13 things I have done today
- Fought with Keira
- Fought with Riley
- Laid out two very reasonable uniform options for Keira to choose from
- Protested at her rejection of both of these
- Gone into a bathroom, shut the door, and sworn profusely
- The first school drop off
- Reminded Riley five times he’s not allowed to play Monopoly today because he did not eat his dinner last night
- Reminded Riley what I served for dinner last night
- Reminded Riley I am not lying
- Begged Riley to eat some lunch
- Reminded him that milk did not constitute my idea of lunch
- High-fived myself when he ate a sandwich
- A second school drop off
11 things I should be doing
- Sweeping
- Mopping
- Reading the agenda for next week’s preschool committee meeting
- Be investigating what I said I would in advance of said meeting
- Hanging out washing (damn, I forgot about that…)
- Ironing
- Washing up
- Thinking about what to cook for dinner
- Changing the kitty litter
- Have a peek about for said cat – she hasn’t surfaced in hours
- Investigate a mysterious hole that has appeared in our vegetable garden and I suspect may be housing critters of some kind (oh. the. horror.)
4 things I want to do
- Finish writing two articles
- Start research for another
- Chart up some deadlines for submissions so I know I’m on track
- Investigate The Text Prize guidelines
Inspired by one of my earliest, and most popular, miscmum posts ‘Quieting the monsters… or how to feed your children‘
