Once again, Ellie barely caught the bus this morning. This is happening much too often. Our typical morning goes like this:
sometime between 5:30-7:00 – Ellie and/or Grace comes into our room to announce that they are awake. Thank you for sharing, now be quiet.
6:30 – alarm goes off
6:39 – alarm goes off
6:48 – alarm goes off
6:57 – alarm goes off, drag self out of bed
7:00-7:15 – put in contacts, quickly get dressed, get Colin, change diaper
7:15-7:25 – make breakfast
7:25-7:45 – eat breakfast
7:45 - some sort of time-warp takes place and suddenly I look at the clock and it says:
8:10 – start yelling at Ellie to "Hurry up! The bus will be here in 2 minutes! Hurry, hurry, hurry!!" Throw on her shoes, coat and backpack. Tell her to stop crying about me grabbing the wrong socks and assure her that she can wear the pink Hello Kitty socks tomorrow. Argue why she needs to wear a coat. Grab Colin, who LOVES the school bus and gets sad if he can not wave to it. Run outside.
8:13 – Bus arrives.
I think I need a more efficient system. Perhaps cutting out one or two of the "alarm goes off" steps out of my morning schedule would help. Going to bed before midnight would probably help that….
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I am the same way some mornings. This morning we got up 45 minutes before I leave for work…made it interesting that is for sure.
hysterical. I meet two different friends for breakfast at 6AM on Mondays and Thursdays. That helps get me moving! I get back at 7:15 and I’m all ready myself for the day and can focus on the kids. The other days though…I’m right there with you. At least one of the kids is fussing or fully crying about the wrong shoes, wrong coat, or because I won’t let them have a root beer barrel candy for a morning snack.
I’m with you on the snooze addiction! All the best selling the house – I didn’t know we are practically neighbors!