Homeschooling Four kids

As Home School Mom I have to find the time to homeschool my kids,clean,cook,be friend,wife and teacher,and sometimes doctor,.

It isn't easy but I try my best to Balance all this into one easy step, read threw out these steps I am to post and see if you can try and apply if you are a homeschool mom as well.

During the morning, I make my bed, and prepare my coffee, while I make my bed and prepare coffee, I send my kids to pick their beds and get dress, (Yes, they get dressed as if it was a regular schoolday). Then while I am making my kids breakfast they brush their teeth and get all their books and materials ready in the room which we have decorated as a small space to be more comfortable.

Meanwhile they eat breakfast I sit and read my emails, tend to my Networks and groups, and make some advertisments for my Gift Shop, in this process I am working online and the kids wash their own dish when they finish breaksfast,.
Now begins the Homeschool time, all this can start around 9:00am to 10:00am it all depends the time and maximum amount of time we take doing all this in the morning, Once I begin to homeschool I disconect myself from everything. Phone,Internet and TV, The kids are not to watch tv, while we are in school time, they are allowed to see tv around 5:00pm and if they have read at least one hour of any book they choose. I homeschool my kids , then around 11:00am-11:30am, we go downstairs to play and for a walk, we come up around 12:30 they eat lunch, while they eat lunch, I get online again and work more,send emails, tend my network and friends, and make more adverisments, once they finish eating lunch they have a 20 minuts break, then homeschool again, to make this short,
I finish homeschool around 1:00pm -2:30 depending how long it takes for them to work,
Once we are done, I do laundry if there is something to be washed, if not we fold clothes, each child is to take their clothes to their room and out away, while this is done, I take dinner out to start the preparation, while meat is in the oven, I clean the livingroom and bathroom, once this is done, Each of my child has a task, one is to review that the hallway is clean, one is to sweep the stairs, and the other to clean all tables around the house,.

While I am cooking the kids are done , they sit and read a book while I vacuum and mop areas that have no rug,.
Around 5:--pm-6:00pm we have dinner, after dinner, we all clean table and do dishes, the kids wash their face, body or bath, and sit for a book, around 7:00pm we make a circle in the livingroom and I read out loud at least one hour everyday, around 8:00pm I let me kids sit and watch a movie, and if I am dont I sit with them, if not I mop the kitchen again and organize everything for the next day, Before bed time, I make sure evrything is done and cleared especially my kids homeschool work. I take the night to correct and see they have worked good, Once I tuck my kids to bed, I keep working online then get to some reading,

This is something I do everyday, except Saturday and Sunday, these are sacred days for me, days to be with the family and share, I do nothing unless their is a pile of clothes or something I really dont want to do on the week, mainly I keep it unbusy to play and see the kids have fun outside.


I am sure as mom and wives we can keep our lives organized if we keep it this way, sometimes we sit down and because we are tired we just do not feel like doing it, but looking at the reality, if we do not make our daily tasks who will?
We need to try and keep everything in a ordally way we can in order to even be successful at home,.

Self-confidence

I am secure in myself and confident in myself
I discover, uncover, and recover aspects of my self-confidence daily
I maintain my self-confidence in all times and places
I balance my self-confidence with modesty in perfect ways
I dissolve all obstacles to having complete self-confidence
I heal all my issues around loss of self-confidence
I recognize and honor my true talents, abilities, and skills
I am confident of my capabilities, expertise, and know-how
I dissolve all false expectations of myself
I forgive myself for not living up to others expectations
I see each part of my life as a lesson in attitude and feeling
I forgive myself for any and all past mistakes
I dissolve all my fear around making mistakes
My self-confidence is in who I am, not what I do
I have faith in myself and my future
I stand firmly in my belief in myself
I believe in myself completely
I feel self confident from the inside out
I am now filled with miracle consciousness
I move forward, feeling self-confident every step of the way

Balancing Work & Leisure

Living a balanced life and I are one
I choose balance for my life and I live accordingly
I dissolve all false messages around working hard
I move beyond my family patterns of work and leisure
I dissolve all internal needs to work all the time
I feel loved whether or not I am working
I move beyond the need for perfection to the practice of excellence
I move beyond the need for intensity to living a fulfilled life
I develop my own productive and effective work style
I develop a regenerative rejuvenating leisure style
I work when it is time to work; I relax when it is time to relax
I focus on work when I work
I disconnect from work as appropriate
I plan leisure time regularly
I balance my work life and my leisure life perfectly
I return to work refreshed and renewed
I experience a sense of well being while I work
I experience a sense inner peace while I relax
I like what I do and I do what I like
I increase in mental and emotional health daily

