The speaker's to-do list is built entirely from fairy tales. Dancing shoes, a basket for Grandmother, a frog on a pillow, straw spun into gold: familiar stories are piled together as if they were ordinary errands. That is part of the fun, but also the point. In these tales, the heroine's life is mostly work, and much of it is hard, strange or dangerous. Cutting off a finger to open a mountain and carrying a skull of fire home sit right beside mopping the kitchen floor.
The speaker sounds practical and determined, with a dry humor. She treats impossible tasks as things simply to be done. The final stanza turns hopeful. Rhyming "long" and "told," she imagines letting her hair grow so her story will always be remembered. The mood is playful and a little dark, but it ends on a quiet wish: that all this labor will become a story worth telling.