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It’s my favorite time of the day.  It’s that time between the start of her day, where she quietly takes everything in, where she takes in a few moments of tv and nourishes her body from time to time when she decides to eat breakfast.  She’s just like her mama when it comes to breakfast.  I prefer to eat around 10 am and she’s the same.  Each day she’ll either get up herself and instantly go into the bathroom to greet daddy or stay in bed and sleep a little more.  At 7 am though it’s time to get up.  I’ll start her off with some milk (or juice if she happens to have a cold which has been happening a lot this winter season) and I’ll start on her lunch.  She’s a picky eater, my sweet Lillian.  She’s never had a hot meal at school for this very reason.  Of the few things that she does eat, I try to buy organically as much as possible.  Fifteen minutes later we’ll start to get her dressed.  This child has entirely way too many clothes so thankfully it doesn’t take too long to decide what to put her in.  Her hair is another story.  When I blowdry her hair the night before it’s so beautiful and straight (since all of her curls are gone ( ) and by the time she wakes up in the morning it’s a hot mess.  Adding to the messiness that is known as her hair is the fact that we’re trying to grow out her bangs since she cut them herself last year so they’re constantly in her face even after I’ve pinned them back.  And lets not forget how thick her hair is (yet again another trait from mama.)

By 7:45am it’s time to get into the car and head to school.  I used to drop her off and put her into line and just let her go but once the snow started falling I’ve been staying with her to help her unpack.  Maybe it’s time to go back to that since she tends to not focus once she gets into the classroom to unpack…..the mama in me wants to stay with her though!  She rides the bus home each day mostly for her own enjoyment since I could most certainly pick her up each day.  I always check with her a couple of times a month to make sure that she wants to keep riding it since it takes about a half an hour to get home and we only live like two miles from the school, but she always says that she wants to keep riding.  From the moment she gets off the bus though, it’s non-stop talking.  This child CAN TALK YOUR EARS OFF!!!  You may not understand it, but she could care less!!  Having a converstion with my husband is nearly impossible since she always has a story or song to sing.  Maybe this is why I love the morning so much.  While I love listening to everything that she has to say, it’s the morning time (and sometimes the night if she’s super sleepy) that she loves to cuddle, give random hugs and just takes everything in.  I can only hope that one day that she’ll have someone else little to talk too in the morning, but at least I know that if she doesn’t, that she’ll have plenty to talk about when she gets home each day!