>To do list for today:

• Clean bunny litter boxes
• Return overdue book on tape to the library
• Pay fine on overdue book on tape (cringe)
• Buy bunny food and bread
• Sign and mail adjudicator contracts for 2008 music festivals
• Update family prescriptions
• Take Amigo to doctor to look at potential ear infection
• Pick up prescription for ear infection (When Amigo says his ear hurts, he’s usually infected)
• Fill car with gas for La Petite’s trip to job interview at her university
• Prepare car for possible winter emergency in case back roads are bad on the way to university
• Remind La Petite to pack food, since her apartment cupboards are bare
• Make sure all errands are done before La Petite leaves us temporarily without wheels
• Laundry, including La Petite’s extra baskets
• Pack boxes for thrift store pick-up tomorrow
• Clean kitchen (again)
• Fill refrigerator with fruit from music dept. fundraiser
• Write thank you notes for student gifts (smile; fourth graders are still cute)
• Grind coffee beans (oh, such a sacrifice: two Christmas gifts inlcuded whole bean coffee)
• Nibble on Christmas cookies
• Read A Wrinkle in Time with Amigo (he got the Braille edition for Christmas)
• Snuggle up on the couch and watch CNN or the Weather Channel
• Catch up on Time Magazines and sip coffee or hot cocoa

Come to think of it, maybe the livin’ isn’t so hard after all. Any to-do list that includes reading, nibbling on cookies and sipping coffee can’t be all bad.