How will the school year impact your study time? Or will it?

Can you believe that summer is almost coming to an end? It seems I say this every year, and every year summer flies by faster and faster.

Our summer weeks have been consumed with a lot of travel. And a lot of juggling.

In June the kids and I explored Boston together for a few days then my husband joined us and we continued on to Vermont for a week at the oh-so-delightful Tyler Place.

Once we came home, the boys jumped in to Scout day camp (in the blazing hot Texas summer sun) for a few days, then the boys took off for a week of sleep away camp. Vacation Bible School was next and then we sat still for a bit. Or, at least the kids did.

In July I traveled to two blog conferences on back-to-back weekends and then traveled with the kids to Florida to visit family three days after I returned from the second blog conference. I am still Florida and will return home to my husband this weekend.

As much as I love travel and I have enjoyed every single trip I’ve taken this summer, I am really looking forward to school starting and life getting back into a bit of a routine.

Since we’ve launched the current session of Bible in 90 Days here on MomsToolbox, I have been home only seven of the days of the program. To read my Bible each day I have crept out of hotel rooms in the early morning hours and sat on a hallway floor (so as not to wake roommates), read with a flashlight in hopes of not waking sleeping children and tried my very best to keep Bible reading a priority each day. One of the days I had to double up because of a missed reading, but that’s it.

For some of you, the onset of school will mean it will be easier to have an un-rushed devotional time, for some of you it will mean your devotional time will become more cramped and for others the traditional school calendar will have no impact on your devotional schedule at all.

For me, the natural schedule school brings will make it easier for me to spend more time alone in prayer and I look forward to that time.

What about you? Whether you are reading the Bible in 90 Days with us or not, how does your devotional time compare in the summer versus the school year? Which times of year are easier for you to read, journal and listen? Or do the seasons not impact you at all?