Then comes Jordan Page’s block schedule video below. I found such an exact schedule doesn’t quite work out for us, but her example provides a lot of information and help for the average day in the life of a Catholic housewife. That schedule is what worked for her family (and lots of other families too!) As with anything, take what works for you and leave what doesn’t. Detractors say that it isn’t realistic – but different people work in different ways. Holly’s book includes a focus on an incredibly detailed schedule, which she is often criticized for. (You can however find my prayer routine here). I don’t want to include every last thing because your rule will be personal to you, and going through Holly’s book would be a great way to help you determine your own rule. How often I work out in a week, how often I eat treats, how much I read or pray are all included in my rule. My mother’s rule includes things not on the schedule below – certain goals, spiritual practices, disciplines and more. I merged these two ideas into something that works incredibly well for me and my family. Breaking the day off into blocks helps to guide us into meeting different needs without burning out. We are usually more productive when we have a plan, but we also can’t focus forever on a task. The point of Jordan Page’s block schedule is divide our day into blocks of time, much like classroom periods, and only focus on the tasks assigned to each block. The book encourages a mother to take her duties as seriously as a religious would – not going through all our days skating by until dad gets home, not approaching our days without a plan and haphazardly letting everything happen as it may, but instead knowing our physical and spiritual needs and trying to arrange our day to meet them as best as possible.
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I developed my rule of life and daily routine based off of two main sources:Ī mix of the book A Mother’s Rule of Life: How to Bring Order to Your Home and Peace to Your Soul by Holly Pierlot ( find it here on Amazon), and this daily block schedule video found here from Jordan Page. Much like when you follow a budget you feel like you get a raise because of the extra money that usually appears when random impulse purchases stop, so too you will likely find a little extra time you didn’t know you had in your day when you are following are allocating your hours each day. Instead of seeing so much to be done, being overwhelmed, and bouncing from task to task haphazardly, you can have days with purposeful, known plans of action that help you physically and spiritually. Just as a financial budget let’s your brain rest a little because the outline of spending is made, budgeting your day saves you so much brain power. If you don’t give your hours a general assignment… they’re likely to slip through your fingers too! Every Dollar… Every Hourĭave Ramsay has a budgeting program called Every Dollar – he knows if you don’t tell every dollar where to go in a budget… you’ll likely find them slipping through your fingers. There is still so much that we can mirror, however, in how they regard their vocation with such pride and dignity, and their desire to order their days towards the duties God has given them. The ever changing and pressing needs of our children give far more variables to a day than a nun or monk encounters in their vocation. Will the rule of a mother be as exact as a religious? Of course not. Instead, you find bells ringing at specific times, dictating the rhythm of their work, prayer, and recreations to fulfill the work God has assigned them. Within the walls of their monasteries you will not find random days lacking defined purpose. We usually associate a rule with a religious order such as the Benedictines or Carmelites. “A Rule establishes a rhythm for life in which is helpful for being formed by the Spirit, a rhythm that reflects a love for God and respect for how He has made us.” He told me it was time to go back to it in earnest.
I wish I could have told him that the idea was foreign to me, but I had already refined a rule of life that worked well for me in the past – and in laziness had stopped following it. I had brought before him the sin of wasting time online and thereby neglecting some of my duties as a wife and mother. In confession a few months ago, the priest asked me if I knew what a mother’s rule of life was.
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