School Days

We are two weeks into our new daycare/school/work schedule and my it's exhausting! I get up at 6 a.m. and get myself mostly ready. I cannot get dressed this early in the process, otherwise I will end up with spit up, jelly, or a wide variety of other items smeared on my work clothes. At 6:45 I wake up the girls and get them moving so that by 7 a.m. they are eating breakfast. It takes Evy 30 minutes to eat a half of a bagel and Charlie eats pretty much nothing. While they are "eating" I pick out their clothes, distribute vitamins, pack backpacks, pack my lunch and try to remember what other items need to be lugged along this morning (a family picture for crafts at daycare? Three clean outfits for Will because he spit up on all of them yesterday? A library book that needs to be returned? A white T-shirt for tie-dying? The morning snack for the Kindergarten class? A check for PTO?). At 7:15 I wake Will up and give him his bottle. While feeding Will I bark commands at the girls "Eat your breakfast!" "Please eat!" "You have got to hurry up and eat!" "Go potty!" "Brush your teeth!" "Please get dressed!" "Get dressed!" By 7:30 I start to sweat. I help Charlie get dressed, brush hair and get shoes and jackets on. I circle back through the house to make sure that lights are off, toilets are flushed and no sinks are running (yes this has happened before). I put my clothes on knowing that there is minimal amount of time for them to be wiped out by the kids. By 7:45 we are loading into the van. I make one or two trips back into the house to grab whatever has been forgotten. The girls fight over toys while I drive to daycare to drop off Charlie and Will. At 8:10 we are back in the van and on the way to Evy's school. Around 8:20 I pull into the car line and Evy unbuckles herself and puts her backpack on. She hops out of the van and says "Wish me luck!" Then the van is quiet and I enjoy 11 minutes of silence as I drive to my office building. The good news is that by 8:30 a.m. I have completed the most difficult part of my day. Cheers!