A Very Short To-Do List

When I woke up this morning (actually, yesterday morning, since it's after midnight now), I had one goal to accomplish.  ONE goal.  I never have just one goal.  I always have a to-do list longer than I could possibly accomplish, and I always OVERestimate how much I can accomplish and UNDERestimate how long it will take me!  But in this case, I narrowed my focus to one task:  washing dishes.

You see, all this week I've felt like I've been playing catch-up since our trip last weekend to the homeschool convention--playing catch-up, but never actually being caught up.  Not on laundry, not on housecleaning, not on organizing, not on garden work (I have broccoli and peas waiting in my refrigerator for me to prepare for freezing), and not on dishes.  My dirty-dish problem was compounded by the fact that our dishwasher continues to be agonizingly unreliable, and I get so frustrated when I open the door at the end of the cycle and find dishes that I thought were going to be clean and they're not.  Those washed-but-not-clean dishes contributed to my huge pile that needed washing by hand until the whole kitchen threatened to be overtaken by nothing but dirty dishes.  And so, I was determined that, in one area, I would achieve my goal.

I did.

I know I could have asked my mom to help me and she would have dropped everything to do so; but since she and my dad are leaving on a weekend trip, I didn't want to add to her workload.   It's a good thing I'm a night person.  It's a good thing I really don't mind staying up until after midnight.  It's a good thing the night air is so pleasant as it flows in the open windows by the sink.  It's a good thing I have screens on the windows so that all the moths and other insects attracted to the light can't come in.  It's a good thing I'm finally DONE!  :)

The only thing that bugs me about all of this is that I feel like so much truly important stuff is flowing through my fingers and not being captured by me.  I still want to write about the homeschool convention, and some other homeschooling thoughts, and about Josiah's birthday, and how family traditions get started, and the women of Genesis, and so many other topics that are deeper and more significant than the fact that I got all my dishes washed!  Oh well, such is life, and the dishes get dirty far more often than birthdays get celebrated and conventions get attended.  So once in a while, I guess it's OK to mention dishes on my blog.  ;-)

Maybe tomorrow I'll have time to write about something more important.  Live ever in hope, right?  :)