We’ve certainly fallen into fall over here

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This article was published 07/10/2008 (6390 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

I can’t remember a time when this household has been as hopping as it’s been in the last several weeks. It seems like my “to do” list just keeps gaining steam. Here’s a sampling of what needs to get done around here in the very near future:1. Phone Pan Am clinic to make a follow-up appointment for my son’s “minor” injury. I think our countdown is at about 3 more weeks. My son has graduated from a full length yellow Greg Wiggle cast to a below the knee purple Jeff Wiggle cast. After this one’s off, let’s hope we’ve seen the last of wiggly coloured casts.2.  Meet with Maria Abiusi at the Food Studio on Roblin Blvd. tomorrow morning to find out what, if anything, my kitchen “helpers” can do to help with Thanksgiving dinner. Read all about it in my column this Saturday.3.  Drop my son off at preschool. Use my “free” time to catch up on all my university reading.4.  Grocery shopping. I can see the shelves in our refrigerator. Always a bad sign.5.  Go shopping with my daughter to buy winter boots, mitts and a hat. Chances of going without her? Nil. When she sees me swing my over-sized purse over my shoulder and hold my car keys at the same time, she screams “SHOPPING!” so loud I think even our neighbours down the street can hear her.6.  Clean office. I always write this one on my list for fun. It never actually gets done.7.  Phone my husband’s aunt to find out how she makes her yummy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.8.  Bake a batch of cookies and take to my son’s preschool class on my day to be “snack mom.” While at school, make sure to pretend I bake at least two times a week and not two times a year.9.  Bake another batch to take to my daughter’s preschool class. Continue the charade.10.  Restock craft closet. Conveniently forget to buy more glitter.11.  Finish reading the stack of parenting magazines by my bedside. You know the kind that has all the pictures of that size 2 model dressed up like a stay-at-home mom, cooking wholesome meals in her immaculate kitchen. When I turn the page, her children eat her balanced meal with a smile, wearing vests.12.  Buy seat cushions for my kitchen chairs that are covered with chocolate, Play Doh and glitter. Something my kids did when they were not wearing vests.13.  Return a roster of phone calls, pay bills, organize play-dates, write a paper for school, sing songs, finger paint, find rented DVDs in toy box and return (the nice girl on the phone said she didn’t mind if they were slightly scratched. Not sure what she considers a “small” scratch).14.  Fill out Scholastic book order and personally hand it to the teacher. 15.  Locate Pumpkin and Spiderman costumes that my children will approve of. 16.  Go to bed early. Again, I just like to write this one down hoping that one day the Law of Attraction will actually make it so.And this is, of course, just a sampling of the good things that lay ahead over here. Anyone care to share their schedule with the rest of the class?