Time (after time)

So today I woke up at – wait for it – the first alarm! 6:00am, people! This might be late for those of you who go to work in the mornings, but I previously had streamlined my morning activities to be getting up at 6:30 and out the door by 6:45. Unfortunately, this was before I started actually taking care of my skin, wearing a reasonable amount of makeup, and most importantly – before kindergarten.

My alarm goes off at 6:00am, but I am conditioned to not hear it – C wakes up and gets up, crosses the room, hits the snooze and comes back to bed. Two or three times, actually. (we found when then alarm was next to us, we turned it off in our sleep). I either get up at 6:18 or 6:27, rush around and do what I can. There’s often a lot of yelling as I’m trying to get Spencer to get his butt out of bed. I don’t have to get them ready – C will do that since he works from home most of the week and always takes them to school, but I want them started.

Since school started, I have been late 4/5 times a week, which obviously needs to stop before they make me change my schedule (ahem, again). Yesterday I got up at my usual time but I forewent my makeup routine and instead threw on some clothes and made breakfast for the boys. They were so pleasant that I decided I needed to actually get up earlier so I could get myself ready before making breakfast and having sweet boys instead of sullen and irritated slow-to-get-up children.

And it worked! I’m sure it won’t tomorrow, but today was beautiful. I rose at 6:00am on the dot. I leisurely did my makeup and decided what to wear (I have a meeting so I needed to dress nicely but of my black skirts I have one that’s a size 6 and one that’s a size 16. I am somewhere in the middle. Gray pants it is! My beautiful Calvin Klein blouse I paid too much money for but love love love! Done!) C got up (6:18) and took a shower and I got the kids dressed (while explaining to Spencer that while his uniform clothes are mix and match, if he wears the navy top with the navy bottom he will look like the janitor).

I made breakfast for them – Spencer is obsessed with Dunkin Donuts egg and cheese wraps, so his favorite breakfast for me to make him is an egg and cheese tortilla, and I gave them Greek yogurt and banana with it. Henry doesn’t eat eggs so he got cranberry walnut bread. I packed some breakfast for myself and left exactly on time, kissing all my boys and out the door. It really was a loverly morning.

Exactly on time. You know what that means though, right?

First I forgot my phone. I was in my neighborhood still, so I doubled back and picked it up. No problem.

Then there was a pedestrian hit on my route to work. A shoe and a backpack in the road, a damaged car, unknown status of the pedestrian and cars as far as the eye can see.

Yeah, didn’t make it on time.