Standards Signifcantly Lowered

Sometimes I feel like I accomplish NOTHING throughout the day....paint still peeling off ceiling in bedrooms and bathroom, paint still chipping of baseboards, clothes still in need of sorting, etc. etc.  It seems as if just muddling through the day to day dinner, laundry and in general care for the children should provide me with some sort of satisfaction, but for some reason my inner checklist needs other large ticket items checked off as completed.

I try to trick myself to get this feeling of completion of a major project by acknowledging the completion of the mundane.....dishes emptied from dishwasher and put away - CHECK, lunch prepared, served and cleaned up after - CHECK, baby kept from leaping off of ottoman - CHECK.  Doesn't always work.

Today I celebrate what may seem to some to be a small feat, yet it has been four months in the works.  All the parts of space shuttle, rocket, launcher, and boosters are assembled together and sitting on the dresser.  They are reunited - CHECK. 

Prepare for blast off....baby is crying.