A Day in the Life

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What does a "typical" day at Sonshine Hacienda look like?

Even though no day is the same, we do have a pretty tight weekday schedule that we keep to, that looks like this:


6 a.m. - First pickup of the day: cook & 2 morning mamas

6:30 a.m. - Pablo, our maintenance man, arrives for the day

6:40 a.m. - Drive our 2 secondary (junior high) kids to school

7:15 a.m. - Breakfast

7:30 a.m. - Drive home our 2 night mamas

7:50 a.m. - Walk our 11 primary kids (first thru 6th grade) to school


9 a.m. - Drive our 5 kindergarteners (ages 3-5) to school

10:30 a.m. - Snack time for our 3 toddlers

12 p.m. - Pick up our kindergarten kids

12:15 p.m. - Lunch 


 1 p.m. - Pick up 2 afternoon mamas

2:30 p.m. - Pablo heads home

2:45 p.m. - Drive home the cook & 2 morning mamas; pick up our junior high kids

3 p.m. - Walk to school & bring home our primary kids

4 p.m. - Afternoon snack & homework


 5 p.m. - Showers & pajamas

6 p.m. - Dinner (by Chef Rand)

7:30 p.m. - Pick up our 2 night mamas

8:30 p.m. - Take home our 2 afternoon mamas

9 p.m. - Doors locked & security lights on for the night


We stick pretty tight to this schedule. It's just what happens in between those hours that is always a surprise! Whether it is crayons or play-doh, riding bikes or duck-duck-goose ("pato-pato-ganso"), a sick kid or a broken pipe, a surprise inspection or an emergency trip to the store to buy more salsa, we never know what the day will bring!

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