First Day Fiasco!

Today was my kids' first day of school and yesterday we spent the evening preparing for it--talking about it so the kids wouldn't be scared, picking out what to wear, putting names on backpacks, gathering all supplies, filling their "get-to-know-me" bags, etc, etc...  Oh, yeah, we were ready.
Um, not.
So this morning everything goes very smoothly. The kids were excited, so they got out of bed right away and didn't take five hundred years to get dressed and eat breakfast. We were all in great...