Mornings...oh mornings!

Our big accomplishment: we've successfully mastered (and at our house this DOES deserve the word master) getting out the door in the morning 4 of the 5 days a week without a total meltdown...on time...with smiles...AMAZING! Why we don't serve coffee to elementary schoolers is BEYOND me! I don't like to function without caffeine and early...think about 3 girls in the bathroom AT THE SAME TIME, choosing outfits - they care at this age...believe me, they care! Seriously, if it isn't the color, how things coordinate (which has NOTHING to do with how we the parents think things SHOULD coordinate), how they feel (nothing like the scratchiest for my girls apparently), how warm it is outside, how cold it is outside, the lack of socks, wrong sized undies, that is MY shirt mom NOT hers, what i think fits them funny compared to what they think fits them funny, we don't have anything going...I forgot they all have hair too...let's see, the longer the tanglier, we're growing out bangs with a hatred for hair clips (oh yeah, momma it is shaggy baggy even with a new haircut), and styles only a girl developing her sense of self can create...BIG BREATH!!! that's what our mornings need...new credo: CALM AND GENTLE!!! (Crazy and Great according to Natalie)...ut oh now i'm running late...more later!