So you know how the school won’t let your kid go back to school the next day if they had a fever or threw up at school the day before? I’ve learned to embrace this rule. Here’s why: the result of the rule is that today I have 6 hours where 5 kids are at school and 1 kid is “resting” and I’m not ALLOWED to go to work. Genius. You might think I used this time productively.
You’d be wrong.
So, in a deliberate and fantastic act of procrastination, I have created a list of all the things I SHOULD have done today. Enjoy. I’m going back to Pinterest.
The Should-a List
What I should have done: Cleaned the bathroom and organized the medicine cabinet.
What I actually did: Carried the cleaning products to the bathroom, got distracted and sat on the bathroom floor painting my toenails.
What I should have done: started baking holiday cookies for the mailman, piano teacher, etc.
What I actually did: Make elf donuts based on a photo I found on Pinterest.
Oh no...what's wrong with my mother?
What I should have done: The dishes
What I actually did: Arrange the dirty dishes so they took up less space.
What I should have done: The Wii fit, or some sort of work out.
What I actually did: Hire a personal trainer that I may or may not actually meet up with next Tuesday. (Any encouraging text messages at 3:40 on Tuesday will be accepted.)
What I should have done: Vacuuming
What I actually did: Make 28 pretend snowglobes with my daughter and decide that the fake snow all over the dinning room floor was festive.
What I should have done: Organized my closet.
What I actually did: Make up new outfits on Polyvore (Oy! How the internet kills my productivity!) and then try to figure out where to buy all the cool scarves I loved.
What I should have done: Scrapbook the 10,000 photos of my own children that are sitting on my desk.
What I actually did: Take 151 photos of my friend’s baby in a bucket of Christmas ornaments, sleeping under the tree and playing with Christmas lights.
What I should have done: Planned meals for the week, including tonight
What I actually did: Googled 10 minute/3 ingredient meals. Then Googled Pizza Hut coupons. (That stinkin’ Internet again!)
What I should have done: Cleaned up my kids’ rooms.
What I actually did: Shut their doors.
What I should have done: Read an intellectual book or something that would further my career.
What I actually did: Read the latest issue of Cosmo that came automatically to my Nook, and then three chapters of Tina Fey’s Bossy Pants.
What I should have done: Corrected papers.
What I actually did: Left the papers at school yesterday when I flew out of there yesterday to pick up my sick kid.
What I should have done: Made homemade soup for my sick kid.
What I actually did: Make her soup out of a can. Then make her hot chocolate. From a packet. Pretty sure she didn’t notice.
What I should have done: Planned a cute outfit in which to greet my husband when he arrived home from a week-long business trip. (At least that's what I should have done according to the Pinterest list of "101 Things You Should Be Doing For Your Husband.")
What I actually did: throw on lip gloss, earrings and a bra when I heard his truck pull into the driveway.
What I should have done: Spent time figuring out why my living room is so much colder than the rest of my house.
What I actually did: Snuggle under a blanket with my “sick” kid.
What I should have done: Update my address book so that I won’t get so many returned Christmas Cards next year.
What I actually did: Spend an hour on facebook chatting and stalking relatives and friends before remembering to actually message them asking for their addresses.
What I should have done: Get the heck off of the computer.
What I actually did: Write this story. While sipping hot chocolate (from a packet). Under a blanket in the living room with my “sick kid.” In my sweatpants. With undone dishes and unvacuumed floors. While enjoying elf donuts.
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and details,ring them for advice ,tell them I told you to ring
Posted by: michaelnalsim | 06/27/2012 at 09:19 AM
That is very cute, I like your style!
When he grows up, it'll be a picture he would treasure.
Posted by: kids shorts | 01/01/2012 at 08:52 PM
Very Cute! I think I have the same list of "to do's," but it's more fun to enjoy the simple things in life. All of the rest can wait! :)
Posted by: backcountrybelle | 12/27/2011 at 08:52 PM
I loved reading this posting. Obviously you got plenty of things done...maybe just not the things you should have done...but who is in charge of the "should haves" in your life? Sounds like you did ALL of the important things.
Posted by: Christine Sieben | 12/27/2011 at 12:54 PM
What you should have done: spend quality time with your sick kid.
What you actually did: spend quality time with your sick kid.
...and write a cute blog post.
Posted by: SLB | 12/12/2011 at 08:44 PM