Sleep, Routine, and Other Epic Failures

So it seems the Agents have gotten on this new sleep pattern and I am not a fan. I've written about sleep craziness before. I also touched on sleep in this post on newborns, which as with most of my writing from 2010 just seems weird to me now. (Interestingly—or maybe not—these were my second and third posts, respectively, on this blog.)

I like routine. I like to be up early. I like to come home from traveling and get back to "normal" days as soon as possible. Usually my children have other ideas. Since we returned from our vacation last Friday, bedtime has moved to later and later, and wake-up time has shifted as well. (Although I guess I should be grateful they are at least sleeping in a bit . . . usually when this happens they start going to bed late and getting up early.)

Friday night camp out in the living room

Side note: We recently rearranged our sleeping configuration so we now have three queen beds in our master bedroom. (Yep, three.) It's actually one on a bed frame, one mattress only, and one foam mattress top. Andrew sleeps on the mattress and the girls sleep on the topper thingy. Hubby and I get the "real" bed. Inevitably at some point Andrew migrates to the girls' bed . . . at least a few times a week I find him curled up in a ball at the foot of their bed like a cat, dozing peacefully.

Anyway, I am a morning person, so it's nice to have some extra time to myself in the mornings, but we are also starting on this homeschooling gig next week, and if they aren't getting out of bed until 8:30 or 9:00 . . . well, that kind of ruins my evil, master plan.

Of course I have an ideal plan in my head of how the perfectly executed day would flow. It would look something like this:

5:30          Momma awake, morning quiet time

7:30          Agents awake, play time, breakfast, dressed and ready for day

9:00          School-ish stuff with Agent E (and to some extent Agent J) while Agent A plays/observes

10:00        Morning snack

10:30        More school-ish stuff (Monday to Thursday) or leave for park/library/errands, etc. (Friday)

11:00        Nap for Agent A (2-ish hours)

11:30        Lunch

12:00        Play time, more school-ish or reading time, outside time, housework (varies by day)

3:00          Afternoon snack, play/movie time while Momma writes and/or catches up on housework

5:00          Make and eat dinner, clean up

6:30          Bath time

7:30          DVD and/or reading time, bedtime snack

8:30          Agents to bed, time with Hubby

9:30          Momma to bed

A girl can dream, right?

10 months of beautiful, squishy baby

You would think with all the traveling we have done I would be a pro at Operation Get Back On Routine by now, but alas, no. Any pointers? How are y'all getting into your school year (homeschooling, public, private, or otherwise) groove? We start Monday and I don't want to be all out of sorts.

Thanks for reading and have a blessed day.

p.s. Agent A is 10 months old today!