>Who needs an inbox and an outbox? I have to-do and ta-dah. Sing that last one: Ta-Dah! Here’s the set from mid-day Sunday: let’s see which side wins.

Accomplishments for the day so far

• made coffee
• cleaned kitchen
• ran dishwasher
• washed two loads of laundry
• dried four loads of laundry (including two that were washed last night, hung on drying racks overnight. Jeans and sweats work great that way)
• folded five loads of laundry (the socks and underwear were already out of the dryer last night. they don’t wrinkle, so I left them overnight)
• Read the Sunday newspaper (yes, even a working mama deserves a simple pleasure)
• Ate a grapefruit (it’s an investment in my health. Of course that goes on the list!)
• Are you ready for this? The major accomplishment for the morning:
• I took the ornaments off the tree and put them in storage.
  Diced veggies and thawed other ingredients to put a turkey soup in the crockpot.
• Made lunch for Husband and me and Amigo while La Petite slept in
• Cleared Christmas decor from the mantel and around the house, sorted it into “keep” and “donate” and “throw away,” stored the “keep” boxes.
• Replaced Christmas decorations with snowmen for January!
• Helped Amigo with his homework
• voted for the Packer in the Click for Cans contest
  

I think I need to sit down and take a break with some playoff football, a Diet Coke, and laptop time.

Yet To-do

• correct spelling tests (abbreviations)
• correct math tests (mid-chapter, multiplication and division)
• check penmanship papers
• add barley to soup, determine side dishes, prepare to serve supper

I must add this: Husband, noticing my progress in getting the ornaments down, took off the lights, stored them, and then dragged the tree outside. He put the tree stand in the basement and even (yes, honestly, he did) vacuumed all the pine needles and put the furniture back in its regular place. Isn’t he a gem?

Hmmm. I’m a pro at rationalization. But even without rationalizing my excuses for doing housework before schoolwork, this looks pretty darn good. No guilt: I’ve accomplished plenty, and the rest will get done, too.