Morning Routine

The kids have to leave for the bus stop by 6:50 in the mornings, which can make for a bit of a rush. To ease the routine, we pick out clothes the night before and make sure backpacks are packed and ready to go. We like them to sleep as late as possible, so their alarms go off at 6:13 (don't ask, I have no idea how that time was decided!). They get dressed and head straight downstairs for breakfast. Most mornings its cereal, but sometimes we have pancakes left from the weekend, and tomorrow we'll have homemade banana bread--yum! While they work on eating, I pack their lunches. We usually finish at the same time and then I fix hair while they put on shoes and jackets and lip balm. There's not much time built in for extras, but 97% of the time we run like a well-oiled machine.