Ambition and Standards

This is going to immediately sound wrong, but I think, on some level, when it comes to what I can and can not get done, I need to lower my standards. I know. There are other levels in which I need to up some levels. But today, I'm talking about every other Tuesday.

Every other Tuesday, my dear, dear mother takes my 3 little ones and keeps them for the day and overnight. I make a list and I plan to conquer the known world on these days and end up throwing up my hands and wondering why in the world I can never get everything accomplished.

My list for yesterday included: bi-weekly grocery shopping at 2 stores, picking up Red Box movies, so I could use my coupon codes, stopping by the Habitat Re-Store, picking up A's registration, so I could go to the County Clerk's office and pay our registration renewals, having lunch with A, making copies, going to the bank and library, doing 5 loads of laundry and the dishes, cleaning the kitchen, baking a cake, putting together the new bed, taking pictures for some Craig's list items, refilling prescriptions, and making dinner.

Yeah, I only got to about half of that. I try to go from light walker the other 13 days of those 2 weeks to full-fledged marathon runner on that one day. Impossible. The plan? Practice. Pacing and setting the bar a tad lower.