Yesterday I shared our morning routine. Well, hubby had to go to work early this morning, so I was back to doing the morning rush by myself.
Thought you might be interested in how it went…
Hubby woke the older girls up on his way out the door. They had breakfast, cleared the dishwasher and prepared some of the lunches. It is a good thing they wake up early, because this took them an hour today.
While they were doing that, I had a shower and got ready. I helped DS4 with his breakfast and clothes. I then finished off making lunches for 4 little people.
DD2 slept in until 8am. She wasn’t a happy chappy so there was a bit of negotiating (“no I don’t want it!”) when it came to the clothes she wore today. In hindsight I should have given her two choices when offering her clothes, because that usually works (and is quicker!).
There were problems at the breakfast table when I gave her some of my yoghurt in the “wrong” bowl. DS4 diffused everything when he poured DD2 a cup of milk to “make her feel better”. After that she decided she would eat the yoghurt after all, from the “wrong” bowl.
After breakfast it was off to find socks and pack bags. Finding socks, is probably my biggest problem in the morning. I breath a big *sigh of relief* whenever I find a matching pair!
From the moment I call out “time to get in the car”, it probably takes just over 10 minutes for every to get everyone loaded in the car. “Get in the car and put your seatbelt on please” “Have you got everything?” “In the car please!” etc etc. After getting the girls to school on time, I returned home quickly to put a load of washing on, grabbed some things for my errands, made myself a snack (forgot to eat breakfast), and then I was off to drop the littlies at Playcentre.
*phew*
P.S. There is actually an online forum called “unmatched sock wearers unite”. Perhaps we should subscribe to it! Then maybe the unloved wee basket of odd socks will get to see some daylight. I love their blurb:
For those of us that do not care if our socks don’t match when we leave home..even when we take our shoes off at a date or friends home, and they see we are wearing one fish sock and one christmas sock..
