It's All In The Timing

[woodwardiocom]

Well, that was interesting!

Ordinarily, our morning schedule is that we get up at 6am, and walk out the door at 7:30 to take Roo to daycare and then drive off to work. We each get 45 minutes of self-time, and 45 minutes of watching-the-kid-time. We trade off who goes first. The expectation is that, at handoff, the kid will be changed, dressed, and have had her morning bottle.

This morning I was single-parenting it. I made arrangements to take her to daycare early. So, up at 6am, throw some clothes on, get her bottle, feed her, change her, dress her, check diaper bag, pop her in the car. Take her to daycare, drive home again, shower, drink my morning caffeine, dress, check the time:

7:14.

Seriously? I actually had 16 minutes to kill if I wanted to leave at my usual time. Arguably more, since I wouldn't have to stop at daycare.

Some of that time came from grabbing breakfast on the road, instead of at home, and from not reading all my morning webcomics, but still. buxom_bey and I may want to rethink our morning schedules...

Comments

[drwex]

I wonder if this is a case of "if it ain't broke don't fix it." I'm one of those people who has to hyper-optimize EVERYTHING (my peculiar form of ocd) but I learned the hard way to plan slack into kid schedules because sometimes (often) Stuff Happens and things take longer than I expect.

YMMV, of course.

[ceo]

gosling and I have discovered repeatedly that the most reliable way to be late is to look at the clock and say "Oh look, we have plenty of time".

[omly.livejournal.com]

Yes this!