i have decided....

[rainbabies]

that getting up in the morning vs. getting up and moving in the morning are two different things. i have never been a morning person....still a night owl..and manage to drag my arse out of bed w/ the kids. BUT..getting up, dressed, kids ready, fed, dressed, teeth brushed, in the car and ds to pre-school in the a.m. (only two days a week) is killing me.

holy crap, when he starts kindergarten next year, im gonna be sooo screwed.

[GrayMatterWife]

Re: i have decided....

that getting up in the morning vs. getting up and moving in the morning are two different things. i have never been a morning person....still a night owl..and manage to drag my arse out of bed w/ the kids. BUT..getting up, dressed, kids ready, fed, dressed, teeth brushed, in the car and ds to pre-school in the a.m. (only two days a week) is killing me.

holy crap, when he starts kindergarten next year, im gonna be sooo screwed.

I'm kind of freaking out about kindergarten start time, too. Right now, our mornings are TOTALLY variable. Whatever I feel like when I get up, pretty much. Three or four days a week, I get up when DH does, go jogging while he showers, then shower and go back to bed and sleep for another hour, then get up around 7:30 AM. On those days, DS doesn't get up until almost 8:00 AM and isn't at daycare until 9:15 AM. Other days, I won't go back to bed after jogging and just get DS up, get him dressed, and we walk (which he LOVES...why, I have no idea) to daycare so he's there anywhere between 6:30 AM and 7:30 AM. But then there are the days when I just do free weights at the house and don't get up until 7:00 AM and DS gets to school around 8:30 AM. It is completely random and at my whim.

There is no way I am going to like being frozen into a set schedule. I love my mornings because they are totally my own, to structure however I want.

I hear ya!

I'm scared. School starts next week, and that means no more sleeping 'til 10am and going to bed at 2am for me. This is going to hurt!

[v-girl]

Well, stock your fridge full of Diet Coke and GET MOVIN'! I have to get up before 6 (usually between 5:30 and 5:45) to get myself and the three kdis ready, drop baby off at the sitter, head down the highway about 17 miles in morning traffic and drop the girls off at school and then go another 5 or so miles on to work. And then be alert and coherent enough to interact with co-workers. No one talks to me unless they see the Diet Coke in hand or know that I already drank it. If they make the mistake of approaching me when I have had it...

Sunday is my only sleep-in day since my 9 year old has violin at 8:30 on Saturdays, followed by ballet for both girls -- and her violin lesson is about 30 minutes from home.

[DCJenn]

I pack as much of our lunches as I can the night before. I pack my gym bag the night before and that includes packing whatever I'm going to wear to work. We wake up an hour before we need to leave the house and I have the coffee maker set on a timer. I drink two cups at home and take a roadie. (My trainer gets so mad at me- I never drink water before going to the gym- but it's that or sleep on the treadmill)

If it's a non-gym day I shower the night before and then only have to re-wet and dry my hair.

It's San Antonio in August so make-up consists of moisturizer and mascara. Anything more melts right off.

Jenn

[Sheherezade]

Our morning routine is scheduled down to the minute. We've been having a new surface put on our street -- and the additional 2 minutes of travel time required by the detour is killing me. :> Seriously! 2 minutes and I'm thrown off!

I hate the morning "rush hour". 6:30 am till 8:15. Then.....I have some flexibility till school's out at 2:45.

I should just stick my head back in the sand...

School starts at next Wednesday. At 8 am. :horror: No bus. And more importantly, no neighbor to walk the child to the bus. This could be interesting.

[peggyfromwastate]

Morning routine: get up at 640 am, get kids up at 655 am, get them in the car to trive DD to her bus at 705 am, drop her off at her bus at 710 am, go home get breakfast etc at 715 am, break up fights from 715 am to 8 am...

To the minute.

DCJenn - you are an organization goddess.

I'm starting to realize that having to get Jacob up for school is actually good for me. I've always been a sleep-til-they-wake-me SAHM, and I think it's allowed me to be lazier than I should have been. Now I have to be up, and if I'm up I make them a nice breakfast, I've made his lunch the night before, I fill his water bottle, walk him to school, come home and shower, waste some time here, and then get on with stuff that needs to be done.

[PrincessFiona]

I know...the mornings are killing me here right now.

I'm up at 6.15 and then get Andrew and Aidan ready....We're in the car by 7.20 and then....it takes me an entire hour of driving to get Andrew to school and Aidan to preschool. This week the montessori schedule has also been so lame that I have had to turn around and pick Aidan back up within an hour or two....and...I have to pick up Andrew each day at 3.10.

Seriously though...by 11am I am ready for a long nap.....

I will be driving around like crazy too, once school starts on Tuesday. My kids will be 3rd grade and 1/2 day kindergarten. So, there will be three trips to and from their school each day (20 minutes each way).

Yes, grade school is such a different world than being a SAHM with little children.

- - - all that gazing into their milky faces....
- - - -nowhere we had to be...
- - - -taking naps together (at least with the first)

am I remembering it right?

perhaps I'm forgetting a few of the more difficult details.

At least I have not forgotten well enough to succumb to my 5 year old daughter's constant begging for a baby!

m

you can do it

Don't worry, rainbabies, you'll make the adjustment just fine. When it comes time for kindergarten, start moving bedtimes earlier gradually about a month before school starts. And make sure you have dark curtains in your kids' rooms to block out that evening summer sun!

I actually like having to get up early now (did I say that??) and take DD to school . . . then the 2 boys and I have some putter time in the morning that is actually relaxing.