As the wild weekend winds down....

Things I can do on a Sunday afternoon while waiting for my children to return:

• Read the Sunday paper pre-trampling.
  
• Put away the laundry (finally).
  
• Remove stained and outgrown clothing items from children's wardrobes and bury the evidence.
  
• Eat Doritos for lunch.
  
• Finish reading the novel I started yesterday.
  
• Marvel a little bit about how much I've missed devouring a book, uninterrupted, like that.
  
• Make travel plans.
  
• Make lists of things to do in preparation for said travel.
  
• Admire how clean the kids' rooms are.
  
• Do more laundry.
  
• Pay bills and balance my checkbook.
  
• Use vulgar language in reference to my checkbook.
  
• Watch the Olympics. When my interest flags, amuse my ignorant American self by trying to pronounce the foreign Olympians' names.
  
• Check the clock... three or four hundred times.