Morning Mayhem

I keep reading things about how to ease the morning stress, make the transition to school easy, reduce morning stress. So why are my mornings running late? I absolutely hate being late to anything, and when I stand there, fully dressed and waiting, lunches made, hair combed, waiting for a 9 year old to quit fussing with her hair, I wonder where I went wrong.

I know we stay up too late. That's a given, so it makes it hard to get up in the morning.

I guess we should lay out clothes the night before. I often do that, but last minute changes are always made.

Turning off the TV helps, but I don't always do it.

While these things are all problems, there are days when the TV is blaring, outfits are changed, lunches are not made, homework is finished and we still walk out of the door on time. There's no rhyme or reason to that.