School Mornings

Households with school going kids inside them, look like war zones every working morning. Everyone runs on a tight schedule - the adults and children, both. 

Sleep time at 8.30pm, wake-up at 5.45am, 3 tiffin boxes to be packed before 6.30am, a quick workout to be squeezed in before 7.10am (which includes fruit shopping for the week) and a quick dash back home to get the tiny human stuffed with breakfast and bathed for school.

While the tiny human looks shiny and happy, the adult would closely resemble a wheezy, sweaty, stinky potato that badly needs a boil and a couple of pressure cooker whistles to get all set for the day.

That's one day already rolled into a day that hasn't even begun yet. Once the tiny human leaves, the adult proceeds to start living, but not before he/she has had a good plop on the bed for 10 solid minutes at least. 

Time to login to work and talk like an adult human being for a couple of hours, until aforementioned tiny human being comes back from school. More cranky now, less shiny and more smelly.

Round #4 of eating begins, getting down to school homework and bathing (all this while the adult still juggles residual work that is left for the day).

Slowly and steadily the day ends, dinner is eaten and everyone is ready for bedtime again. And the cycle repeats until one or both of them die.

Sigh! I'm tired just writing all this down. Happy first day of school, after summer vacation, to every hassled or non hassled parent in the world.