My house is a warzone. A battlefield covered in the blood pouring from my ears. The kind of unfriendly territory usually reserved for terrorist bootcamps. If there was a reporter brave enough to be embedded with this troop, this would be his report on the nightly news:
All was quiet. Then, the alarms went off. It's 6:45 on a Tuesday morning in Kansas, but it may as well be the beaches of Normandy on that fateful day. There is painful screaming (though the injuries must be internal because I see no blood). There are people throwing themselves on the floor (though not onto grenades to save their friends). There is no end in sight to this misery. Wait.... this just in... it's 8:00. Quiet again. Whew... that was one I didn't think I'd survive.
This is what every single school morning is like. A battle to the finish to get two girls to school.
They all get up at 6:45. This gives them more than an hour to get out the door to school. Mind you, I've already been up for more than two hours. Their breakfast is on the table before they get up. Their clothes are layed out the night before. Their lunch boxes are packed while they're sleeping. ALL they have to do is eat, brush their teeth, fix their hair, and get dressed. In more than an hour. But, this is how it actually goes...
6:45 - 6:55 drag them (sometimes kicking and screaming) to the table
6:55 - 7:15 beg them to stop arguing with each other and just eat
7:15 - 7:45 beg them to stop arguing and just get ready for school
7:45 - 7:55 lose all control and start threatening to leave them at school that night so as to avoid all of this nonsense again tomorrow.
7:55 - 8:00 drive them to school trying to calm down enough to genuinely mean the "Have a great day! I love you!" that I'm obligated to say when they get out of the car.
8:01 celebrate that I have another twenty two hours, forty five minutes before I have to do that again.
What can I do to make our mornings run more smoothly? What on earth am I doing wrong? Is it possible that other houses are going through this every morning? I don't believe it. If they did, there would be a lot more boarding schools.
LOL - I wish I could give you some advice. My house is the same way. I am sure we are not alone in this. I'm impressed that their food is ready though. I'm not that good. Do they get a hot meal everyday?! You're going to make me feel like a bad mommy if they do!
ReplyDeleteBeth, yes they do get a hot meal every morning. However, that obviously doesn't mean you should feel bad!!! I figure that getting up between 4 and 4:30 every day means I HAVE to make them a full breakfast! It's my own self-induced pressure that makes me do it.
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