How not to get anything actually done: Cleaning up the kitchen while the children are eating dinner
- Seat both children in their highchairs and dispense dinner
- Notice a pile of clean dishes that need to be put away
- Pick a frying pan off the top and put it away
- Notice that the cheese needs to be put away
- Look for the ziplock bag for the cheese
- Get a new bag
- Put cheese away
- Notice that the baby has run out of food
- Grab more veggies for her
- Get watermelon for C
- Notice that the dishes still haven't been put away, head back to the sink
- Realize that hamburger patty needs to be flipped
- Flip patty
- Notice baby has run out of food again and is whining
- Sit down to feed the baby strained peas
- Look for wash cloth to clean strained peas from the baby's face, hands, and highchair
- Get water for C
- Clean up strained peas
- Get hamburger patty
- Cut up hamburger patty
- Tell C that she has to eat it; she asked for it
- Find applesauce for baby
- Find spoon for baby
- Attempt to shovel applesauce into whiny baby's mouth
- Wipe applesauce from baby's cheeks, chin, and forehead
- Tell C that she doesn't get animal crackers until she eats hamburger
- Tell C to slow down
- Remember that baby needs medicine
- Mix medicine into spoonful of applesauce
- Distract baby long enough to get spoonful into her mouth
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