Do a load of laundry. Mail Christmas cards. Throw dinner into the Crock-Pot. Scrub the kitchen floor. Run out to purchase essential oils, packing tape, padded envelopes, ribbon, stamps, tuna sandwich. Put the clean dishes away. Update Weekend To-Do List. Purchase wedding gift for friends. Check email. Write to news contacts. Update events page and then invoice for freelance project. Stuff envelopes for other freelance project. Design a web banner for new product. Change laundry over to dryer. Call Animal Hospital about cat’s test results. Scrub leftover label-goo from baby food jars to reuse for sending out product samples. Call Hawaii about missing marriage license for name change purposes. Call doctor about my misplacing her receipts for insurance purposes. Stir Crock-Pot so sweet-and-sour pork doesn’t settle.

I accidentally woke Chloe up when I went in to check on her during her afternoon nap. I sat in the rocking chair and let her rest her head on my shoulder while I rocked and sang softly to help send her back to sleep. Instead, she began to flutter her lashes, tickling the soft spot on my neck just below my earlobe. When I giggled, she flung her head up and giggled back at me, touched her forehead to mine and softly cooed, “Maamaa…”

Fold the laundry. Write a food review. Sort portfolio. Make more scrub for new purchases. Design sample bottle labels. Read new information pertaining to learning how to sell stuff. Call sister about helping her retrieve her boyfriend’s Christmas present tomorrow (it’s large.) Write another batch of Christmas cards for various friends and family. Pack gift for next week’s Secret Santa installment for the Glick family. Put clean clothes away. Wash dishes from sugar scrub preparation. Affix new labels to jars and prepare orders to be shipped tomorrow. Vacuum week’s worth of stale Cheerios scattered in and around sofa. Plan something for dinner tomorrow night. Respond to halfway-read emails. Check bank account. Bathe squirmy, splashy baby and then squirmy, miserable cat.

It was a perfectly blissful day.