First there's my normally gorgeous, cuddly DS(8) who has to be told 17 times to get dressed then when I finally raise my voice looks at me with his big brown eyes and says 'but I didn't know'! He's been up since 7 and somehow by a quarter to 8 has still done nothing. He then has 20 minutes to get dressed, do his teeth, make his bed & eat breakfast and somehow despite having been up for ages by 8:10 we are all literally shouting and hysterical trying to get out the door to catch the school bus. And every time this happens I tell him that from now on he should get dressed as soon as he gets up instead of faffing around for 45 minutes doing nothing. And he nods and agrees adn then promptly forgets.
Meanwhile DD(10) who at least manages to get herself dressed without comment finds new and creative ways to pick a fight with me 3 mornings out of 5. This morning I hear her standing outside DS' bedroom door (I'm just next door) asking to come in. He says no, she says 'but I"m stronger than you i can jsut open the door'. There's lots of knocking and banging which goes on for several minutes until i tell her to just go away and leave him alone. She then looks me in the eyes adn says 'I wasn't even trying to go in his room'!!!!! 
Then she acts all afronted and innocent when I get cross with her as if she can't possibly imagine what she's done wrong and it's all my fault.
Seriously, I can not stand this. I breath a sigh of relief when they finally get on the school bus and am serisouly shocked at myself at how pleased I am to see the back of them for a few hours.
