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Wow! My head starts spinning when I sit down and actually tick thru all of the items I have to think about on a daily basis. It seems that a parent's day never really ends. All the days and nights just run together into one endless list of chores. As the mommy in our household my daily tasks include a litany of items. Here's a peek:
· Checking that our pantry is well stocked for every being in our house which includes me, Dear Husband, Darling 1, Darling 2, 2 Giant Dogs, 3 Small, but always quite hungry at the busiest moment of my day, Cats
· Counting to see if Darling 1 has enough clean underwear for the day (still in the “Oops, I forgot to stop playing and run to the bathroom with enough time to actually pull my pants down” stage)
· Paying bills
· Returning phone calls with two howling boys in the background
· Checking dog and cat water bowls
· Refilling juice/water/milk cups about a million times a day
· Returning emails
· Monitoring work deadlines and my progress towards those ever-approaching deadlines
· Finding time to actually do the work
· Removing booby traps set across the living room floor, otherwise known as blocks, small vehicles, deceivingly gentle looking plastic giraffe with razor sharp ears (trust me on this one – the bottom of my foot bears testimony to what I say), small bouncy balls and a million other objects that get scattered across the floor and become a death trap to a mommy carrying a very full laundry basket or a screaming, thrashing, fit-throwing toddler
· Starting laundry in the washer, trying to remember to go down and put said load into dryer when washer stops, starting another load, emptying dryer load into awaiting basket that is already filled with two clean loads waiting to be folded at some point in the future and then starting that process over (about a
