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Last night my husband Mark and I stayed up past midnight finalizing the details of our Christmas budget and to do list. We divided up the errands and agreed on which of us would buy for whom and how much money we would each use to do it. I (in an uncharacteristically organized fashion) made a detailed list of everything I'd volunteered to take care of as well as a few other things that occurred to me. I set it next to my computer along with a calendar showing my deadline for each item, so that I'd be ready to start tackling things this morning. Only before I'd checked off a single item, Mark saw the list.
"Um, honey?" said Mark.
"Yes?"
"I saw your to do list and it's really, really long. I didn't realize it last night but you did volunteer to take ownership of more than I did. Is there anything I can take off your plate?"
"Hm. I don't think so. It's a lot, but there's nothing I really want to hand off. I want to do it. It will be fun."
"And I wouldn't do it right," he said with a wink.
"Okay, yes. Damn it. I want to do it because I think you're not going to do it right. But I am going to meetings for that!"
This post was originally published at The Second Road.
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