'Monday Morning Things To Do' by Nisha Patel

• Press snooze
• And again 5 minutes later
• Get out of bed
• Shower
• Quickly get ready
• Wake up the girls
• Resist the urge to pick up my phone
• Cajole the girls to clean their teeth but not with the threat that their teeth will fall out because they want the tooth fairy to come.
• Hurry the girls to eat 
• Get them changed into their uniforms
• Break up a fight
• Comb their hair
• Ask them to put their shoes and coat on
• And again
• And once more
• Breathe
• Remind them to pick up their bags
• Get them into the car
• Breathe
• Go to school
• Extract the youngest off my leg and into her class
• Wave the eldest off
• Drive home
• Breathe and relax
• Put the kettle on 
• Put laptop on
• Try and sip my too-hot coffee without burning my tongue while checking my list of things to do
• Start working
• Do some things I forgot to put on my to-do list and add it on so I can tick them off
• Do one thing on my actual to-do list
• Finish work
• Pick up the girls who now want to play with their friends
• Dodge the speeding cars around blind corners
• Sit in a traffic jam
• Finally, get home
• Cook the girls dinner while trying to make them do some homework
• Feed the girls
• Cook our dinner
• Leave the husband to get them ready for bed
• Go shopping
• Buy too much food and clothes and toys and other things that I don't really need but make sure I fold the receipt and put it away properly so that I can return it later
• Check on the girls
• Eat with my husband while watching TV for our couples time together in the evening
• Copy and paste the to-do list for tomorrow.
• Go to bed