It's working for us!

Once again, I will start the post with It's been a while! I don't know why I haven't kept up with my blog, because I do enjoying it when I do keep up, and also enjoy being able to look back at old post, to see how far we have come or even to simply remember things I might otherwise forget. So I am going to give this a try again, and try to post at least once a week:)
Recently I decided to put myself and the children on a daily schedule, I broke our day down into half hour increments from the time we wake up right up till dinner. I did it because I felt we needed some organization in our daily life because we were waisting to much time, and the kids where spending a LOT of time fighting, and I can only take so much of that. we have only been doing this for a few days, 4 to be exact but I already love it! It does need some tweaking but for the most part it's working out amazingly.
What has it done for us? Well it has helped set aside time to spend time in prayer and do devotionals that I sadly have to admit I was not doing well with before. I also included a devotional time for the children right after breakfast, we spend a half hour singing some children bible songs, reading from John's Bible story book, and then saying prayers for the day.
I also slotted time to spend one on one with each of the children. During this time we work on something educational for example John and I work on his letters and numbers, and he has been learning to write his name!
My time with Audrey we spend looking at flashcards of animals saying what they are and making animal sounds, or we might work on a puzzle . I have also incorporated "room time" where the kids spend a half hour in their own rooms playing...and it's working. They both play quietly in their room and mom gets to cook dinner in peace! What more could I ask for:)
I also had been having a hard time figuring out a good nap schedule for Audrey. At this age she should be down to 1 nap a day, and at this age John was doing just that, going down around 2 pm. Taking and hour and a half nap and was ready to go again.Well that was just not working out for her, so with paying more attention to our days I realized that Audrey is ready for a nap by 10 am even though she's only been up for a few hours. So I let her go down at 10 and she actually sleeps for almost 2 hours every time, and then takes another cat nap about forty five mins to an hour, late afternoon and still goes to bed at 7:30, and if that's what works for her, then that's what works for us. On days where a morning nap just doesn't work out because of errands, then I put her down right after lunch around 12:30sh and the other day she napped for 3 hours! SCORE!
So if you are a stay at home mom who like myself doesn't understand where half the day goes, and it stressed out by the end of it I would HIGHLY recommend doing some research on setting up a schedule for you and your children. It's working for us!