“I intend to get up extra early tomorrow morning, for I’ve ever so much to do,” said Anne virtuously. “For one thing, I’m going to shift the feathers from my old bedtick to the new one. I ought to have done it long ago but I’ve just kept putting it off…it’s such a detestable task. It’s a very bad habit to put off disagreeable things, and I never mean to again, or else I can’t comfortably tell my pupils not to do it. That would be inconsistent. Then I want to make a cake for Mr. Harrison and finish my paper on gardens for the A.V.I.S., and write Stella, and wash and starch my muslin dress, and make Dora’s new apron.”
“You won’t get half done,” said Marilla pessimistically. ‘I never yet planned to do a lot of things but something happened to prevent me.’
–Anne of Avonlea, L.M. Montgomery
For once, Marilla’s gloomy prediction comes true – as her readers know, Anne’s planned productive day turned out quite differently than she imagined (though it was certainly memorable).
In the middle of my constant to-do lists at work and at home (which never do seem to get done), it comforts me to know my red-headed heroine didn’t have it all together, either.
cakes, tea and dreams 
I think that’s probably Anne’s greatest charm: that she is just an everyday kind of girl. Sure she’s witty, intelligent, funny, gregarious, and loyal. But she’s also flawed and struggles sometimes to get by in the world in which she lives with the people she loves – just like the rest of us.
You are one ahead of me. I just finished re-reading Anne of Avonlea tonight.
How I want to write up every quote to pin on my bathroom mirror.
I remember being comforted by this same passage myself!