Tightening My Pegs and Decorating My Idea Box

I have been looking at how our home is operating... what is happening, getting done, not getting done.. and how we all are interacting.

I find our pegs are a little fuzzy. Our schedules are running a bit counter- me up at the crack of dawn and in bed by ten, the boys both nightowls and sleeping as late as I will allow....

After some thinking I had a chat with the boys. We agreed to get back to a daily meeting time, sort of as an anchor. We still do most of our learning throughout the day, but this will allow me to share things with them. We agreed to all work toward this time. They can sleep in two days, but the other two must be up (fairly) early.

So, we put an anchor in the middle of the day- noon. To meet. I want to return to daily scripture readings and will also use that time to share reading aloud and ideas from my Idea Box. (more on that later)

I am going to return to something I did for years- a theme of the day- just to make sure I get to it. Monday Math, Tuesday Art/ Music, etc. . Today we read "Screwtape on Time". I love Screwtape. :-)

I laid out my workout and on/off dogsit morning schedule, worked in our daily Mass day, our house cleaning day, etc. It feels good to get these pegs tightened up a bit. I love pegs!

Now, my idea box. In a previous post I mentioned how I have all these ideas swimming in my head- I needed a place for them to roost!

I created a beautiful Idea Box. I started to buy it but couldn't find what I wanted. I wanted something happy and pretty. I am tired of my white binder.

Now, when I have an idea- big or small- it goes in my box. In there now are scraps of paper, printed out emails, articles I want to share, etc. All those floating ideas are now captured.


Here is a picture. It is the yellow box. Really the lid to a box my file folders came in that I covered with pretty wrapping paper.

Here are some things pulled at random that sit in my box atm:

-Article from Catholic Answers on embryo research called Another Attack on Humanity
-Share items from Murderous Maths/Family Math/Websites to share
-Boys draw cartoon charactures of various dog breeds for possible use on greeting cards.
-Boys begin a VG portfolio with print outs of the reviews they have written, favorite posts on blogs, website descriptions of fav games, etc.
-Research history of middle east wars and Isreal- relate to today.


While I am in the picture up load mode.. here are our new digs:

We gave the office to my dh who now works from home and we took up shop in our front living room/music room.

And I am not sure how this picture got on the camera. Some backwards dog knees. lol