On A Day in the Life

Everybody Else is doing it so why can't I:

5 AM alarm followed sometime in the next half-hour by the sound of feet quietly easing to the cold cold floor

Make coffee, read Bible, time permitting take dogs for walk

6 AM wake up rest of family breakfast duty with the little one, clean kitchen, make lunches

7 AM leave house, stop at preschool, continue to work. If we leave at 7 it takes 20 minute, if we leave at 7:10 (more common towards the end of the week) it takes 30. Get to work, prepare for day, make lesson plans, review material, create longer list than neccessary of things to do during the day.

8 AM begin school--generally with boardwork and oral review, then on to writing. We do a new writing activity twice a week with the other days given to editing and reading.

10:30 AM Break--generally spent teaching students who have fallen behind between mouthfuls of my snack (bran muffin and an orange)

10:50 Back to class for Math. Generally I make this section up as I go along, teaching whatever the students are struggling with.

1:00 Lunch Spent the same way as break (Peanut Butter and Jelly, an apple or peach, chips and a Diet Coke for lunch)

1:45 Back to work for Vocabulary, Geography, and whatever else I came up with in the morning--sometimes reading comprehension or a spelling bee or some sort of boardwork)

3:00 PE--at last teaching is done and I can have some fun with the kids before they go home

3:30--schools out and we try to hurry home. A delay of 20 minutes in getting out of school can mean an extra half hour on the road

4:30-5 PM get home prepare dinner, check e-mail and blog, pick up house, take a walk (not always)

This part of the day is highly variable--Tuesdays we go to the Seneca house, Wednesdays we get home after six due to the teachers meeting, Thursdays and Fridays we generally have people over or have some other activity.

6 PM dinner

7 PM bathtime, pjs brush teeth, read kids books (I have become a big fan of Dr. Seuss, his books are so fun to read outloud)

8PM bedtime, spend time with the wife--watch TV, read, blog, relax

9PM bedtime number two, read (by this time of the night all I'm good for are magazines and pulp fiction--my brain is fried by the mental involvement teaching requires) feed the dogs, wash the dishes, drink a cup of tea, write in my journal (this is probably the time of deepest connection to God during the day.

10:30 PM give or take a half hour: bedtime number three

Weekends

6 AM wake up to the sound of my name whispered by a face inches from mine, wake up drink coffee, take care of small child until 9 or so.

9 Saturdays work on projects around the house--painting woodworking
Sundays volunteer at hospital

12 Saturdays clean house do laundry
Sundays go shopping for weeks groceries

4 PM Saturdays go on date or have friends over
Sundays go to church

bedtime ritual largely unchanged