A Baby asked God"

A baby asked God, "They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow, but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?" God said, "Your angel will be waiting for you and will take care of you." The child further inquired, "But tell me, here in heaven I don't have to do anything but sing and smile to be happy." God said, "Your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you. And you will feel your angel's love and be very happy." Again the child asked, "And how am I going to be able to understand when people talk to me if I don't know the language?" God said, "Your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweet words you will ever hear, and with much patience and care, your angel will teach you how to speak." "And what am I going to do when I want to talk to you?"God said, "Your angel will place your hands together and will teach you how to pray." "Who will protect me?" God said, "Your angel will defend you even if it means risking it's life." "But I will always be sad because I will not see you anymore."God said, "Your angel will always talk to you about Me and will teach you the way to come back to Me, even though I will always be next to you." At that moment there was much peace in Heaven, but voices from Earth could be heard and the child hurriedly asked, "God, if I am to leave now, please tell me my angel's name." "You will simply call her 'Mother'.

Feelings of a Loving Mother

Why?
Written By: Jessica Lozada
November 15, 2004

Don't you just sometimes feel tired of so many things going on around us?,.
I am sitting in front of my desk advertising my business, and reading emails and all of a sudden the phone rings, I already have this gut feeling it was going to be the school, why? well becuase since I decided to send my kids to school diferent things have been going on, and for what? I mean do we the good boys have to stay home because the bullies can't keep their hands to themselves,..
I picked up the phone and their was the Assistace Principal, asking for me,..Jose's Mom,..my 11 year old son, and what I even had in my mind had happened,..some bullies, were picking on all three of them,, my two boys and my daughter, they even broke his glasses, and now I told the principal things were going to be fixed one way or the other becuase I was already tired of all the abusive kids,...
You see sometimes, when we think things are being good, is when something happens, we send out kids to school to study and be great mens and womans, and what happens, that sometimes they loose alot, they get low selfesteem, feel lonely and even loose desire to go back to school, and all because of the other students that do not have not even the least interest in studying,..
I am a mother of four childrens, and it really bothers me as mom, sister and friend, to see all this going on in school, and why don;t we speak, speak out loud,..sometimes these abusive issues can cause suicide,..and alchol, or drug problem,.. I am sure there are alot of mom's out there who think just like me,..
I have been even thinking of organizing a support group for parents who feel like I do, I know their someone out there that can hear and support what I know can be best,..this is one of the reason , parents are taking their kids out of school to home school them, they are affraid of the bad things , they learn negative things in the first place and this is at school,..How many rapes from teachers to students and students to students?. We do not know they are uncountable, killings ,.fights, like I said and suicide,...
I do not want to over protect my kids, but I have noticed this is a must for all mom's.
I will protect them till I can, no matter what. Don't you feel upset with how unfair is life, >? I know I sometimes do, but I hold on to the only one that shows me life is fair, when you have Jesus, in your heart, home and family,...

Do we worry to much?

Do we over worry ?
By Jessica Lozada
Written November 9, 2004
As moms do we worry way to much? or is this a matter of life?
It all began around 3:00 in the afternoon that my 10 year old son, brought home a paper, from school, about a conference I had to assist with him , although it read fundraiser, I was alittle worried, what the problem will be.
So I asked him, "Brian,..What happened in school today?",..he really didn't go into details, he talked to me about this boy who is always picking on him, then he came upon another problem about 3 more boys who went to the bathroom and started to hit him,.so I decided to have a chat with his father and see what we can do in regards of the school issues.
Later this afternoon,.I didn't even care about thinking I had to go to school the next day, all I did was work and do my home choures,..
The next day I decided to wouldn't be able to make it to the conference because my husband was sick and my toddler, so I called the school and told them what this fundraiser was all about and that it was a posibility I coudn't go,.so with my surprise, the receptionist, was really rude and out of control, telling me that I really had to go becuase my son was causing some problems, and he wasn't accepted til I went over,..I was so surprised asking myself what was going on,...?
Not even I had the response.
I was crazy and even sick to my stomach wondering what had happened,. all I can think of at this moment was the punishment I was going to give him,...I called my husband from the bed and we went to school, I talked to someone and there I was still nervous and crying and praying to God nothing bad had happened,..'
All of a sudden the Principal comes over to me and asks me ,.."Are you here for....?" not even he had knew why I was there,..so behind him came another teacher and told me ,.."Oh your Brian Reyes mom?",.I said" Yes",..she said oh this about the fundraiser, and I was like wow, crying and laughing at the same time,..
I mean as mom's do we worry way too much,? or this is natural,.I got so sick when this happened and,.I realized I went a little over board, I actually didn't have confidence that my son, would not do anything so bad he would get suspended,..
I got home and prayed and told God how wrong was I thinking bad about my son, but how right HE is for taking care of my steps ahead,...
We should not worry so much in life, we need to be alittle more faithfull to God and trust that HE will guide and take good care of us and our kids, wether they are in school,.playground and even when they are sleeping,....

