My To-Do List

No pictures today - although if I had my camera handy, I could have taken some classic shots of Cole playing in a bucket of water in the front yard. Oh well - next time. I have taken quite a few in the house lately (mainly of Gray's two new top teeth), but none of them have come out. I'm fantasizing about a new lens, but it's silly to buy a lens for six year old camera when I could just get a SLR for the same price. Anyway - hopefully I'll get some good ones tomorrow.

Back to my list.....
You would think after posting photos of the condition of my house this week, I would have done something domestic around here. But yesterday came and went with no real change in my behavior. So last night before bed, I decided to motivate myself in a way close to my heart. With snarkiness and sarcasm. I wrote out a to-do list for myself that went something like this:

AMY - FRIDAY (no TV/no computer!/turn on the radio)

*empty the dishwasher by 9am. Then load it again. And start it. (Seriously, how hard it that?)

*all that laundry on the table? Fold it. Then put it away.

*wash those disgusting bathmats

*wash some clothes. Luke has no underwear and you have nothing to wear to the birthday party on saturday.

*clean your bathroom. it's gross.

*change the boys' sheets. reid at least deserves to come home to a clean bed.

And a few more items. It was a long list. And wouldn't you know it? I actually was productive today. It helped that Cole and Luke played at Grand Pinks for over an hour, but by then I had started out on the right foot. Brad says I should write a nasty note to myself every night. I think I'll save this little trick for special circumstances, though. Seriously, it worked really well.

OK - I found some photos of the boys from last month that I should share.

This was actually in June. Luke would spin the arrow on the game (the old school one where you pull the lever and the arrow spins and then makes the animal sound), and Reid would draw that animal as fast as he could. They played nicely like this (all three of them) for a record-breaking seven minutes!

Gray, obviously in his bed, standing under the mobile that has a big warning on it that probably says you should take the mobile down when your baby starts standing up.

Reid actually posing for a photo, and Cole sitting in a blueberry box from Costco. I did not buy that many blueberries.