Long Day - Sarah
Today has been really long. In fact, this week has been impossibly long. Every time I feel like we're getting a step ahead, 3 more things get addded to the list of things that have to be done immediately. Just this week the list has included.:
Deal with Kim on Monday including cleaning her kitchen and dining room and filling her medication box and taking her to a doctor's appointment
Take Ethan to Kung Fu
Remember to give another homeschool mom money for the science center trip
Find out about homeschool baseball camp
Register Ethan for homeschool baseball camp
File an extension for income taxes returns for us
File an extension for income tax returns for JM
Send a check to import company for the beads we ordered
Send a fax to said company showing that we sent the check via registered mail
Drive to NJ to get the beads we ordered
Load the 21 boxes (each weighing about 20kgs/45lbs) into and out of the car
Deal with Kim on Wednesday including all of the above
Cook the other half of the lamb we bought (yes we bought entire lamb)
Make lamb bar-b-que
Make haggis
Go to the Costco
Go to the Stop-and-Shop
Find a good location for a Philadelphia area bead show
Find another upstate NY location for a bead show
Make a special order beaded prayer bracelet
Get out postcards for the upcoming bead shows
Make more labels for the findings
Figure out what tools we need to order
Get dirt for the garden
Get the back fence torn down
Get the ground leveled
Get the fence replaced
Start this year's garden in pots
Borrow Kim's car and drive it here
Get ready for the bead show this weekend
Start checking in the beads from the order
Take Ethan to baseball practice
Find present for the birthday party Ethan and Ryan are going to on Saturday
Wrap said present
Have Ethan and Ryan make cards to go with said present
Do at least 2 phonics lessons with Ethan
Do at least 2 shapes/colors/counting lessons with Ryan
Do at least 2 math lessons with Ethan
Find the rest of the info we need to apply for Kim to apply for money to get her house remodeled
Help a friend move some stuff to his apartment (not a lot, but he'd rather move it in the car than use public transport)
Move money around in Kim's accounts so she has cash she can use
Get to the bank
Take Ethan to Baseball practice on Saturday
Do laundry - 1 load to go
Clean the downstairs bathroom
Change the cat litter
Make sure the recycling gets out to the curb
That's at least a good chunk of the list. Of course everything on it is up for grabs. Like today when Ethan's coach announced that there's an opening day parade tomorrow at the same time as his best friend's birthday party. (Ethan chose the party. He'll go the practice afterward.)
What I really want to do is relax and just hang out with Ethan and Ryan. At least I got to that for a few hours today. I don't get to do that nearly enough.
-Sarah
Deal with Kim on Monday including cleaning her kitchen and dining room and filling her medication box and taking her to a doctor's appointment
Take Ethan to Kung Fu
Remember to give another homeschool mom money for the science center trip
Find out about homeschool baseball camp
Register Ethan for homeschool baseball camp
File an extension for income taxes returns for us
File an extension for income tax returns for JM
Send a check to import company for the beads we ordered
Send a fax to said company showing that we sent the check via registered mail
Drive to NJ to get the beads we ordered
Load the 21 boxes (each weighing about 20kgs/45lbs) into and out of the car
Deal with Kim on Wednesday including all of the above
Cook the other half of the lamb we bought (yes we bought entire lamb)
Make lamb bar-b-que
Make haggis
Go to the Costco
Go to the Stop-and-Shop
Find a good location for a Philadelphia area bead show
Find another upstate NY location for a bead show
Make a special order beaded prayer bracelet
Get out postcards for the upcoming bead shows
Make more labels for the findings
Figure out what tools we need to order
Get dirt for the garden
Get the back fence torn down
Get the ground leveled
Get the fence replaced
Start this year's garden in pots
Borrow Kim's car and drive it here
Get ready for the bead show this weekend
Start checking in the beads from the order
Take Ethan to baseball practice
Find present for the birthday party Ethan and Ryan are going to on Saturday
Wrap said present
Have Ethan and Ryan make cards to go with said present
Do at least 2 phonics lessons with Ethan
Do at least 2 shapes/colors/counting lessons with Ryan
Do at least 2 math lessons with Ethan
Find the rest of the info we need to apply for Kim to apply for money to get her house remodeled
Help a friend move some stuff to his apartment (not a lot, but he'd rather move it in the car than use public transport)
Move money around in Kim's accounts so she has cash she can use
Get to the bank
Take Ethan to Baseball practice on Saturday
Do laundry - 1 load to go
Clean the downstairs bathroom
Change the cat litter
Make sure the recycling gets out to the curb
That's at least a good chunk of the list. Of course everything on it is up for grabs. Like today when Ethan's coach announced that there's an opening day parade tomorrow at the same time as his best friend's birthday party. (Ethan chose the party. He'll go the practice afterward.)
What I really want to do is relax and just hang out with Ethan and Ryan. At least I got to that for a few hours today. I don't get to do that nearly enough.
-Sarah