Domesticity reigns

Today was a day for working through accumulated household jobs:

• Clean bathroom (not the usual slap-dash, "just enough that I can stand to use it," but thoroughly)
• Clean kitchen (ditto)
• Weekly laundry
  
• Balance checkbook, and pay bills
• Clean out and refill bird feeder
• Dust family room (oil coffee table)
• Sort and deal with (put away/toss out) accumulated piles & clutter

Even adding a nap-- curling up like a cat in the warmth of an unreasonably gorgeous afternoon-- I made it through the whole list (well, the laundry is still in progress-- but that's normal). Then we capped off the day by cooking dinner as a family (the boy is turning into a respectable young grill master). Nothing adventurous or exciting... just a pleasant day, and a list of various parts of my life and surroundings put "decently and in order." And it's amazing how good that feels.