Playing Catch-up

We are home from our holiday. Sad it’s over and had a lovely time, as always, but glad to be home. I think that’s always the way.

And now, I am sitting and trying to plan how to get caught up on a bunch of stuff. Why is it, when you go on holiday, there’s always so much stuff to do when you get back? Even when you had cleaned before you left, so you would be able to come home to a nice clean house?

There’s so much to do, sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. So I am sitting down to plan, to make lists.

When we got home from Ethiopia, it took months — YES, MONTHS — to get our suitcases unpacked and put away. MONTHS. Granted, there was a lot of stuff going on, what with a new little person living here, and me being sick as a sick thing that is really sick, and the endless tired that comes with infant-induced sleep deprivation. But we swore we would never let it take that long to get ourselves re-settled again.

Then we had vacations last spring and summer, and it took for-freaking-ever to get the laundry done and the suitcases put away again.

Oh well. At least it wasn’t months.

So one of the things on our to-do list is to get the suitcases emptied and stuff put away and the laundry done as soon as possible. That will be a task with Busy Toddler Helper shadowing me all day, but maybe we can get some stuff done. And then we have to go get a few groceries, because while we were gone all our milk went off, and we have a mostly-empty fridge. I also have to think about this week’s meals, so it will be a bigger shop than we would probably like. And then there’s some cleaning to be done. Well, there’s a LOT of cleaning to be done, but that’s a long-standing project from before we left and it’s unlikely we’ll make much of a dent in it just now, but we’ll see.

There’s some life stuff to get done, too. I have photos to organize and transfer and post, to catch up on the last few days. Also, I was not great on blogging, but I opted to relax on holiday and so I have to catch up on what I missed.

After that, everyday life stuff begins. We’re on day 35 of our 100 Day Challenge, so there’s exercising to do. I am also part of a 30 Day Yoga Challenge, so I have to do a bit of yoga as well. I have to look through our bills and finances and see what’s what, and as well we have to get some financial papers organized and sent off to our financial advisor, who we met with while on vacation.

Lists are DEFINITELY in order. LOTS OF LISTS.

But on top of all this, do you know what my HIGHEST priority is? The very first, absolute top of my list of things to do?

REMEMBER WHERE I PUT MY FREAKING NOTEPAD WHERE I USUALLY WRITE ALL MY LISTS.