Always have their favorite shirt-pants-socks-skirt washed for a zero-meltdown/tearfree morning.
Keep a hard book and pencil in the car for when they need to finish their homework on the way to school.
(You're taking them to school because they don't want to ride the bus anymore and you're not going to make them. Everyone is happier because of it. You see more morning sun and rainbows over the ocean this way.)
Answer the phone when the school calls to bring a change of clothes because there was a spill in the lunchroom. Get there right away and don't make a big deal about it. Hide the spare underwear inside the pants so that nobody sees.
Bring a snack in the car when you pick them up from school because one of them you know the one will be ravenous and about to flip his lid if he doesn't eat something the very second the bell rings (unless his friends are playing on the playground then here's my backpack smell ya later, mom.)
Take them to baseball practice-dance class-to the candy store on time/when you said you would.
Make their favorite dinners and promise to always make them even when they are all grown up. Remind them that they can always come home, even when we are all old and gray.
Cuddle and snuggle and snuggle some more. Sing them a song but only when the radio isn't on. Then Mom, please don't sing along.
Let them chase the tides and get the mail and blow out the candle.