I am up late buzzing on coffee. Again. I swear we need to buy decaf! What have I don't with all this awakeness that is productive? I hung up a shower curtain and I sorted some of my music into folders. Not even worth mentioning, huh?

The truth is that I started tons of projects today. I have noticed I am really bad about that. I have the attention span of a two year old when it comes to these tasks I keep taking on. Or maybe I just juggle so much that I have to work at each project in short random spurts in order to have even had the satisfaction of starting them to begin with.

For example...and you know you are dying to know what it is I do all day:

1. Today, I started weeding through the kids clothes for donation. Yes, for the zillionth time this month. Now you can actually look through their closet and see the outfits instead of one big crammed together mess of material, half of which hasn't been worn in the last year.


2. I stuffed and addressed several Christmas cards with the intention of mailing them today. I haven't.


3. I pulled out my entire MK inventory to get ready to fill out the forms and ship it back to the company. I intended on sorting through it and catagorizing it so that it would take less time for me to fill out the forms and pack it. It is still sitting the same way I got it out.


4. I am all ready to wrap presents but haven't found the time to hide away and do it.


5. I organized and filed a lot of Logan's homeschooling stuff, but still have a few days worth of bookwork to back log into the database.

I did all of this while:

1. repeatedly unloading and loading the dishwasher


2. keping the girls from killing each other while, fighting over who's turn it was on the computer, breaking several pieces of the tea party dishes, fighting over tub toys, and then trying to "help me" with the...


3. glitter glue I was using to apply their names neatly to their new stockings


4. fed,cleaned, and clothed them seemingly several times


5. helped Logan with his assignments, which includes reminding him several times that the details he is reciting to me of Harry Potter aren't in his Math workbook


6. rescheduled appointments for next week that are now conflicting and will need to be rescheduled again


7. kept Mt. Bigasspileoflaundry going even though it doesn't seem to have gotten any smaller


8. and swept with both the broom and the vacuum several hundred times

That was a pretty typical day. Not everything was included. I think there were about twenty more things going on, I just couldn't think of them all. In fact, that doesn't even cover the routine drama that takes place after Mr. Monkey comes home. For instance, our trip this evening to a restaurant where Hope and Savannah decided to throw fits upon sitting down at the table and we exited immediately to come home moody and hungry and have spaghetti instead (which prompts another round of dishes, sweeping, and bathing for all).

Exciting life, isn't it?

Posted by gwendolyn on December 14, 2001 at 01:57 AM