How I Get My Kids out of Bed by 8 am

Last week we went away to a friend's house. During that time none of us got up at our normal wakeup times. We were hot and exhausted. Now that we are back at home, we need to get back into our routine. I set my alarm for 6 am all week to get my 2 hours alone time in before the kids wake up. They usually wake up around 7:30 to get started on their Morning Routines.

Today this did not happen. My weekday alarm on my phone was not on, from last week's trip. The weekend alarm was on. It didn't occur to me that the weekday one was off after hearing the alarm all weekend. I got up at 9am and the kids didn't roll out till 9:30. Needless to say, Morning routines did not go well this morning.

The kids were talking to Jo-Jo about breakfast so she came to me and asked what was for breakfast. I took out my menu and it showed muffins. Well I was behind on my stuff, they were behind on their stuff, so making homemade muffins for breakfast was not going to happen today. I had not ground up the flour yet. When you add that process to making the muffins process it would have taken 45 minutes instead of 20 minutes. This was not going to go well today.

I told Jo-Jo, "Today was muffins for breakfast, but being that we all got up so late, we can't have them today. So, go ahead and make some eggs."  She sadly says back to me, "OOOOkkk, What is for breakfast tomorrow?" I looked at the menu and said, "Smoothies and pancakes." She runs out of the room yelling back at me, "OK". Then she announces to the rest of the kids, "We are getting up early tomorrow!" She then explained why they needed to get up early and decided that they were going to set the alarm clock upstairs for 7:30am.

I love my Menu! Thought this was worth sharing today. Have a Blessed Day!