Back to school

Well, Annie and Hallie are back to school (2nd grade)and I was looking forward to being home all day,sleeping till noon, but now Janet has started traveling out of town for her job, leaving me to get the kids ready for school. I always ask if they would like to sleep an extra 5 minutes and, of course, they nod yes and then I go back to bed for 15 minutes. (sometimes it's 30 minutes and then we're running to the bus stop with their shoes untied and that rubber band thing losing it's grip on their pony-tails and falling off and then I have to use my fingers as a comb.)
Janet and I are so opposite in that she is a process person and I am a result person. ( well, she looks for results thru the process and I don't like to get muddled down in details.) If there was a fire in a building she would not panic and calmly walk down the stairs in an orderly fashion. I would slide down the bannister. So with geeting (I meant getting, but sometimes my mexican accent comes out) the kids ready for school, I will lift them out of bed and carry them to the couch, with a pillow and blanket. I will let them eat breakfast on the couch and sometimes they do spill food. (Cleaning tip: Stains on the couch can easily be hid by turning the cushion over) And, I let them pick out the clothes they want to wear. Janet sometimes complains about what I let them wear to school, but I say "If the clothes fit, you must acquit"( though sometimes the pants are 3 inches above the ankles) So, that means I get them to school with no drama.
Janet gets the kids up like a marine drill sargeant on steroids. "You have 5 minutes to get up, get dressed and be at the table to eat breakfast. 5 minutes are up. Drop and give me 20." Then she puts the girls hair up with that rubber band thing and I can only do it 3 times before my finger gets trapped and starts to turn blue, but she twists those things around about 30 times untils the hair strands are turning blue.
I work from home (I still find it hard to believe this is a real job) and am able to be here when the school bus arrives. We then start on home work. Now, I repeated 2nd grade so you would think that I would twice as smart at 2nd grade math but, they are constantly telling me that I'm doing it wrong. (then why do you need my help) Then I have to listen to them read for 15 minutes.(which in adult time is 2 hours) "The (sound it out) bu...bu...bu... (sound it out) oh...oh...oh....(sound it out) ee...ee...ee... boy said"( haven't figured out how to sound that out)