A day in the life...

Husbands alarm goes off...
10 min. later mine does...
MORNING TIME!
Morning Ablutions... (I've always thought that was a neat word...I'm weird, I know.)
Some quiet time before kids get up...or rather get dragged out of bed!
Start breakfast and stirring children...
Last child to the table has "trash" duty... (in the states...no big deal...here...much bigger deal!)
Breakfast and small devotional
Kitchen cleanup and school begins...each in his own room...King at the table
Morning routine and snack
More school and then lunch
After lunch is "downtime" LOVE THIS! Wish we had siesta time in the states! Sometimes it actually means I get a nap!
Check email/blog comments
Outside time until it gets too hot. Bikes, ripstick, sunshine!
Tutoring from 3-5
Cook dinner
Clean up
Family devo. time
Dancing with National Ladies (more like aerobics)

Now mix in a daily does of never knowing who's going to call to do something, random chances to practice language, College class schedule, Tae Kwon Do, grocery shopping, Post Office runs, errands to pay bills, etc.
I left out a few things, but really it doesn't seem like all that much...but somehow there are many days when I get to the end of the day exhausted and wonder WHAT I actually accomplished because I KNOW I was busy all day!

Lately God has reminded me to be intentional. Be intentional. Simple enough. Not really, for me anyway. I fight the battle daily of what is good versus what is important. I find that the urgent sometimes pushes out the important. And the urgent is not always most important. For example, language learning is very important..for many reasons, but the needs of my family, RIGHT NOW, sometimes push language learning/studying to the back burner. So, I'm practicing intentionality. Not a new concept to me, but one I seem to need reminding of when life gets busy. How about you?