6:45

That's what time I have to leave the house in the morning. With all four children. Why? To go to the dentist of course!

The children go to an extremely busy pediatric dentist. This is the pediatric dentist to the "stars", so to speak, in Phoenix. We've gone there for 14 years, since the teenager was 2 years old. We started there because the office is right upstairs from where my mom's office used to be. By the time she moved, we had been there for 8 years or so and it seemed silly to move. Did I mention the half hour drive to get there? But, the orthodontist is in the same office! And, we get an ENTIRE appointment time to ourselves since all four kids go at once! But, I have to make the appointment two months or more in advance. So we take the first one of the day. Which seems fine until the night before the appointment when I remember that we need to leave at the time the kids normally get up!