Today is Sunday. We move Friday. In the next 5 days, I have to pack every last thing to be moved. I think I'm almost there, but when I see my daughter's room, I feel there's so much undone. She swears she needs everything in it right up to the last night. As for the rest of the house, we're in good shape, but there's so many little details. It's part of the reason I'm not sleeping again. I was doing great and sleeping 5 and 6 hours in a row after we first were told we could move where we wanted. I did great after we began the packing, and after signing the documents to move in. This last week, I've had trouble sleeping again. Part of it is explained on my faith blog, but another part of it is just anxiety I would bet. It's hard to pack up an entire house by myself, keep track of paying off the last of the bills here while establishing the new ones for the new place. It's hard to juggle the finances when every day there's so much going on, between deposits, connection charges, things we need, etc. Fortunately, we've been blessed during this time with enough money to do all that we need to do, so it's not that kind of financial struggle, but it's keeping it all straight that's hard. We're also trying to finish up the 4th quarter of school. I could easily stop and have them resume after the move but they're both in the middle of chapters and with a two week break, they'd never do well on the end of chapter tests. Motivating them to do work at this time is so hard. In all this, Tim's gone. It's not easy doing it all alone. Hopefully by the beginning of 2014 (or sooner) he'll have a more local or regional job with this company so he'll be home either every weekend, or a few times a week, or dare I hope, every night? I still have to manually change our address with a few dozen businesses, and worse, go through the boxes that are left in the storage shed. The boxes left are somewhat open, not sealed up tight, and there's everything out there from black widow and brown recluse spiders, to bark scorpions. Every box needs to be pulled out, and gone through completely to be sure we aren't bringing anything poisonous with us. If I can do this without getting bitten or stung, it'll be a miracle! I've killed so many spiders and scorpions in there already. It doesn't help that it's been near 100 degrees all week and the critters are seeking quiet, shady, cooler shelter. 5 more days, then we move and it's done. Five more days...Five more days...
1. I recovered from my oral surgery and finally had my permanent crown put in. Four months to do what should've been 3 weeks.
2. Production week and 3 shows of Seussical the Musical.
3. Adam's prom with Hope.
4. Logan started working at Pizza Hut.
5. Logan started dating CJ.
6. We got accepted for our new place and I had to pack up the whole house.
7. Tim's few days home we had to fix up around the house so when we leave, everything's in good working order.
8. Tried to finish up most of the 4th quarter of our homeschool year.
9. Began selling off old curriculum.
10. 4 bags of clothes and many boxes of stuff I was ready to part with and donated to Goodwill.
11. Had to go through all the stuff in the storage shed.
12. Began a new Bible Study on Tuesdays.
13. Continued facilitating the Spiritual Gifts test.
14. Working on grades, GPAs, paperwork requests, ACT test signups, college info, etc. for Logan.
15. Had to figure out how to reduce costs and upgrade to smart phones in May.
May should be just as busy.
