possibly do some done listing...

cuddled Neil and Claira, sung Claira songs, fed her breakfast, loaded and put through dishwasher, tidied front entrance, answered 3 emails,

read half a dozen plurks, welcomed older girls to the land-of-the-wakeful, and pondered what to do next.

read and responded to a few plurks.

gone over the notes one of her beta readers just sent her.

found them mostly useless.

got the older girls dressed, gathered the dirty laundry, answered one email, and caught up on facebook.

got her inbox down to 17!

spent too much time sitting down!

carried three loads of laundry to the basement.

tidied Claira's room and the main floor bathroom and put away 3 doz toys.

made plans to go to a friend's house this afternoon and only hopes the kids cooperate.

answered two difficult emails.

caught up on Twitter.

cleared the table, done the breakfast dishes, unpacked two bags, and got the girls to put away 4 doz toys.

fed the girls their morning snack.

got her inbox down to 12!

tidied Claira's room, again, and vacuumed it.

Two bags unpacked. Much miscellany sorted through.

Inbox to 7.

fed the girls, put several dozen things away, put Claira down for a nap, answered 2 emails, and cleaned out downloads folder on laptop.

watched North & South, changed the laundry over, tidied the rec room, got properly dressed, folded four loads of laundry, and put 1 away.

the whole movie of North and South?

Three of the four episodes.

made dinner, cleared the table, cleaned up the girls' bedroom and vacuumed it, put girls to bed, and tidied the living room.

tidied the living room, put the girls back to bed , and tidied the bathroom.

she is fighting a losing battle against entropy today . . .

you can't beat the 2nd law of Thermodynamics...

that's the one that says the entropy of a closed system can only stay the same or increase.

Ah. I've actually read that before. And it's most certainly the case at my house!

that Kymburlee has done an admirable job, 2nh Law of Thermodynamics notwithstanding.

to make an even better fist of it today. Especially as my parents arrive at 9pm.