Routine

We're almost in the school routine.

The mornings have been going well. Christopher is up by 7:20 a.m. and is dressed and downstairs by 7:40 a.m. at the latest. We eat breakfast, do devotion and then make sure we are ready for the day.

The afternoons are also falling into a pattern. He calls me while walking home. He gets inside, gets a drink and a snack . .then gets right to homework. The homework was a bit more today than yesterday. He wrote an essay about something that made him happy. It was his Celtics basketball team. And, he had to draw a picture with some happy events sitting on the top of a mountain and sad events at the base of the mountains. His great-grandparents dying were two of the sad items.

And, there is the evening routine. On nights without practice, he and I check his homework, I make dinner while he plays outside. We eat, he plays some more and then showers. Gervais gets home around 8 or 8:30 p.m. Christopher and him talk a little bit and then Christopher is in bed by 9 or 9:30 p.m.

I don't want to fall into a rut, but I do like routine.