KidMontauk

All the kids are back in school! If you live in a rural area then that means school buses. With school buses comes waiting for the bus. These days here in Montauk we are lucky enough to have the bus stop at our drive way! It is quite luxurious really. No trudging to some corner to wait in the sun, rain, snow, gail force winds for the bus. One must only be at the end of the drive way at 7:30AM. I am not sending my 6 year old to the side of the road alone. So with that said, she is there all dressed, brushed, fed, bag packed and waiting for me to escort her. I, however, am still in my jammies. So do I get “dressed” or do I suck it up and go out in my jammies, coffee in hand?
We get up at 6:30Am to ensure child #1 is ready for her bus. Child #2 is still a drop off at 9Am so I have some time between kids. Here in lies a huge dilemma for my fashionista self. How can I let the world see me in my jammies? I am not the shiny leopard robe and marabu slipper type more like Gap what ever is soft type. So I certainly look a bit rumpled, at best, at first light. When I first got to experience this school bus stuff a year ago it really threw me for a loop. I tried to get myself dressed first then deal with the kids. Just like “If the oxygen mask falls down put yours on first then help your kids”. I need oxygen to help me through this whirl wind of every morning. Oh and intravenous coffee drip would also be good.
After a few mornings of waiting outside while shoving breakfast in the child there at the end of the drive way so we would not miss the bus I realized this was not working. The poor child was eating outside! At least we were all dressed?! So now maybe I need to wake up earlier to get dressed then worry about the kids? NO WAY! I need all the sleep I can get. I have decided that if I can sort of brush my hair and put a sweat shirt over the t-shirt and sweat pants I am passable.
Remember: No bunny slippers. Birkenstocks are much better. Sort of a shoe/slipper. Also please throw away all ripped, worn out, bleach spotted stuff. Try to have your sleep wear not be an embarrassment. These days the Gap has so much stuff on sale you can have clean new jammies for about $10. Adult looking jammies. Not college dorm flannel plaid or cup cake prints. NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, printed across your butt!!!! Leave that to the youngsters who should be calling attention to their butts.
Winter is much easier. You throw on a long coat pull on high Uggs and go out there. No one would ever know what is under all that. You can even pull this off in IGA. I do not recommend it though. It is not good to get too lazy with your appearance. You want the town to wonder how you look so good all the time.
-Peri

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