To-Do who??? Not the Honey Melon!

I love to-do lists.  I do.  I love taking pen to paper and then methodically spewing out what needs to be accomplished.  There are few feelings better than crossing stuff out once accomplished and putting it in your rearview mirror. And yet, to make a to-do list of any note, one has to remember what needs to be done.  For me, since having my child, my memory is shot.  (I know studies say that mommy brain isn't true... but I can't remember anything as of late or anything for any length of time.)

It's got to be due to the amazing amount of focus and attention a baby requires.  Yes, she is asleep for about 16 hours total each day, but those  remaining hours are intense.  To wit: "Bring me here!" "Change me...." "Feed me!" "Hold me!"  "Hold me." "Hold me." "Hold me more." "Feed me." "Ahhhhhhhh." "I must take your finger and chew on it for the next 4 minutes." "The croaking frog has rolled away from me and I NEED IT now."*

When I have a moment of quiet, I first sit dazedly and wonder what it was that was so pressing just 30 minutes ago.  Then I reach for the old stand-by: Facebook.  Because nothing buoys me more than learning what you're making for dinner or how you felt about the Miss America contest. More often than not, I find my energy or ambition to do the things I need to do is low, low, low.  Maybe it's because I want to relish the down-time and simply relax, but feel constrained by the fact that she will wake up in less than an hour and that means I have to work fast to accomplish anything fun or on my to-do list.  (As a result I'm jumping here and there - swallowing a bite to eat, only glancing at a Times article IfeelasifImustreadorIllregretitatthenextcocktaiparty, trying to remember one of my many passwords or searching for a pair of skinny jeans.

If I was smart, I'd do the following:  do something fun for one nap, do some work during the next nap.
Maybe I should go back to my old habit and start to make a to-do list each night.  It would help me plan my day, I could see what needed to be accomplished, etc. And of course, it's license to get several fun new sets of to-do lists.  (Not those silly pads with "Honey Do" written at the top. Wants to be associated in any way with the actual Honeydew melon.  It's a bit meek, isn't it?

*My daughter doesn't speak - rather, she emits high-pitched screams, jolly squeals of delight, guffaws and general exclamations