(Original post date: Friday, May 11, 2007)

* every room in my house to be clean at the same time, for more than 30 seconds

* laundry and dishes that clean themselves and put themselves away

* healthy, delicious meals that cook themselves and that all members of my family like

* children who clean their rooms (not the shove everything in the closet or under the bed variety, either) without being reminded and sans whining, complaining, muttering or eye-rolling

* people to actually stop at the stop sign near my house

* a personal landscaper/gardener who works for free

* papers that grade themselves

* an extra hour or two a day that no one else knows about

* to be graceful (at least occasionally)