Most weekday mornings, I hit the snooze button three or four times. I rub my eyes, crawl out of bed, turn on the Keurig, and make breakfast.
I wake the (unwilling) kids and sit them at the table. They are met with warnings of what will happen if they don’t eat, if they don’t get dressed, if they don’t brush their teeth on time.
I turn on the music and tell them that I’m going to take a shower.
By the time I get out, you’d better have eaten your food! START. EATING.
When I get out, I hear it. It’s the only time that I ever cringe at hearing their giggles. The fun that they’re having. I lose it.
WHY HAVE YOU NOT BEEN EATING? YOU ONLY HAVE FIVE MORE MINUTES, THEN IT’S TIME TO GET DRESSED! EAT!
These mornings don’t go well. I lose my patience, I yell, I threaten, I eventually get two kids out of the house and on the way to school with no patience and blood boiling.
BUT.
Once in a while, it happens. Once every few days, they’ll eat. They’ll get dressed, and they’ll be ready for school. And when they are ready and waiting, Ivy and I have time to sneak off to the bathroom to do her hair. We hear Jewel singing; I hum along as I brush and braid and spray. Ivy giggles and instructs.
When the dog bites, when the bee stings. When I’m feeling sad. I simply remember my fav-or-ite things, and then I don’t feel so bad.
These are the mornings that I live for.
yes you and your Mom are both awesome!
And we do pretty good hair, too!
May you have many such awesome mornings!
One can hope. 🙂
I can't imagine mornings with both of mine in school. I can wrangle Abbey out of the door for preschool with half of my sanity intact, but getting Dylan ready, too? I will brush up on "My favorite things"…
Oy. it's a challenge. Thank goodness I don't have to take all four kids when I drop the big two at school (most of the time).
I hear ya! I hear ya….*sigh*
Mornings. Ugh.
It's those moments when things go well that make it all worth it.
They are the best, for sure.
I only have to get 1 ready for school now and he can basically do that himself. I don't know what I'm going to do when I have to get the next one ready too!
She's precious! I can relate though. My kids never eat their breakfasts easily either. I'm always dashing through the room saying, "take another bite! did you take a bite?" And it's ridiculous. I mean, they've got to be hungry…right?
Here's to (the hope of) independent kids and easy mornings!
That is a morning that will make sweet memories for your children….those last forever. 😉
I'd say that 99% of weekday mornings are frustrating for me because of similar issues. My boys don't eat when I tell them to or get their shoes on when I tell them to. They barely make the 7:28 bus. But then, that 1% of the time will come round and I'll have two boys ready to go with time to spare and it's heaven!
She looks so cute! Our mornings are mostly frustrating, and I'm a mean mom and won't fix Reagan's hair half the time because I'm so frustrated by the whole morning experience. But sometimes we get it right!
Sound of Music is my favorite movie ever – and now I have My Favorite Things in my head. I'm fine with that though, so thanks 🙂
cute cute cute!
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