Friday, May 11, 2012

The Never-Ending Quest for Routines That Work

The older I get, it seems, the more dependent on routines I become, and the longer it takes for me to recover when the routine becomes disrupted. In fact, I have a great deal of trouble settling into any kind of routine in the first place. Gotta do something about that.

There are responsibilities emerging in the coming year which will make routines more important than ever. The best thing I can do to prepare is to start working out my routines with determination, trying to build up that consistency of which I feel an ever-growing need. And yet I have to cultivate flexibility as well. There will always be distractions and disruptions. Always.

This week we had to leave town in the middle of the week. Two full days after arriving home, I feel un-ruddered. Just exactly how long is this routine-making going to take?

How about you? What kind of schedules or routines have you found to be most effective?

2 comments:

Tina said...

Routines? Hmmmmm. Sounds like a familiar word. Ha, ha, ha, ha.... Oddly enough I used to be totally addicted to routines. Couldn't live without them. However, I believe my personality type has slowly been morphing over the past few years. My hormones have been out of whack since Eli was born and routines have gone out the window. The only thing that seems to be consistent is doing school right after breakfast and bedtimes at 8:00 for the younger kiddos and 9:00 for the older kiddos. Everything else is up in the air.

Rose said...

I love routines! I had to save my sanity so I put the kids on one as soon as I could. I haven't changed it much except for thirty minutes or so since then.