Take My To Do List and Let It Be
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I look around the kitchen at the dishes piled in the sink. Remnants of the day’s meals littering every possible surface. From my place by the sink I see the baskets of laundry in various stages of “clean”, growing ever larger by the second it seems.
I sigh and make my way toward the desk, the day hanging over me like a saturated cloud ready to burst at any second. I sit down and pull out my to-do list. Surely I can cross something off.
But, no. Not a single one of my carefully listed and prioritized “to-dos” can be awarded to today.
With a heavy heart I erase today’s date and put in tomorrow’s. At least my list is ready, I think, trying to find a silver lining.
As I get ready for bed the heaviness hanging over me increases.
What exactly do I do all day?
Why can’t I get these things done?
They are important things!
Why do other wives/moms/caregivers succeed and I can’t?
**queue dreamy harp music**
Remembering yesterday
And so it begins
- Breakfast.
- Juice.
- Coffee.
- Change clothes.
- Feed the baby.
- Make beds.
- Break up a squabble.
- Move the laundry.
- Feed the baby.
- Empty the dishwasher.
- Answer the phone.
- Defrost dinner.
- Clean spilled juice.
- Find the reading glasses.
- Feed the baby.
- Break up another tiff
It’s only 10am??, I think as I reheat my cup of coffee for the fourth time.
I look longingly at my to-do list as I’m called away yet again by life. I had such high hopes for today. Today was going to be the day I conquered my list. Or at least made a dent in one or two tasks.
You did what was needed.
No, it wasn’t anything I wrote out on my to-do list, but I accomplished a lot. I kept my family healthy, happy, fed, clothed, and united. My kids had a day full of learning and play. My MIL spent more time with us than in her room alone. They all went to bed feeling tired and loved. And yes, I was too tired to do the dishes before bed but does it really matter?
It will still be there tomorrow
