Morning Must-Dos not Done

The other day I opened my "home binder" (which rarely gets opened anymore) and looked at my "morning routine." It went like this:

• Wake up and start coffee
  Make bed and tidy room
  Contacts in and wash face, swish and swipe bathroom
  Coffee and quiet time
  Check email and to do list
  Empty dishwasher, clean coffee maker
  Prepare breakfast—kids up!
  Breakfast and family devotions
  Feed baby
  Everybody dressed
  Switch laundry to dryer
  Plan supper

This was my morning:

• Stumble out of bed at 6:30.
• Scowl as I said "Don't talk to me yet" while I tried to start the coffee.
• Get backpacks and snacks ready (which should have been done the night before).
• Prepare breakfast as jess dresses the kids (I LOVE my husband--especially as he tries to get Ella up and she yells (really, yells) "YOU WOKE ME UP!" and starts sobbing, which continues through breakfast)
• Let baby cry in bed until I can finish getting bags packed--including finding 3 "K" words for show-and-tell (which should have been done the night before)
• Kiss 2 big kids and husband goodbye
• Feed baby while drinking lukewarm coffee and checking emails
• Warm coffee, change 2 poopy diapers, put laundry in the dryer, come back to lukewarm coffee.
• Warm again, take a satisfying sip, then try to get dressed, make bed, and entertain baby.
• Change another poopy diaper, coffee's cold again.
• Start washing sheets from bedwetter and think "I HAVE GOT TO WAKE UP EARLIER!"
• Rewarm coffee again (I'm becoming my mother-in-law), take fussy teething baby in my lap, and browse blogs a little, since I decide I can't get much done while she wants to be held (or at least that's my excuse).
• Become convicted at my waste of a morning and write a blog about it (instead of getting off my %$#&$ butt)

I read some blogs by homesteading, homeschooling mothers of a zillion children, highly organized, utterly frugal, proverbs 31 women and they can sometimes be helpful and inspiring. but sometimes they can make me feel like (running the list through my head of who reads this blog) crud. Still, I think the waking up earlier part has got to happen. But today I'm going to leave the dirty dishes and take Si to the library. Hope your day goes well!