A Really Good Day

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I love a really productive day. There is really nothing so satisfying to me, as a mother and wife, than to finish a day and know that I used very moment possible to fill my vocation. Yesterday was one of those days. And maybe the title of this post should be "The Devil's in the Computer" because the reason for my very good day was that I shut the computer off, at least for most of the day.

I rarely do that, even though I know that I should. The computer is such a distraction, but I often find myself needing to legitimately check on something or send a quick email, and each time I do that, I am distracted by something else. Do you do that too?

But, yesterday, I shut the devil off and, besides my normal daily chores of making beds, fixing meals, wiping up bathrooms, sweeping floors, and teaching school, this is what I accomplished without distractions:

washed, dried, folded and put away 6 loads of laundry

made granola and then baked granola bars,
chocolate banana bread, and coconut biscotti
(I'll post recipes in the kitchen)

ironed half a dozen pairs of pants

planted all my vegetables and two new rose bushes

watered all the new flowers in pots

packaged and mailed two new rosaries and a birthday card

When I went to bed last night I was completely exhausted. Not that I'm not normally, but, it was a good boned-tired exhausted, and as soon a I prayed the Fatima prayer at the end of my rosary decade, I was out.

I think today I'll get some annuals to plant around my two new roses (I'll get some pictures) and sit on the porch with some hot tea and a coconut biscotti. Would you join me?

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