No school today (thanks, Presidents Washington and Lincoln!), so you know what that means…chore time! Days off like this come so infrequently that they often devolve into catch-up-on-errands free-for-alls. You know, compulsive counter wiping, or cooking, or laundrygasms. That sort of thing.

Want to know a dirty secret? We kinda likes it, Precious. mimi rolls out of the house at 6:45 every day to get to work, so having a day where I can sleep in until about 7 am feels slightly naughty. That’s probably why I spend the rest of the day in a housework frenzy.

Today was not much different. Accomplished: nearly all the laundry, grocery shopping and a Target run, recycling out, locating horizontal surfaces under all that paper, packing school bags for tomorrow, and even making dessert (this never happens on a school day)–Key Lime pie with homemade Nilla Wafer crust, if you must know.

On days like this, I honestly think I can do it all…and then I spot the bulging school bag of papers I’ve been ignoring while all this domestic bliss has been going on. Alas, back on the grind in the morning. June Cleaver called, and she wants her shirtwaist and pearls back.