Today I

• made it through my Adoration hour with Stella in tow (my college student babysitter is gone for break)
• gave the lady in the next pew the benefit of the doubt when I suspected she was looking daggers at us
• got through Stella's two-year well-child exam
• along with the lead test blood draw (the down side of a 1923 frame house)
• picked up supplies for tonight's festival of baking
• wove in ends, wrapped up gifts, taped up packages for goddaughter/nieces/nephew
• mailed off parcels with nary a peep from the sling-riding toddler
• bought the easy part of a fun gift for my husband
• took four children to the fabric store
• and for ice cream
• and got the middle boys to their games club so close to on time that I won't even berate myself a little
• rediscovered how woefully embarrassingly bad I am at Photoshop
• by making my husband look like an alien in our family picture
• got one Snapfish calendar ordered anyway
• made 7 dozen cookies while settling a creeped-out boy and his fussy sister
• emailed the creeped-out boy's teacher to suggest that she pick a more appropriate movie for next year
• wrote a kind of lame blog post
• thought pained thoughts about the quantity of dishes generated by baking 7 dozen cookies and cooking for a family of 7
• decided to do 15 minutes' worth of them and call it a night