Put your catalog on the web!!

Abother great resoursce I found online,..

Consider putting your product or service catalog on your Web site.
Adding additional pages to your Web site is a fraction of the cost of printing and mailing more catalog pages to even a few thousand customers. So on your Web site you can afford to provide more in-depth information and information on more obscure products that are of interest to only a small portion of your customer base.
If most of your customers have Web access, you may want to shorten, simplify, or even eliminate your printed catalog and direct your customers to an on-line catalog
on your Web site--saving a lot of money in printing and mailing costs.
A word of caution: On the Web, your competitors will usually be among your most frequent visitors.

Focus on current customers first

Once you've got a simple Web site up and you're looking to expand it, I'd next focus on providing more information primarily for current customers. Businesses on the Web have had a lot more success serving current customers better and more efficiently than attracting new ones.
The Web can be particularly effective for many kinds of service support. You can provide information twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, without having anyone on staff. And you can update information instantly.
You might be able to slash your customer-service costs dramatically by shifting customers to the Web. Consider announcing the Web address automatically to all incoming callers on your customer-service line.
For minimal cost, you could just list by category answers to frequently asked questions or solutions to common problems. Later you may want to go to the expense of having a database and search engine added.

Increase Productivity and Profifts on the Web

Great resoursce I found online:

When I started my first online forum in 1988, few people knew what an online service was. Fewer still cared. Trying to explain what I did usually produced puzzled looks, and if I could corner anyone long enough to give a demonstration, the usual response was a polite, “That’s nice, but who will use it?”
No one asks that question anymore. Hundreds of thousands of individuals a month use either the Business Know-How Forum on America Online or my company’s Web site at http://www.businessknowhow.com. Big and small businesses alike have flocked to the Internet and to online services because that’s where their customers are. And that’s where their suppliers are. Researchers expect there will be 100 million Americans online* in the year 2000.
Every type of product you can imagine is being sold on the Web, too. In 1999, 76 percent of retailers and 43 percent of manufacturers were selling online or planned to sell online.† Besides computers, books, and CDs, you’ll find leather jackets, soda pop, lingerie, and clothing. You’ll find some rather inconceivable offerings, as well. One enterprising college student set up a Web site to sell horse manure. Her target wasn’t farmers or gardeners. It was any individual who wanted to “get even” for being laid off, dumped by a love one, and so on. For $19.99, the site would giftwrap a clump of horse manure and ship it to the sender’s least favorite people.
You don’t have to be a retailer to benefit from the Web, however. Small and home-based businesses throughout the world are discovering that the Internet reduces costs and improves efficiency. In fact, the improvements are so significant that you will be at a competitive disadvantage if you don’t learn to put the Web to work in your business.
Before You Go On…Don’t let the savings and productivity enhancements described in the following pages make you rush out and spend thousands of dollars overnight to have someone set you up with your own Web server, hosted Web site, or intranet. Take the time to learn about the Web firsthand before you make any major investment in it.
Learn the Inexpensive WayIf you have no experience using the Internet, the easiest way to learn about it is to use a personal computer hooked up to a standard telephone line and sign up for an online service such as America Online, Compuserve, or Microsoft Network. Or pay an Internet service provider (ISP), such as AT&T Worldnet or BellSouth, by the month for an e-mail address and a connection to the Internet.
The reason to start with one of these services is they simplify the process of getting connected to the Internet. Some offer their own content (news, feature articles, and so on) as well as just the connection to the Internet. Once you have an Internet connection with access to the Web, you can also use any of the popular Web “portals” (Web sites that categorize sites according to their content and give you links to them) to look around the Internet for Web sites in your industry.
Here are some of the most popular portals. Each offers links to various categories of information as well as powerful search engines that search the entire Web for keywords you choose:
AOL.COMYahoo!Netscape NetcenterLycosAltaVistaMSNSnapExciteInfoseekAT&T WorldNet
Get in the Habit of Using E-mailHaving an e-mail address is just about as important these days as having a business card or a sales tax number. Millions of businesspeople are using e-mail to send routine business correspondence, requests for proposals, contracts, instructions, price lists, spreadsheets, and sometimes orders. If you don’t have an e-mail account you won’t appear professional, and in some cases, you may not be able to do business at all.
Set Goals and Focus on ThemThe Web offers so many ways to inform, do research, entertain, and sell that it’s easy to lose site of your business reason for being on the Web. The “wow” factor attached to it all can cause you to waste countless amounts of time and money doing little more than playing around on the Web.
To avoid that pitfall, make a list of your goals before you make any decisions about what to put on your Web site or how to present the material. Don’t include things like “set up a Web site” or “set up a bulletin board.” List only the results you want to accomplish, not the tools you’ll use to get those results. Your list might include some of the following goals:
Send and receive business correspondenceKeep tabs on your competitorsGenerate salesGenerate advertising revenueReduce support callsEnhance customer communicationsReduce costsProvide product information to customersGive demos
Assign priorities and a value to each goal. Weigh every decision you make about your use of the Web against these priorities and values.
For instance, suppose you have decided a Web site would help build your business and you are thinking about putting a video on the site showing you demonstrating your product. Consider whether that demo will really enhance sales. Do people understand what the product does? Or does it really require a demo to sell it? Will the video really build sales or just stroke your ego? Any feature that doesn’t help you reach your goal should be eliminated—at least at startup. You can always add capabilities once you see how customers actually use your site.

