July 21, 2004
A short to-do list
Things I Should be Doing:1. Watching my children.
2. Working to make a dent on the mile-long list of projects I MUST get done before my parents arrive in September (it's not that they don't know I'm a slob; it's just that my conscience prevents me from subjecting them to evidence as such).
3. Eating a Weight Watchers-approved brunch that includes the four basic food groups.
4. Flitting around the house, a la Donna Reed, wearing a dress and heels and smiling vacuously while I pick up after my children and husband as though that's the entire reason God put me on this green earth.
Things I am Actually Doing:
1. Letting the cleaning lady's daughter watch my children. (Hey, she took both of them and disappeared into Madalyn's bedroom -- that constitutes volunteering, in my book)
2. Parking my sizeable butt in front of the computer.
3. Trying to decide whether to throw a couple Pop-Tarts in the toaster or jump in the car and run to McDonald's.
4. Sitting around the house, wearing workout clothes and no shoes and absentmindedly wondering how much longer I can put off doing laundry before we run out of clean underwear.
