What a week/month/year...
It has been a season of preparing my younger daughter to go off to college, it feels like it has been a decade of getting her ready to go. My living room looks like the lost luggage department at Grand Central Station, but I think that we have nearly everything. Tomorrow, we go buy extra sets of contact lenses and underwear (how's that for a combination) and maybe a set of pajamas or two. Then, it is a question of laundry and somehow packing all the stuff so it will fit in my car (along with 3 people) for the almost 5 hour drive to Boston. It wouldn't be so bad if it were only clothing and soft goods, but it isn't. It is computer stuff and a sewing machine and a lamp and a desk fan and a window fan and a coffee maker and....
(and we bought the coffee maker she said that she had everything she needed for college; a computer and a coffee maker.)
We actually don't leave for Boston for another week and a half, but I've gotten to the point where I can't wait for it to happen. I love my daughter and if she were to stay home, I wouldn't mind her company (but she would have to learn how to drive!) but I am just tired of this in between stage. I feel like it is filling my brain as well as my time.
The RenFaire opened last weekend. And my spouse and I had a study group to attend the same weekend. This Thursday was the Home Economics competition at the State Fair/County Farm and Horse Show, where I enter the baking contests (how old fashioned domestic can you get?). This meant re-arranging my work appointments so I could bake and then take the day to go to the fair with my entries. I won a 2nd place for a chocolate cake and a 3rd place for raisin pumpernickel bread. I got points taken off of the bread because "the crust was too dark." Excuse me, it is nearly a black bread, how could the crust be too dark?
The RenFaire on Saturday, and back to work today...