School Day Mornings Suck

One of the worst jobs about being a Mom is having to get the kids up every morning. I hate it. It sucks. I hate waking anyone up because I hate to be woken up. But it's my job to go in there and wake up two peacefully sleeping children. It takes anywhere from 15 minutes to 30 minutes. I try and try to wake them up nicely. But most mornings they won't get on up and so I end up yelling and threatening to take previleges away. So, then there is an order for the morning to go smoothly: Daughter gets up, goes to bathroom downstairs, gets dressed, brushes hair, comes upstairs for breakfast. Son gets up, comes upstairs, uses bathroom, gets dressed, combs hair, comes to table for breakfast. No matter how many times I tell them the order, most mornings they do something out of order and then it takes longer. This morning daughter came wondering upstairs and sat on the couch before doing any of the other things she should do prior to coming upstairs. Then when I tell her to go back downstairs she gets all upset. This sets the mood for the morning. Yeah. Son came up and did everything correctly this morning. But now he is all ready to walk out the door and we are waiting on sister. We need to leave right now. But she is downstairs, slowly brushing her teeth. Lord help me, I'm going down there.