Tired from a day full of baseball, I stood at the kitchen sink doing dishes.  Looking beyond the soap bubbles, I viewed the backyard where my boys were playing.  They were playing baseball.  Still playing baseball.  They had begun with the sun rising and were still playing baseball as the sun set.  They were happy.  They were smiling.

Yes, I was tired.  Yes, the lawn still needed to be mowed.  The laundry was in need of attention.  The Easter decorations were still proudly on display in all of their pastel glory, just reminding me of how they needed to head to the storage room.  Yes, plenty needed to be done, but I had spent my day doing something better.  I had helped make my boys smile.  Now, that’s a check on the To Do List worth noting.