Too Much on the List?

I began this day with a pretty good list of things to get accomplished today--complete the laundry, clean the bathroom, restore order to various other rooms throughout the house, restore my dining room back to a dining room (post project), complete dinner (this all while caring for our 5 month old daughter). However as I began the day, I found other things that would be nice to do as well--clean the carpet, begin a scrapbook of Christmas 2011 memories, add some photos from a past zoo trip I found in my scrapbook materials to a photo album, and schedule a doctor's appointment (did complete this one).  Now with so much to do, I'm not sure now what I should do but I do know that now  there is way too much on the to do list for today. So now I am faced with deciding what will get done and what will have to wait until another day. While thinking about this, I realized that our family calendar is slowly but surely looking like my list for today. This week and weekend alone are already crowded with events for several family members. This is only the beginning of a very busy month around here as there are several extended family members' birthdays this month including one in this very house 12 days before Christmas. Her big sister has her first band performance that very night. I'm still thinking of what to do for her birthday and the logistics of before the performance or after. It's funny because we say that this year we will not over commit or wear ourselves thin but we somehow do and from the looks of it heading in that direction again this year. In and of itself one event here and one there does not seem to be much until you add them all up and the only time that is left is the actual holiday, but not even then because you are expected to be somewhere then too:). I love Christmas time but I loathe the pressures that come along with it.