the dreaded school run

The hardest thing with children is getting them out of the house, with everything they need, on time!!

When they are little babies they will invetiably throw up on you or fill their nappies just as you are walking out of the door.

As toddlers you beg and beg them to go to the toilet before they leave and then just as you are doing up the seatbelt on the car chair 'I NEED A WEE'!!!

Now as a very grown up school attending boy, No1 son has found a new way of driving mummy to distraction.  He is quite capable of putting on shoes and coat and getting his bag so he informs me,

 So how come i leave the house in a dizzy whirl after trying to get madam to have a wee 'i dont need wee wee mummy' put her shoes on ' i want to wear wellies' and get a coat on 'dont do up my coat, i not wear hat, i got cold hands, where my gloves etc...!!! and when i turn around is he dressed and ready and waiting patiently by the door????? don't be ridiculous, one shoe is on, but the other has disappeared into the vortex that is the shoe box. the coat is on the floor being chewed by the dog whilst No1 son is rummaging round his packed lunch box to see what I have packed!!!!!
Mummy blows her top, children and puppy run for cover.
So, shoes on both, coats on both, bags in hand lets go.......... oh no, she then needs a wee, he needs to take something in for the topic table,  oh and mummy cant find the keys?!?

Keys were posted through the letter box onto the street - cos this is fun apparently!!!!

Then the most arduous task, a feat in mental strenght and endurance begins..... the car drive to school.... answering all the questions, listening to disney, trying to keep an eye on all the other mummies suitably distracted by their little darlings wandering into the road etc.....

Then we have the parking situation which can cause the red mist to desend on even the calmest person.  Up at school there are a million parking restrictions and two schools within spitting distance of each other so thats a lot of frustrated mummies trying to park as close to school as possible as the heavens have just opened and you didnt put the umbrellas in the car as you were dealing with the whole shoe fiasco!!!!!!!

Come quarter to nine I honestly feel like i have run a marathon, but its ok because i get to do it all again at three o'clock!!!

Who said it gets easier the older they get???