The To-Do List are Flowing

I finally did it. I forgot Laela’s show and tell. Its such a small thing, but she just loves show and tell, and was sick the last time it was her turn. I cried when I discovered I had forgotten it. There are just too many things swirling in my head and I HATE that I missed one.

I love a good list, yet I’m actually been avoiding making one this season, because most of it just feels too big and daunting. Those of you who have been around me anytime recently know that really, anything extra is just too much. “Extra” is hard right now. Yet, “extra” still needs doing. So I bit the bullet and made a big, scary list of all thats left to do before Christmas comes.

This week was going to be fairly wide open, but as things tend to happen, it is actively filling, and things are getting squished tightly between other things, and I just know something is going to get skipped. So, rather than resting my exhausted body during the kids’ naptime, I wrapped presents. I LOVE wrapping presents, truly, but wrapping them upstairs in our room was not ideal. It would’ve been better had I vacuumed first, lol! If you haven’t seen it in a while, Brady has a HUGE beard now. Its magnificent, don’t get me wrong, but it sheds these disgusting 6″ pube-like hairs all over the house, and you would not believe how many I taped to presents. It was very tedious removing the tape and removing the hair and then resticking the less-than-sticky tape. This probably is far too much information about the state of our house, but what can you do? I suppose I could just not share it on the internet… Anyway, I wrapped for an hour or two this afternoon, and then went to get Dekker from school, brought him home, went to pick up some fundraiser stuff, and then came back and kept wrapping. I’m not quite done, as some stuff is big and weird and I don’t know how to wrap it, I haven’t put tags on the teacher gifts yet, some things are still coming in the mail, and some things I’m just gun shy about actually wrapping and putting under the tree, like the little stuffed toy that we bought our little bambino. I’m scared for that to all go bad again. Ugh.

I wrapped until my back hurt, so I’m taking a break blogging in my bed. I’ll admit, I’m a bit peeved that I wrapped SO MUCH today and still can’t take it off my list. Merp merp. But its getting there.

I still have to mail some stuff out, crochet a gift, bake at least for the preschool Christmas thing but hopefully for our family as well, finish wrapping gifts, wash bedding, buy another gift or two, clean off the island, clean bathrooms, type up minutes from a meeting, install coat hooks in the entrance, aaaand a few other things. I know its all doable, and the things that could wait just should. But right now it just all feels big. BUT! I wrapped LOTS of gifts today, the island is at least a bit better, and a drawer in that kitchen that was overflowing with a mess is no longer that way, thanks to Brady. I have a scheduling debacle clarified and solved, and best of all, I made a good list that is helping me not forget anything important.

I feel more together than I did this morning, so I’m calling it a win. Tonight we have a music practice for Sundays worship service, and then tomorrow, Brady might be working, or he might not. Thats probably my least favorite part of his job 😉 Occasionally, his schedule is like this and it makes me a little crazy. But either way, I have nothing up beyond taking Dekker to and from school, so no excuses not to get things done!!!

How are your to-do lists looking? Am I the only one left scrambling?? Say it ain’t so!