Thursday mornings
Diana works today, and Ethan does not have school (he goes Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays).
Wakeup time is between 7:30 and 7:45, in time to hand out multi-vitamins. Take a tea coaster and fan out five gummi vitamins, and put one womens multi-vitamin. If the day of the month is odd, Ethan gets first choice for vitamins (he gets two) and hands Mommy her vitamin. Then Carissa picks one of the remaining three gummi vites.
Breakfast can go longer for everyone today, but you still need to allow time for a shower and getting slow kids dressed.
At 9:45 make sure the final preparations are being made to get out the door - get hair combed, brushed, and/or gelled as needed, and pack up your lunch.
One fun tradition in the minivan ride over to daycare is borrowed from the air travel industry, and the kids snack on nuts on the way. So far they've been introduced to cashews, almonds, and macadamia nuts this way.
Give Carissa a hug and a kiss at daycare, and give Ethan a hug and a kiss and a light headbonk (No Kiefers!), and they go do their thing, and you go do yours.