings many nights during the week. Here he gets home just before 5pm, so we are able to eat as a family fairly early in the evening and he has very few engagements during the week!

Instead of Emma starting school at 9:05, she starts school at 7:45! She has always been an early riser and is up by 7am, no matter what time she goes to bed. In NC she was always ready for school way before we needed to leave! I drove her to school and picked her up every day (we lived about 13 minutes from her school and the bus really wasn't really an option for us). I sat in carpool for a super long time every day and had to think of new creative ways to keep the other 3 busy :) She gets out of school at 2:15pm here and since we live so close to the school (less than 1 mile driving) she is home by bus at 2:20pm instead of getting home around 4:15pm!!! She still goes to bed at 7:30pm.

Anna has basically kept her schedule. She too goes to bed at 7:30 but usually doesn't fall asleep until later, we usually find her clothes changed in the morning (always in a skirt)! She needs the most sleep out of all the kiddos and is up by 8:30am :) But if she goes to bed later, she gets up later :) She does not take naps.

Lizzy has decided lately that she doesn't need a nap, we beg to differ! Since moving here I've tried laying her down earlier, on other days later, since she shares a room with Jack I've tried laying them down separately, but no luck. She stays in her bed (she will not get out of her bed until we come to get her), but no sleep!!! By dinner time she is so grouchy and grumpy we are ALL wanting it to be 7:30pm :) Emma and Anna both stopped taking naps around 2 1/2 so if this is the end of her napping I'll be ok with it!

And Jack has adjusted his sleeping schedule...he normally wakes up around 7am, eats breakfast, plays and then back down for his morning nap by 10am. Wakes up around noon, eats lunch, plays some more and back down at 3pm for his afternoon nap and up by 4:30. Then back down for the night between 7-7:30pm! He doesn't wake up at all during the night (since he was a couple months old) and we are very thankful :)

Even though we have developed new schedules, they work for us and our family :)