Morning Routine

Growing up I always pictured my future family having a wonderful, uplifting morning routine. With Audree in school I could hardly ever wake up early enough to fit it in without rushing and having to skip over things I knew I should be explaining to the kids. So I would go through long periods of giving up before I would have to rededicate myself. I am not a morning person and it takes me a good while to really wake up in the mornings. (Now as I am writing this, I feel like I was so lazy.) But now we have all the time we need to talk about important things. We all wake up about 7am. We doddle around and play and get dressed for morning devotional at 8am. When Clark is here, if he's not already at school, he will lead us in song, prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, scripture, daily virtue, and stretches. Right now we are learning "My Country, 'Tis of Thee". We are using Draw Near Unto Me for our daily Scripture and spiritual thought, but we will be studying the Old Testament this year, so I hope to find the book that goes with that year. Every morning I pick a story from The Book of Virtues and that is the virtue I ask the kids to work on that day. I love stretching time! We all sit down in a big circle and stretch every muscle we can think of for 20 seconds each. And that is our morning routine. I'm sure it will evolve as I get better ideas and as the kids get older, but it works right now and starts our day off right! We start learning school stuff around 9.