Friday Questions and Realizations?

Okay, someone dear lord help me with the title of this post! I want to make it a weekly thing if possible and need a better title- something with a ring to it. The posts will be things that I have questions to or things that I have realized during the week. I am actually laughing out loud right now...because I was just so damn creative with the title wasn't I? So anyway here goes:

Number 1: What do you think about- Tip Jars at Dunkin Donuts and other various service establishments? Now, I find this to be very weird. I never did a job and got paid for it full salary and then also asked for a tip. Waitressing is a different story. I think leaving a tip cup out at a place like this is like me leaving a tip jar outside my door and you having to tip if you come over for dinner or have a playdate...or...me leaving a tip jar outside my classroom. What do you think?

Number 2: How DO they do it? Every Wednesday I drop of Brooke to preschool. She has to be there at 9:45. Lets just say today is the first day I got her there on time lol. Now we are not totally late...only 4-8 minutes depending on how long we(she) sit on the potty. So today I took a shower at night instead of the am and had everyone ready even after an "orange day" photo shoot, which you will see in a minute. Shower in the pm and other pointers like that are the tips I think I need from moms of two that have perfected the morning routine. So if anyone knows someone pass this blogsite on! So...back to the point lol... When I arrived at the school I see some moms that each and every time they have themselves all dressed nice (nice=no sweatpants), their hair done, their kids all ready and the infants they are holding all done up too. I'm going to speculate that their houses are not a mess and they don't have to run home, in the two short hours the kids are there, to make lunch for the next place you are going. So my questions is how do they do it...? Along with my realization that they must go to bed earlier and probably wake much earlier than I do to. lol

Number 3: I am typically the frugal mom but the other day I splurged and bought the kids matching Halloween pumpkin shirts. Brooke had to wear an orange shirt to school today so this is what she wore. Well. Brooke thought this was the BEST thing since realizing she can take Barbies clothes off (that sounds weird but you know what I mean). She woke this morning saying "Mom, hurry we have to put our pumpkin shirts on-Go get Lukey Dukey." So my realization- spendthe extra twenty on the pumpkin shirt, the matching x-mas pajamas and so on...it makes them happy, which makes you happy.