I'm a morning person -- that actually ends up being a liability to my morning routine, because I'm trying to get *my* stuff done and don't want to abandon it once the kids get up. I'm also currently working on getting our morning have-to-get-it-done stuff done more quickly -- it takes us 2 hours to get everyone up, dressed, groomed, fed, and beds made (not necessarily in that order). Seems to take 2 hours regardless of whether we have cold cereal or bacon, eggs, and toast.

So, I generally wake up between 5:30 and 6. I'll have my personal scripture study/journal time and take a look at anything I have planned for the day, just in case I want to print anything up or get any materials together or pack up any bags. I'll tidy up if I fell asleep before I could do it the previous night.

I try to have my kids up at 7. We have breakfast, clean up the kitchen, and do the regular morning stuff -- brush teeth, get dressed, put pjs away under pillows, make beds, comb hair, tidy up stuff upstairs we might have missed last night (like laundry or books/toys that made their way up into the room... we have three kids in a teeny bedroom right now, so we really try to keep it uncluttered). Then we start our kidschool time... I'm not sure if you wanted to hear about that too, or just the morning routine leading up to it, so I'll just go ahead, and you can skip it if it's not what you're asking about...

We start out with some singing. Usually an action song (or three) because my toddler loves them, and then a church children's song. We have a prayer and then a scripture lesson. I have a kind of a schedule for this -- on Mondays, we do a scripture story from the LDS scripture stories books (we're doing NT this year); Tues, Wed, and Thurs we do a lesson from the church primary manual for each of my kids (right now it's Sunbeams, CTR A and CTR B); on Friday, we do a lesson from the weekly sharing time theme. We also read/work on memorizing the scripture for the monthly and weekly themes each day, in theory anyway -- I haven't made it that far with my organization since we moved.

After the scripture lesson, we read poetry -- I use the Ambleside Online curriculum as a guide (for other things as well), and try to divide the days between poetry geared at each of my kids. We'll talk about the poem, of course, and I might make a point of marking the poem if it's one I want to add to my school book or memorize.

Following the poetry, we read something related to the history we're studying that year. We're doing medieval history this year, and currently we're reading about King Arthur. I just received Hillyer's "Children's History of the World" as well as a Canadian history book, so we'll be working those in as well. That's all that we do regularly like that -- depending on what kind of cooperation I get from my toddler and how much history reading we do, this part will take 30 mins to an hour.

Then, it's free time. The kids have bins with their binders and books and such in them, and we have bins with school-y material/games/activities too. They often want to work on a math lesson (we're using Making Math Meaningful) or play games. I'll usually start off this time being move involved with what they want to do, and then phase myself out and work on something of my own. I'm trying to use this time to inspire a few things, like French, music, and writing. Those are all things that I enjoy or am interested in learning more about, so I'll start doing it and the kids might join in. Or I might have an art project planned, or a science thing.

In the summer, we usually just do the reading part, and then we'll go outside and enjoy the nice weather. Then after lunch, my older two are usually happy to settle down on the couch and read or write or draw or work on a lesson of some kind with me.