I'm Behind . . .

I have an ongoing list in my head of projects on which I am behind. Like seriously behind. Here's hoping if I put them in print I'll get busy, or at the very least some of you can encourage me (gently, I'm rather stubborn and don't like other people bossing me around) to complete them.

Things on which I am behind:

1) The baby quilt I started for Gabe. I just have to miter the border, put it together, and bind it. Only I don't know how to miter. So it has sat in my sewing basket for the past 6 years. I will finish it, I will. Someone please, just tell me how to miter. Oh yeah, and bind it.

2) The baby scrapbooks for the boys. All three of them. Now, I'm not a scrapbooker. I am, however, a devoted baby picture getter. I've got all the boys' professional baby pictures sitting in a pile (except for the ones in frames). I have a vision of how I want the pictures positioned on pages in a beautiful album. I see the birth announcements, with envelopes, on the opening pages. I even have few supplies. But I have nothing to show for it. I mean, if I don't put these books together, it's like I never even bothered to take the pictures at all. And Gabe and Nate look so much alike in their baby pictures that if anything ever happened to me, no one would know who is who (yes, even Dan can't tell). I thought kindergarten was a nice deadline by which to have this finished, so then I could start a school-years binder. I'm behind. Is middle school too late to shoot for?

3) My family recipe book. Two years ago our family compiled almost all of our favorite recipes into a Word document. My sister and mother printed theirs out and are using a binder and the recipes. I'm still digging through a teeny box with small recipe papers (when I do cook). I have a binder I bought with cute printable recipe paper. If I start on this, I could once and for all correct all the times my mother writes "1 C." and really means "1 can" instead of a cup. And the only way you'd know what size can is if you'd seen her pantry. I just need to do it. I'm sure if I complete it, I will cook more often and my family will be happier and healthier.

4) My period. Yes, I'm now about 11 weeks behind on that. Which explains some of my panic about the above items. If I don't get those completed before the end of August, there's no hope of them getting done for at least two more years. And I have this crazy theory that I keep having boys because I never finished Gabe's quilt! (My other theory is that Dan is such a cougar fan he only makes Y sperm.) Is it too late? If I complete it before the ultrasound could that change the outcome? Regardless, I really do need to finish these projects. I mean, at least one of my kids should enjoy the quilt with 2 inch squares that I painstaking sewed together individually, before I learned about strips. Anyone ready to pick a "Finish Up Saturday" so we can report to one another about all the things we finally completed?