Tonya here reporting for everyone. We REALLY need to wake up before 7:00 a.m. Sleeping just a bit later has thrown us off, off, off. That being said, we have accomplished the following:

1. some schoolwork for the little ones
2. Stennes and Josiah have worked diligently on Fair projects
3. We have super-super-super-cleaned 2 rooms
4. We reached a consensus that the schoolroom is for school ONLY and that playing, camping out, toys, etc. are unacceptable and will be dealt with accordingly. This was a MAJOR blessing for us.
5. We wrote out, posted and signed Panem Nostrum Quotidianum (daily rules) and a penalties chart. MAJOR blessing, again.

I'm overwhelmed with work at the College, unacceptable attitudes, trying to figure out a decent schedule for us all, and yet I am very, very pleased at how a few solid rules have made life much more easy for us all.

Next week's intentions:

1. Try to find time for the big boys to do schoolwork. This is tricky because their projects are substantial (as usual) and they work pretty much all day, every day . We're going to have to use "minutes" here and there to do the best that we can.
2. Continue doing a super-super-superclean of the porch and storage area. The rest of the house is pretty organized and easy to maintain.
3. Work on more of a groove for KP/chores/cooking detail.
4. We're starting a Bean Attitude Counter (a quantity of beans in a cup for everyone in the family, a bean is lost when the attitude is unacceptable, the most beans at the end of the week wins). Childish but perhaps it will keep us all more aware of how we're speaking and acting.