Wednesday morning are our piano lesson days. In an ideal world, we are all up between 6 - 6:30 am in order to ensure we have plenty of time to get ourselves ready to go.
However, it is not always an ideal world, so usually our morning goes something like this:
7:15 - finally get out of bed; scrub face & teeth, get dressed. Skip makeup.
7:20 - wakes kids up gently.
7:25 - drag kids forcibly from bed/rip covers off body to generate movement.
7:30 - morph into Nag-Mom, which consists of reminding various Little Rutherfords every few minutes, "It's piano day - move faster!"
7:40 - check on morning chores to see what has been accomplished thus far: dishwasher emptied, paper recycling and piano books by the door, towel load started in washer, Abigail dressed, Elyas diaper changed (yet still mostly naked.)
7:42 - Bellow up the stairs that dad is due home in minutes and I'm telling on every child who isn't down stairs pronto!
7:45 - Begin assigning responsibilities to the bodies which are miraculously appearing before my very eyes. Send Keats back upstairs to put on pants, as they are definitely not optional.
7:48 - Greet Scott as he comes through the door. Remind Dawson to take commingled out back and return with the bag for drop off at the center on our way to piano. Go upstairs to get the rest off the dirty laundry and have a quick chat with Scott about his night.
8:00 - Morph into Super-Nag-Mom as I realize upon returning downstairs that every instruction I gave has been ignored. "Piano is a life skill and is not optional! Now GO GO GO!!!"
8:15 - Sit down for a moment to have breakfast with the kids. (Banana bread) Go over what school items they have assembled for their time at piano. Remind them of the items they have forgotten.
8:25 - Begin to load dishes as they come into the kitchen. Super-Nag the littles to finish their morning milk. Tell Dawson that if he can't focus he gets to clean every bathroom in the house all by his onsie this afternoon. Mind boggling how quickly he can change into Super-Focused-Teen.
8:30 - Alarm goes off on my phone reminding me it's time to start putting parkas on. Become Crazed-Super-Nag-Mom forcing everyone to increase their speed to that of light.
8:35 - Begin to herd Rutherfords to the van accompanied by backpacks, tote bags, packages to be shipped, commingled, and paper recycling.
8:40 - After only two "I Forgot!" trips back into the house, everyone is buckled and I start the car.
8:45 - Pull into recycling center and drop off our weekly accumulation.
8:50 - Pull into Dunkin Donuts where I order my standard reward coffee for accomplishing our getting out the doorness - XL Regular with extra cream and extra sugar. Pick up a Large Decaf cream & sugared coffee for our piano instructor.
9:02 - Pull into piano, only 2 minutes late.
Phew.
However, it is not always an ideal world, so usually our morning goes something like this:
7:15 - finally get out of bed; scrub face & teeth, get dressed. Skip makeup.
7:20 - wakes kids up gently.
7:25 - drag kids forcibly from bed/rip covers off body to generate movement.
7:30 - morph into Nag-Mom, which consists of reminding various Little Rutherfords every few minutes, "It's piano day - move faster!"
7:40 - check on morning chores to see what has been accomplished thus far: dishwasher emptied, paper recycling and piano books by the door, towel load started in washer, Abigail dressed, Elyas diaper changed (yet still mostly naked.)
7:42 - Bellow up the stairs that dad is due home in minutes and I'm telling on every child who isn't down stairs pronto!
7:45 - Begin assigning responsibilities to the bodies which are miraculously appearing before my very eyes. Send Keats back upstairs to put on pants, as they are definitely not optional.
7:48 - Greet Scott as he comes through the door. Remind Dawson to take commingled out back and return with the bag for drop off at the center on our way to piano. Go upstairs to get the rest off the dirty laundry and have a quick chat with Scott about his night.
8:00 - Morph into Super-Nag-Mom as I realize upon returning downstairs that every instruction I gave has been ignored. "Piano is a life skill and is not optional! Now GO GO GO!!!"
8:15 - Sit down for a moment to have breakfast with the kids. (Banana bread) Go over what school items they have assembled for their time at piano. Remind them of the items they have forgotten.
8:25 - Begin to load dishes as they come into the kitchen. Super-Nag the littles to finish their morning milk. Tell Dawson that if he can't focus he gets to clean every bathroom in the house all by his onsie this afternoon. Mind boggling how quickly he can change into Super-Focused-Teen.
8:30 - Alarm goes off on my phone reminding me it's time to start putting parkas on. Become Crazed-Super-Nag-Mom forcing everyone to increase their speed to that of light.
8:35 - Begin to herd Rutherfords to the van accompanied by backpacks, tote bags, packages to be shipped, commingled, and paper recycling.
8:40 - After only two "I Forgot!" trips back into the house, everyone is buckled and I start the car.
8:45 - Pull into recycling center and drop off our weekly accumulation.
8:50 - Pull into Dunkin Donuts where I order my standard reward coffee for accomplishing our getting out the doorness - XL Regular with extra cream and extra sugar. Pick up a Large Decaf cream & sugared coffee for our piano instructor.
9:02 - Pull into piano, only 2 minutes late.
Phew.
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