Things were going well this morning despite the children’s alarm clocks not going off, not sure if the human version of their alarm clocks went down well. A rendition of a One direction song for my seven year, well it made her smile, not sure if it was appreciated by anyone else in the house but she got up very perky this morning (doesn’t happen that often, she likes to sleep! I often point out to her that I like sleep too and would given a chance like a little bit more every now and then but hey I can’t have everything).
The ten year old was perhaps less happy with the beep beep beep I choose for him, so a grumpy boy made his way to breakfast. Breakfast went off well, no moaning about what was on offer, everyone ate and went to get washed and dressed, fabulous, all going well. Lunch boxes prepared, school bags packed everyone, wash, dress and ready by the allotted time.
Great I hear you say, well it was a little frosty this morning, Mr G being lovely, scraped the car for me before disappearing for a couple days. Then it went a little tits up. By the time we leave, the car had iced up again, I had not allowed anytime for this, I have to be in two different places at the same time. So like a mad man, I scrape the ice, only to find inside is so misted up we won’t be going any way for a minute or two, we are now 4 minutes behind schedule, a lot when you are working to a bit of tight schedule for the school run, seven year old is moaning about a lack of leg room in the back, ten year old is moaning about a lack of leg room in the front. Ahh I forgot to rebuild the car after carting all my gear on Saturday, so quickly I get in the back of the car adjust the seating to give everyone their allocated leg room, we are now 6 minutes behind. Finally I can see enough to drive, so we make our way to school, driving pass my daughters to get to my son’s school, can I drop her with anyone, nope , none of her friends are there yet – looks like both are going to be late. We had been doing so well, both children making it to school time, most of the time. We turn into the main road, always a bit dodgy, cars parked everywhere, can’t see up the hill you have to just go for it. Made it up in one piece, have right of way going up the hill. Double hand wave to a couple of Mum’s as we head down hill to my son’s school, decide to kick him out at the front rather the side, so that he is not too late for school, but we have a ditherer in front of us, this is not helping. We are now late for number one drop off, have less than 2 minutes to make it back home to drop off the car, to walk number two to school. Quickly we go round the housing estate, make it back onto the main road, up the hill to go down the hill, this where it goes all wrong. We don’t have right of way, cars are parked on our side of the road, lots of traffic coming up the hill. We are stuck! We make our way slowly down the hill pulling in at every gap to allow traffic up the hill. Three minutes late for number two, finally made it to the turning, have to go up on the pavement to get pass cars, thinking great I can kick Han out here, but no she is in the back of the car, I have three doors can’t get her out without getting out of the car, cars are now behind me, so we head off home, to park the car. Park car, grab stuff, run to school and hey we made in time to tag onto the end of the line. Number two on time!
