Trials of Motherhood

It has donned on me this year, that my life is compacted into this funny little window of non-eventful events! A typical day goes something like this:

5:00am: Alarm goes off...sometimes I get up!
5:15am: 2nd alarm goes off...usually I get up
5:30am: 3rd alarm goes off. I get up. Do the morning routine (ie shower, dress, contacts, brush hair & teeth, etc.)
6:30am: Get Arianne up (very grudgingly, usually) and get her dressed, hair brushed, and teeth brushed.
I then proceed to run around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to get breakfast for Arianne, make sure she has lunch or money, get her backpack, get her coat, get my purse, my cellphone, my keys, feed the cat...I'm sure I've forgotten something!
6:50am: When I SHOULD be leaving, but usually I'm not ready yet!
7:00am: Get in the car, realizing I'm running behind...AGAIN! Take Arianne to daycare, drive for 40 minutes to work.
7:45am-4:45pm: Work.
4:45pm-unknown: Drive home! Gotta love Ft Lewis traffic! The clincher here is getting to Olympia by 6:00pm to get Arianne from daycare before they close!
6:00pm-6:15pm: Arrive home, get dinner started. Try to get Arianne to get her homework done (20 minutes of reading, write one or two sentences about each book read).
7:00pm: By now, homework is usuallydone, but not always. If it is, get Arianne working on her "getting ready for bed" list (Snack, brush teeth, take bath, pj's, story, bed).
8:00-8:15pm: Put Arianne in bed. Watch a movie, or clean, or work on photos, or something until my husband and I decide we've been up too long and crash.

Like I say...uneventful! I have yet to figure out how to make my life less mundane without making it more stressful. Hmmm....