Pondering

The laundry is almost caught up from the busy weekend. The floors are semi-clean. The necessary items are ironed (read: WH's work clothes and our church clothes for this Sunday). Here are the other to-do items:

• put away laundry
• unload the dishwasher
  
• write the last two thank you notes from A's birthday
• edit and upload April/May pictures
• file paperwork
• re-organize toy bins
• dust
• clean master bath
• iron the rest of the clothes (laundry basket is overflowing)

I'm sure there are 10 more I could add, but these are the most pressing (in my mind, which is not necessarily what is most pressing in reality). But as a friend encouraged me yesterday, I'm not waiting until all these are neat and checked off to start this:

Sweet A is long overdue for a pair of bloomers to wear under her dresses in the summer, and I am about to burst I have so many sewing projects running around in my head.

I almost always make these kind of things a moral dilemma, not knowing how to divide my time. It seems there is always something else I should be doing. I know what my responsibilities are to my children, husband, and house. I also know that I am a woman and creating things is part of how I glorify God. But I have not yet found the balance... there is always something else that could be done. A wise woman once told me that I should not think of reading as a luxury; I needed to see it as an investment in my husband and children. When I am well read I have intelligent things to discuss with my husband, and more to pass on to my kids. Do crafty projects fit in that "investment" category as well???

On a totally unrelated note, we just set up a larger monitor with our laptop, so I can edit pictures (hey, this isn't totally unrelated). On my laptop, the background to this blog page was a pleasant apple green, but now I'm seeing it as lime or chartreuse, which was not what I was going for. Do I just need to adjust my monitor or are you seeing neon, too?