how I got to work on time

I woke up at 4 with a headache, took medicine, halfway snoozed til 5:20, dried & folded laundry for the preschool, made lunch, sliced up several pounds of cheddar cheese for the preschool, pilled and fed the cat, took out trash and rolled the can to the curb, emptied and reloaded the dishwasher, made breakfast, deleted some photos from my camera, watched 2 minutes of Barbie Rapunzel on video as instructed, got E ready and pulled myself together, loaded the car, delivered girl and laundry along with her lunch-coat-boots-mittens-and-3-loveys, and got to work early at 8:20!

The success factors: getting up at 5:20, knowing someone was going to be waiting to drive with me to a 9:00 meeting, and motivating E with the reminder (3x), "today's the Christmas party day!" It was postponed from the big snow weekend in December. She only fussed and complained a little bit.

Whew!