Nothing is harder than getting up every day to the same frantic routine after a bad night’s sleep or not enough sleep at all.  Stress awaits your whole day.  You might as well just pull the covers over your head & hide…..or should you?

1. Pack lunches the night before while cleaning up the dinner dishes.  At some point, the kids will need to take this over, with your supervision of course.  Getting them involved early on teaches them how to pack a healthy lunch & lets you know from their choices what they like or don’t like.
2. Set the table for breakfast after dinner is cleaned up.  Get out cereals, bread for toast, get the coffee maker ready, etc.to make starting the day with a good meal a snap.  Have a designated time for everyone to eat breakfast so you can start the day together, discussing your day & heading off any last-minute challenges.
3. Load up backpacks before bedtime with signed-off homework, signed parent slips, completed homework. Then set them in your Command Center.

1. Sunday night, choose 5 outfits for the week & line them up in the closet as my nieces do.  Then, it’s just a matter of grabbing the next outfit.  No hunting, or stressing over what to wear.  My sister’s a genius!

1. This is the most important.  Make sure you are up before your children so you have time to at least shower & maybe get your make-up on.  It’s just like being the first one at work.  You feel more in control because you are ahead of everyone else & not stressed trying to play catch-up.