In and out

Oh, this story just captures my mom struggles so well, only I'm contending with two little ones instead of three. Getting everyone in the car to leave this morning was not too dissimilar--my older one insists tearfully she has to color a picture NOW instead of putting on her coat, and the younger one (covered in breakfast crumbs) is racing around the family room dismantling and throwing every movable object he can find, and meanwhile my dogs are desperate to go out and play and literally hurling themselves at the back door and shrieking. And people wonder why I can't get anywhere on time.