I like to share my updated writing process every once in a
while since it’s fun, at least for me, to see how things change as my children
grow.
I wake up in the mornings and do my bible study + prayer
time. I always pray for my writing process along with many other things, and I
keep a notebook right beside me because I often get hit with an overwhelming
number of amazing ideas for my work during that time. If there is time before
everyone is ready for breakfast (and there usually isn’t), I’ll work a little
writing in here.
From there I feed my kids breakfast and do our “morning
time” homeschool, which is usually our memory verse, a devotional, our sign
language word of the week, and a picture book. Then I do a very fast workout
DVD while they get dressed or we all go for a walk/have a dance party, some
kind of exercise, and then we do a few daily chores together.
After that I sit down for a math lesson with my son while my
girls play, do a quick preschool lesson with my four-year-old while he takes a
play break, then do language arts. I make lunch while they all play together,
then we sit at the table for lunch, our read-aloud, and a simple Spanish lesson
based on our reading for the day.
I get everybody ready for naps and read them all a picture
book, then my son does “quiet time” in his bed (a stack of books, puzzles,
coloring, stationary for letter-writing, wipe-off workbooks, and a few miscellaneous
quiet activities) while my girls nap.
I usually read a chapter of a review book while everyone
settles down and then I crank out about two hours of writing time. I tend to
have writing ideas pop into my head all day long so I’m usually pretty productive
during this time. After writing time is over I try to work for 30 minutes on
writing-related work… drafting emails, editing blog posts, plotting social
media posts, etc.
Afternoons are kinda lazy, which is always really nice. I
usually read them something while they eat their afternoon snack, then we do
science Mondays and Wednesdays or history Tuesdays and Thursdays (and nature
study Fridays), plus an elective. I try to give each kid a five-minute
one-on-one date with Mom at this point (which is basically just one kid in my
bed for a book/coloring/puzzle session while the other three stare at us from
across the room) and then they play while I make dinner.
After dinner we hang out for a bit, usually play some kind
of pretend game altogether (restaurant, house, acting out or putting on a
puppet show of a book we read earlier in the day, etc) and then get ready for
bed, bedtime book, tuck them in 30 times. Once a week I go out to do all my
online work (scheduling blog posts and social media posts, answering emails,
responding to comments, etc), and once a week I spend a night completing essays
I plan to post on the blog. Other than that, who knows. Some nights I crank out
a ton of great writing or research + notes while Ryan does his own thing. Some
nights we just read separate books beside each other, some nights we hang out…
some nights I write for 15 minutes before we read/hang out… you just never
know.
I’m also about to try something new, a weekly working
playdate with a sweet friend I don’t get to see nearly often enough. There are
definitely disadvantages to this plan (the gas it takes to drive to her town,
the way it alters our homeschool schedule, the way I’ll get time to do
marketing/logistics work but not writing work during this time) but I am so
excited to get to spend time with her and I am really looking forward to
crossing several things off my list at once without having to go out late at
night to do it!
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