The funny thing is...we plan to get there ON TIME! But, that's the PROBLEM!!
We need to plan to get there 10-15 minutes BEFORE - and if we get there then, then great! We can sit in our cars, and have a little reading time or whatever. (But, really, you know that won't really happen because there are ALWAYS those things that will happen and eat up those 10-15 minutes). Here are some of the reasons I've been late - today being the first:
1) While going to the car, Evelyn was running around the car playing and bonked her head and just cried and cried. THEN, literally 1 minute after that, while walking to the car to get in, she falls and skins her knee. This time, she's SCREAMING and wants a band-aid. Fumbling through the car, I find the first-aid kit and put a band-aid on her knee. So, now I am 8 minutes late.
2) Looking for the car keys - I'm so bad about changing jackets all the time and so I have to look through my jackets...oh, and my bags...love my bags and I have a zillion of them...always changing them, so I have to look through them to see which bag my keys are in! I'm so weird. :)
3) Shouting out directives to the kids to do things while I'm getting all my things together and then, I'm standing at the door ready to go, and I look at the kids and they have not listened to any of the directives. Mitchell is standing there with his hair all crazy, no socks, no shoes and he did not brush his teeth with that toothbrush I left on the sink for him; Evelyn is still in her pajamas because I forgot to put clothes on her. :) Typical :)
4) I'm thinking I'm doing SO well with time and wondering why...the kids are fed, I'm dressed, they're dressed and so I even manage to read them a little devotion or something before we go. We get everything ready to go and Mitchell says, "Where's my lunch Mama?" Well, shoot.
5) Can't find ANYTHING some mornings!!! Ugggh...this happens when I don't do the dishes and tidy up the night before - it's BOUND to make me late the next day...not to mention, just stressed. Bad idea to forego the clean-up the night before - makes the next day a mess.
What makes you late and have you ever tried this method? I'm going to try it and will let you know how it goes.
