A Typical Day at LeadTime

An average day in my life:




Depending on what duties I have that day I get up anywhere from 6-7. Mornings consist of meds, chores and a whole lot of girls (18 in total) sharing 4 bathrooms. Ya…its crazy. 750 is roll call for breakfast and we all head down to the dining hall. After breakfast we come back to the house for about 10 minutes to freshen up and then the girls are off to school. From 830-9 we have “Jesus Time”, which I will admit is hard to take advantage of. Its easier to get “housekeeping” stuff done as it seems there is so much to do. After quiet time class/orientation begins at 9am and goes until 12. Lunch is from 12-1 and then we have orientation from 1-230 again. The end of this week will conclude our orientation and we will start regular classes on Monday. That means that we will have from after lunch until 230 off every day…PRAISE THE LORD!!!!

At 230 we have what is called a “Bigs Meeting” and we organize the rest of the day for Littles. Quite often we have to coordinate room groundings, school groundings and work hours. Those are all basically like detention. The Little serve time for things that they need discipline for and we do it right along side them. We work with them and literally “do life” with them. Its cool, but can get tiring after hours and hours of detention. This lasts until 6 pm when we all have supper together. Some days my room is on supper so we are responsible to make supper, serve it and clean up. This is usually a 3 1/2 hour chore and is quite a chore! Myself and my 3 three little sisters that share a room with me do this together. Cooking for 40 plus people the first time was intimidating….but I got good reviews!

After supper there may or may not be more groundings that need to happen. Most people will spend some time outside, hang out in the living room, watch some tv, that kind of thing. This whole time me and my fellow Big sisters are responsible for coordinating everyone. We have to know where everyone is at all times. At 8pm it is study hall time and all the girls have to work on homework. If they are done their homework they can work on counselling assignments, journal or read their bible. Serious stuff teaching discipline…..

At 930 we have what is called room time. It is a time set aside and designated to spend with your room. I have 3 girls in my room, which makes those three girls my Little sisters. At 10 pm everyone has to be in their room, big lights are out at 1030 and reading lights out at 1045. At that point I can either go to bed, spend time with other leadtimers, check my email….or I am assigned “night duty” and have to sit outside the bedrooms until Midnight. This frees up the other Bigs to go do things like I mentioned. And when I am not on night coverage, someone else doing it frees me up……all bigs have to be in their rooms by midnight.

Then its bedtime and we get up to do it all again the next day! Its such an intense schedule!!

Saturdays and Sundays are a little different, and a little more relaxed. We do work projects and still have chores. Church takes up Sunday morning and Sunday afternoon we have a rest hour which is the highlight of my week! All in all…I am pretty busy!