Things a Mommy Needs

My children are 3 years 3 months old, 20 months and 4 months old.  Some people are amazed that I’m “brave” enough to leave my house by myself with all of them.  I’m here to tell you that it is far more brave to stay home all day alone with them!  Not to say that it’s easy to get us all out the door….

1.  Feed children breakfast, and if lucky eat something myself.

2.  Get the kids dressed, brush their teeth and comb the three year old’s hair…while she wiggles, complains and is otherwise less than cooperative.

3.  Dress myself…quickly…before the children have a chance to UNdress themselves or create any huge messes.

4.  Repack diaper bag because the one year old unpacked it looking for snacks.

5.  Re-dress the now naked three year old.  She found the previous outfit to warm, not warm enough, too pink, not pink enough…etc.

6.  Load baby into car seat while three year old goes to the potty.

7.  Repack diaper bag, again.  You guessed it, the great snack hunter strikes!

8.  Put on everyone’s shoes.

9.  Shuttle children towards the door.

10.  Retrace the three year old’s steps from the entire morning, twice, to find the beloved teddy that goes EVERYWHERE with us.

11.  Finally find beloved teddy under the bed, behind the “treasure chest” where the three year old “forgot” she put him for his own safety.

12.  Shuttle children towards door but discover one year old has taken off his shoes and hidden them because he was having fun searching for the teddy.

13.  Find “hidden” shoes in one year old’s favorite hiding spot.  His bed.

14.  Shuttle children towards door….three year old has to go potty, again.

15.  Potty, wipe, flush and wash hands.

16.  Shuttle children towards door, go out door, lock door.

Whew, that only took an hour and a half!  Now I just have to load them all into the car, and that is another story entirely.