Monday through Friday we have a typical morning routine around our house. Adam gets up at 6 a.m. to go and play basketball with a group of guys at the church, but he is always home by the time the alarm on my watch starts to beep at 7:30 a.m. My goal is to get up by 7:38 a.m. I always wake up Jenna first because she has a more difficult time waking up and CANNOT be rushed. When I wake Britton he pops up like he wasn't even sleeping at all and starts to immediately make his bed. Then I usually go back to Jenna's room to make sure that she really is getting up, she has a tendency to snooze sometimes.
Once downstairs there is an absolute guarantee that at least one person is on the heating vent in the family room. This is what it looked like this morning when I made it downstairs:
Yes, there is a heating vent down there and yes, it is always occupied by someone between 7:30 and 8:10 in the morning. Jenna missed this chance at 7:41, but after breakfast and before getting her hair done she finally made her way there.
Since Jenna cannot be rushed, eating breakfast was a problem that we solved with Carnation instant breakfast. It is like chocolate milk, but has nutrients in it. Most importantly Jenna can make it herself and drinks it every morning for breakfast. Without fail she holds onto the glass with both hands and drinks it without taking a break, like this:
Every morning. It is as predictable as the sunrise. At our house the other breakfast staple is:
Summer, winter, it doesn't matter. We go through a LOT of hot chocolate. We also go through a lot of toast.
This is Britton's toast before he started eating it.
This was how it looked when he was done. Very typical. It drives me absolutely nuts. He loves to dip his toast in hot chocolate (ewww!) but he refuses to drink any of the hot chocolate so he has been banned from having and therefore wasting hot chocolate.
Korinne caught in the act.
This morning Britton was begging Korinne to let him dip his toast in her hot chocolate because "Mom and Dad won't let me have my own." She finally relented and he was very happy, just not happy enough to actually eat the crust of his toast.
While everyone is eating I usual open all of the blinds in the family room and kitchen. It snowed a few days ago, but already there is more gunk in the air. This was our view of the smog this morning:
Between 8:10 and 8:15 a.m. Britton and Jenna get their coats and backpacks and after family prayer everyone hugs everyone else and they are off to catch the bus. Sometimes Korinne's watches them from the window. Not long after they left this morning I caught her with a plate of powdered sugar.
Her latest thing has been to just get into the pantry and help herself to a plate of powdered sugar. She fixes it herself and then hopes we aren't looking. I'm sorry, but eating powdered sugar with a spoon like this is just nasty! On Monday we caught her 2 different times with a bowl of ice cream. We had no idea she could just help herself to ice cream out of the freezer and dish up a bowl by herself! Needless to say the ice cream has been moved. She is definitely an "ask for forgiveness instead of permission" kind of girl. Grrrr.
Yup, another typical morning.
4 comments:
The plate of powdered sugar made me laugh out loud (and gag a little).
I know I have said it 17 times before, but Jenna and Emily are so similar it is kind of spooky.
Tell Korinne that she needs to change to brown powdered sugar it tastes better. It was a Lewis boy trick.
You need a dog to eat the left over crusts!
Stephens Hot Cocoa (mint) is a staple in my house too (for me!)
When I was growing up, we dipped our fingers in butter and then the sugar bowl. We thought it was delicious, but a bowl of powdered sugar is just the wrong texture for me. Yuk!
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