The List Maker

How will I honor the war-dead this Memorial weekend, you ask? Catching up on laundry for one. I mean no disrespect, mind you but I face my own war as each week comes to a close and the hampers overflow. I am certain that laundry, when left untouched, multiplies. It also increases exponentially as new humans are added to the household.

But laundry is only one of my many entries on my "What to do this weekend" list. I am an expert list maker. It may well be my greatest talent. I see each weekend as an opportunity for a new to do list... a fresh start at organizing my life. My loftiest ambitions for Saturday and Sunday are layed out for all to see on the kitchen counter pad of paper.

Also making the list are:

Clean out my closet
Clean out the spare bedroom
Clean out the garage
Clean out the sewing room

Notice a pattern here? All areas overflowing as much as the hampers. However, we can't live without clean clothes but we can live without the "sand art" kit that's burried in the back of the spare bedroom just behind the collection of hardened playdough and to the left of my wedding dress from 2005. I have yet to figure out what to do with it but don't worry it's on my list.

So tell me what's on your "to-do" list that never seems to get finished.