Reasons I didn’t get anything done today

I didn’t get anything done today. Nope, nothing. Well, more accurately, I got a lot of things done, but none of them are easy to prove to others. I used to feel guilty about things like this, in my pre-baby days. While I feel less guilty now, I still feel compelled to make excuses about why I didn’t manage to do a load of laundry despite being home all day. So, today, instead of giving myself excuses, I decided to write them down here.

Here are the reasons I didn’t get anything done today:

My baby crawls really, really fast and I just chased him around all day to prevent him from hurting himself and/or the dog
During his nap I was too tired to do anything (See point above, re chasing baby)
It was raining
It was too hot
Started 4 projects and then immediately forgot about them
Didn’t feel like cleaning
Too tired because my baby woke up at 4 am and the dog woke up at 5
Baby made me laugh too hard making funny noises
Too busy taking pictures of the baby and dog
Too busy texting the aforementioned pictures to mother and mother-in-law
My knee hurt
I was too hungry
I spent an hour looking for my coffee, found it, moved it and lost it again
I had to change the baby 3 times due to unfortunate poop incident and unfortunate sippy cup incidents
Changed 4000 diapers
Had to make 56363 snacks (only 1 was for me)
Had to clean up all the snacks (The dog helped with this one.)
Had to take the dog on a walk
Spent 20 minutes wrestling baby to put on sunscreen for the dog’s walk
Baby was slippery from sunscreen and fell while crawling away. He cried for 5 minutes even though he was not hurt.
Baby spent all day trying to stick his hand up my nose. It is hard to do anything with a little finger in your nose.
Reading cute baby stories
Singing stupid songs (mostly made up about various things we were doing)
Had to explain the names of all the things my son was pointing at before he lost interest and pointed at something else
Tried to interest my son in his many toys instead of repeatedly trying to climb the stairs or play with the dog’s water dish
Tried to teach the baby to play fetch with the dog…and succeeded!
Tried to do a sit-up
Had to lie down from trying to do a sit-up
Had to stop baby from trying to eat dog kibble
Had to stop dog from trying to eat baby rice crackers
Had to eat my food alone in the closet
Had to pee
Had to text my husband about what he wanted to eat for dinner.
I remembered I had a hammock and lied in it for 5 minutes
Watched the baby nap
Dog fell asleep on my foot