OK, I admit I am one of the most unorganized people I know at home.  This school year I decided I was going to be different!  I was going to be super mom, and super wife!  Woo Hoo! ....NOT.  But one thing I have kind of stuck to is getting with the kids after they come home, going through their papers from school and seeing what needs attention, getting them to do their homework and then getting all the things needing to go back to school the next day in their bags so that when morning  comes tomorrow I am not scrambling to get it all together. We get all this done before they get to play around for the evening.  They grumble and groan, but they go along with it.  This has made a huge difference in our mornings:)  Try it, it works!  Fridays are flexible, but it must be done by Sunday evening so you dont have the scramble problem on Monday.