Mornings are About to Get Tougher

Summer vacation is wrapping up and so is my sanity. In the mornings during the summer, I get up around 5:00 AM but I have an hour or two before the children get up. When they wake up it’s like a freight train hits the house so I have to be ready to deal with it. When summer vacation ends, my window of “aloneness” gets much smaller and my sanity is stretched to the limit.

When I was a kid, you had to drag me out of bed kicking and screaming. I’m not sure what type of children I have but as soon as the wake up it’s a five-alarm fire! Breakfast, snack right after breakfast, video games and then outside to play…and that is within the first hour of the morning. As a mom, I can’t keep up with them that early, especially when the only thing on my mind is...30-minutes and they are off to school!

This year I think I’m going to add a bit of artificial pep and invest in one of those Saeco Espresso Machines. I like espresso and maybe it will be a bit of a jolt when I can’t get out to Dunkin Donuts. A double-shot of caffeine will help me wake up so I can deal with the day!