We interrupt this schedule....

Evening time is pretty structured in our house. I don't like disruption in it. Last night was disruption.

Here's our "typical" schedule.

Kids home: 3:50
After School Snack: 4:00
Dinnertime: 5:30
Snack time: 7:00
Quiet time: 8:00
Book time: 8:20
Bedtime: 8:30

With Dylan's baseball practice he doesn't get home until after 7:15 on practice nights. I know that some families like to eat dinner late, but our family does not. Dylan had practice and Maddie had ballet last night. So, I figured I would make dinner ready on the table at 7:00 so that when the boys got home, it would already be on the table ready for them. Seems logical, right?

Well, Maddie gets home from ballet at 5:45. Before last night, I always had dinner ready for her when she got home from ballet. Last night it wasn't even started yet. She was starving. While I was making dinner, I was chopping up some green peppers which she kept swiping from me. At 7:00 she and I sat down to eat. She ate FIVE HELPINGS of dinner before Joel and Dylan even got home. I started to worry that there wouldn't be enough left for them. Luckily they got home before Shrek Maddie ate all their dinner.

Obviously, since we were eating dinner after 7:00, snack was pushed back. At 8:00 p.m. I announced snack time and Maddie was freaking out about the time. "but, it's almost bedtime!!"

Obviously, bedtime was pushed back too.

Monday's are officially my least favorite day of the week.

Every year at baseball season I start off with good intentions about dinners. For practice days, we eat after practice. For game days, we eat before. By the end of the season, we're eating McDonald's or macaroni and cheese for dinner.

Now for some exciting news....Maddie got her Self-Manager badge yesterday! There are only a handful of kids in the class that have one. They have to earn it through good behavior, doing their work, etc. She has coveted one all year and yesterday was finally the day. Before the teacher handed it out to her she was telling the class about the "person" who was about to get it. I don't know all that she said, because Maddie couldn't remember everything, but she said "this person is someone who I never have to remind to stop talking." Good thing I wasn't there for this because I would have been like "whaaaat??? You have got the wrong kid here teacher."