Early morning Chinese Fire Drill

Since we now only have one car, we have had to make some adjustments. LeCount works Monday through Wednesday, and I watch kids Monday through Saturday. Well, we don't get out of the house much anymore because I can't fit all of the kids in the one car. On Mondays, I have either had just 1 child, plus my two- Or I may even just have my two. So, Mondays is the day to get out of the house and do something. Like last week, this morning we got up at 4:30 AM, and all pild into the car. We drove LeCount to work a few miles away, and then, came back home. We got home a little after 5:30AM, and I tried to get the girls to go back to sleep... 30 minutes later, they still weren't asleep. The phone rang at 6 AM... It was LeCount telling me that they are sending him home because there is not enough work (and he doesn't get paid for the day at all). So, back in the car we go- drive a few miles to pick up LeCount, and then, head back home. We were back home by 7AM, and I was EXHAUSTED!! That is not a fun Chinese fire drill!!!!
For those of you who don't know the phrase "Chinese fire drill", I have inserted the definition here:

Chinese fire drill
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A Chinese fire drill is a pejorative expression usually referring to a prank, or perhaps an expression of high spirits, that was popular in the United States during the 1960s.[1][2] It is performed when a car is stopped at a red traffic light, at which point all of the car's occupants get out, run around the car, and return to their own seats. Chinese fire drills are sometimes executed when one needs to get something from the trunk of a car. Occasionally, if one of the participants is late to get inside the car, the others might drive off without him/her. People have reported this phenomenon as early as the 1940s, so it is possible that the phrase was current at the time, but simply was not recorded.
Thus the expression "Chinese Fire Drill" is the act of a group of individuals accomplishing nothing.
The term is also used as a figure of speech to mean any large, ineffective, and chaotic exercise.