These are the days of our lives

I follow the Simple Mom blog and have enjoyed reading their series of "a day in the life of a homeschool family". They're having a linky tomorrow so I thought if would be fun if I documented one of our days. 
There is no right or wrong way to home educate and it can look completely different from one home to the next. Depending on the number of children, one or both spouses working out of the home or from home and a myriad of other possibilities, it develops a personality right for that family. 
While our days can vary in many ways, some things stay consistent. Most of our mornings remain fairly predictable but the afternoons differ from day to day. This was Wednesday, February 1st.

Will is the first up at 6:30am. He worked this time out on his own. He finds this gives him enough time to lounge in jammies and play of bit of Lego before getting to work. 
My alarm goes off at 7am. At 8 when I emerge from my room, Zanna has already eaten a bowl of cereal and wants me to help her change her calendar to February. At this she realizes that it's her birthday month and she starts to plan!
Will has completed his math test and waits for me to check it. He's also read two chapters in his book about Hudson Taylor. He's currently working on my computer and using the World Book Encyclopedia to fill in his Eastern Hemisphere Explorer. We're studying China these days. 
The kids follow me into the kitchen and beg for waffles. I start on this as they empty the dishwasher. 
8:15 - Waffles in the waffle maker so I check the math test. Will's back to EHE until I call him in for breakfast. Zanna has gone into detail on what she wants her birthday cake to look like so I have her draw it for me. 
8:30 - eat, clean up kitchen, check email
9:05 - up in the playroom/schoolroom, Will and I work through his early confirmation curriculum "Faith Foundations". We're on the 6th commandment (the adultery one). Awkward. Shouldn't this be daddy's job? I power through and try to stay calm and normal. 
9:40 - moving on to spelling with Will. Meanwhile Zanna is at her desk working on her handwriting.

10:15 - Zanna's back to playing and I go over the days assignments with Will. He's to come up with a key word outline for a paragraph I give him, pick a poem to copy in his very best cursive handwriting and read two more chapters in Hudson Taylor book (missionary to China).
10:30 - Wayne and kids are off to the retirement home for the Wednesday morning church service. I'm off to the grocery store.
11:30 - Wayne and kids beat me home and Zanna's helping Wayne shovel the driveway. Will's back to work upstairs. I unload groceries and reheat some homemade chicken noodle soup from the other day. 
11:45 - lunch, clean up
12:15 - read to both kids on couch our ancient China book and the chapters in "What the World Eats" that has a Chinese family in the city and country and what they eat in a week. 
12:45 - read to Zanna our Five in a Row book for the week "Katy and the Big Snow". We discuss responsibilities. 
1pm - quiet time. Kids are in each of their rooms. Will has borrowed my iPod and is listening to "Treasure Island" while playing Legos. Zanna plays quietly with her dolls. I'm in the family room for my Bible reading time. I read today's reading from "Treasury of Daily Prayer", read a chapter from "Christ" and start my new book "The Narrow Lutheran Middle". 
1:40 - quiet time normally goes until 2 but gotta go! Zanna has gymnastics at 2 we have to get to. Will stays home with Wayne and finishes his quiet time. He gets to his assignments I've given earlier and goes for a walk with Wayne after he finishes. Watches a bit of "Muppet Treasure Island" on video. While Zanna has gymnastics from 2 - 3:30, I chat with the other homeschool moms. 
4pm - get home. I ask Will questions about the book he's reading, he reads his poem he copied, and I look at his outline. He and Zanna watch an episode of "Phineas and Ferb". 
4:25 - leave for Will's violin lesson. Zanna stays home with Wayne.
5:10 - back home and I start supper. Kids are at the table drawing.

Zanna is making her own version of a Jackson Pollock painting and Will is drawing a maze. I make shrimp stir-fry.

6pm - eat, devotion, clean up.
6:45 - bath for Zanna. Will's back to listening to "Treasure Island"
7pm - read to Zanna in her bed. Goodnight at 7:30.
7:30 - downstairs on couch with Will. I read "Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze".
8pm - American Idol. I read "Eric Liddell" (missionary to China) during commercials.
8:30 - Will to bed. 
That's it! I don't do much between then and 11pm when I usually go to bed. This night, Wayne is feeling like he's coming down with a cold and goes to bed early. I try to read some more until my eyes sting and I give up.