Let's review, shall we?
++ Purge/organize girls' room
++ Revise synopsis
++ Scrub floors & walls
++ Finish returning defective Xmas gifts.
++ Figure out mail-order pharmacy forms; reorder asthma meds; sell plasma to afford meds. (I hate these people even more than George Bush and Dick Cheney. Haaaaate.)
++ Install new shade in Josie's room
++ Photograph Ellie's alphabet project; recycle
++ Put away play food choking hazards
++ Disassemble cradle; store
++ Get handyman quotes
++ Test new felting projects for Discovery Day; order supplies
++ Scan paperwork; recycle (A Sisyphean task if ever there was one, but yes.)
++ Swap out Josie's clothes for 6-12 month size
++ Burley & bike tuneup
++ Find a helmet for Josie's teeny-tiny nugget (The doctor says not until she's a year old.)
++ Clean out girls' paperwork bins & bulletin boards
++ Finish kite project
++ Purge bedroom shelves
++ Finish Ellie's puppet theater
++ Plan garden; order seeds/transplants
++ Purge old videos/DVDs
11.5 out of 21, which is a hair over 50%. In truth, I'm surprised I got so much done, especially with as many non-list activities as we crammed in: playdates, lunch dates, birthday parties, shopping trips...so I'm less frustrated than I would have expected. Now we can slip back into something approximating our regular schedule. We're winding down the school year and planning for the summer, which seems impossible given the several inches of snow that fell tonight.
So often, I feel like we are living our lives in the future. We sign the girls up for activities three or four months before they happen, we schedule appointments six months ahead of time, we plan for the next year and don't appreciate the moments that are happening to us right now. Spending time with the girls, even if it was just wandering around a bookstore or eating doughnuts, was just as important as any item on the list.