Where is your family standing?

Where is your family standing?
By Jessica Lozada
Written November 1,2004
I have been asking myself,..for several times now, Are families still comitting to each other, now days? or are there things in their homes that is taking that place?.
Well for instance, you can go and visit homes, and all you see around are video games, big screen t.v. and much more,..My opinion, is that family values are being in waste by these other activities, why? well for example, in my home we have video games, of all kinds, my kids have four different video games, we have cable , and dvd,..so what happens sometimes we waste our family time on other things rather than just learning from each other,..I like to divide my time and my family so we can be able to share from everything we do, not always the kids are being exposed to video games, because they are being taught, the importance of "Family",..
The value of "Family " is really being ignorred,.you can see so little family dinning together, talking together, going out on a family night, and even praying together, it is sad the way things are changing, and how our kids, are seeing this new way of the meaning of the word "Family" because they will grow this way and not know how to share like one.
When I see that my family is starting to get out of control, because of the video games, it really scares me and tells me,.it's time to stand up,.so I just think of family games and activities, and sit everyone down at the table and let them all know one by one what we will be doing,..We play various games, we play scrabble, monopoly, scavenger hunt, with little gifts for them to find and win,..we also draw and make scrapbooks with them using their own pictures from other activities, there are so many ways to plan a great family day without going out ,..If I want to see a movie, we get to pick one that we can all enjoy and just sit and enjoy it, we have been taking good care of us as a family, because it really is important,
Another great way to make family time fun, is divide your kids in sexes,..Mommies go out with your daughters and Daddies with their boys,spend some time to know what your kids want and need, and know a little about them,.the following week you can do a vice verse, thing, Mommies with the boys and Daddie with the girls, I did this and it really gave me a great opportunity to know what my daughter really wants from me, and what my boys really need, it is a wonderful and learning experience I recommend to all parents,..
Why should we let our family fall apart?
You and I have the great solution, and this is making a great dinner for all to sit and eat together, listen to your kids, let them talk and express themselves, they have so much to say when it's dinner time, and sitting at the table, is so wonderful that we have the chance to share all we have done, at school, work, or even at home, why not tell your family what you as a mommie did, make a joke out of it,..do not bring fights or discussion to the family table,..This is a quote I wanted to share,.and think it really touches me,..
It's called "Family Justice"

*Family Justice"
I understand that it is not my job to judge my sister or brother,Lord.
When we were young, that was the duty of our parents,
and they did a fair job of it with only a few bad verdicts. My
brothers and sisters through blood deserve the same patience
and love as those in my Christian Family. If I can forgive a non-relative
who hurts me,I can be even more forgiving within my family, If I can charity to strangers, I need to be at least as generous to those related to me. Give me Your guidance, Lord Reveal the needs of my brothers and sisters-whether they are physical, emotional, or spiritual-and incline my heart to them.
Wow,..this is really touching,.I can say it isn't easy to be brothers, sisters, and not even parents, but life goes on and we are the one to choose what we want and how we want our life and family to be, live life and live it right, Love your family no matter what and share , share all you can with them,...