Productive

[pruh-duhk-tiv]
–adjective
1. having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort. 

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• I mended 13 pairs of pants...90% of which had a giant hole in the RIGHT knee...both boys must kneel on that knee!  Along with multiple patches on mine and Ryan's pants.  I kept thinking Spring was just around the corner, so I could just whack the bottoms of the pants off!  Who need's patched pants?  Well, apparently WE do, because now Tanner has 5 pairs of pants, and the rest of us have a few more, too.  It's freezing outside, and only one pair of pants, the 14th pair, got demoted to shorts. 
• I finally finished editing the pictures of Kami and Garrett's Special Day.  You can check out a sneak preview of the 'second half' of those 2000+ pictures on that other blog of mine.  HERE.  I took WAY too many pictures, and she has over eighty to chose from...but I showcased my favorite on that other blog...like it says...it was fun while it lasted.  :)
• I washed, dried, folded and PUT AWAY 5 loads of laundry.  There's one left, but my legs ache like after a long day of skiing...and I think I'll go to bed.  It's just the towels, and Ryan knows by now that if there aren't any towels on the back of the bathroom door, they're in the dryer.  And he's smart enough to look BEFORE he jumps in the shower.  Poor guy.  Maybe his lazy wife could get around to getting it together one of these days, and actually hang the towels up when they're nice and fluffy and warm. 
• I've delivered ButterBraids from Tanner's swim team fundraiser, and stuffed my freezer with the ones to take to family next weekend.  I had to lock it, because it's so full, and I'm afraid to open it!  No joke.  We even made these cute little cards to attach to them... He wrote the "Thank You" and his name, along with the adorable fast fish, which I had him color after they were printed.

• I've vacuumed every room with carpet. Sounds like a lot, but there's only three rooms with carpet in this place...still, it was a chore.  Me and da' boys picked up each room BEFORE entering with the vacuum...it's a pretty good system.
• I've done my dishes.
• I've bathed my kids.
• I've swept my floor.
• I've had my hot chocolate, along with a banana...because everything else sweet was eaten earlier in the day.  Like these DELICIOUS Lemon Cream Bars, made from REAL LEMONS...not the juice in the green bottle.  I may or may not have single-handedly eaten the entire pan by myself. You really don't need to know what size the pan was, either.  So don't ask. 
• I'm going to bed, and will probably be asleep before Ryan gets home at 1 am...unless I decide to read, which will put me to sleep, anyways.

It's been a full day.  I'm liking this 'unplugged' bit.  It's utterly refreshing and productive.  And exhausting.  In a good way.  

*smile*