Thirteen Things I Did in the First 45 Minutes after I Woke Up
1. 6:44...opened my eyes and realized that my alarm didn't go off. I use my cell phone as an alarm and I had it on vibrate. Duh. I usually leave to drive carpool at 6:40.
2. 6:45...called another carpool parent who said she would drive the rest of the kids (bless you, Emma!)
3: 6:46...pushed the on button on my coffee maker, thanking myself for having the forethought to set it all up last night.
4. 6:47...my son comes running into my room saying, "Mom! What the heck? It's 6:47!"
5. 6:48...poured his cereal, woke my daughter to the anticipated drama, started making lunches.
6. 6:52...went into my daughter's room and made huge sweeping threats if she didn't get up and get moving RIGHT NOW!!!
7. 6:53...finished making lunches and packed them in the appropriate containers.
8. 6:54...finally poured myself a cup of coffee...took two or three big slugs of it and poured it into a "to-go" cup to take with us.
9. 7:00...realized that we might just make it.
10. 7:03...remembered that for a variety of reasons including golf yesterday, subbing for Bunco last night and my daughter's babysitting job last night, I had left my car in the parking lot by the golf course figuring I could drive over in the golf cart to get it in the morning.
11. 7:04...sped (inasmuch as my golf cart can speed) to where my car was, left the cart there, drove my car back to my house.
12. 7:08...finally got the kids loaded up and started pulling out the driveway. (Please note that at no time thus far have I mentioned changing out of my pajamas...so yes, I was driving a golf cart in our neighborhood in my pajamas and was now driving my potentially late children to school in my PJ's, not knowing if being late was going to mean that I would have to get out and sign them in at the office.)
13. 7:30...pulled back into my driveway after dropping my daughter off at 7:21 (her school starts at 7:20, but I figured all the people in front of and behind me were late too, so how bad could it be?) and dropping my son off at 7:26 (his school starts at 7:30, so now we were actually ON TIME!!!
Whew! I feel like I have lived half of a day already. I am thankful for Emma who was able to drive at a moment's notice, the traffic for being somewhat cooperative, the policeman who works traffic at the corner where we turn into the high school carpool lane, my children who turned it on and made it happen in record time, my pajamas for being presentable enough that if I absolutely had to, I could have gone into the office to sign them in, the fact that I DIDN'T have to go into the office to sign them in, the fact that we live in a SMALL TOWN where the schools are close enough together to drive between schools in 5 minutes and the fact that I am now sitting here typing this and drinking my second cup of coffee!
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