Lest my brain explode...

Don't get me wrong. I'm immensely grateful for how good I've got it. I am! And, I know that I've got it good. :) But. Allow me, just for the moment, to whine and freak out a wee little bit...

Our official first day ever of full time public school is in less than a week. Less than a week! That, in itself, is manageable. What might do me in, though, is the list of additional things happening between now and then...for instance:

• Our roof is being replaced as I type. (It's been rescheduled three times...first due to rain, then unexpected delay on another job, then truck problems. But. It's happening now. Fingers crossed that our regularly scheduled potential afternoon storms hold off for today. Please.)
• A second round of pest control spraying (for the ants) will be happening sometime today also...because I still saw ants. Bleh.
• The older two boys have eye appointments Friday, as I was trying to squeeze those in before Noah's schedule becomes much more difficult to work around. (Micah and I have appointments also, but those are a full week away, not a couple days, lol.)
• I need to wrap up our summer reading program as the boys have until Friday to finish. They'll all meet their minimums and it's gone really very well. I'll need to settle up with boys for the "prizes" they each earned. (Maybe they'll cut me some slack and give me an extra week or so...)
• There's an additional demo team practice Saturday morning to get ready for New West Fest the following weekend. (This isn't a huge deal but Micah's going to join in for this one routine and is being rather indecisive about how he feels about it, so I keep hearing about it, lol.)
• The deck is being removed Sunday.
• Nathan will then need to build some temporary steps until we figure out the back patio situation. (Eventually we'll probably also replace the sliding door but didn't get on top of that soon enough to get it scheduled before the house painting.)
• Nathan needs to go around and remove things from the outside of the house to prep for house painting. (The previous owner added all sorts of crazy cables to the outside of the house rather than taking the time to hide them. They've just been painted to blend in, but we're taking the opportunity to actually remove them this time.)
• Prepping for house painting will also involve removing the fence portions that abut the house. We'll schedule full replacement of the fence after that. (We managed to get the two trees that were growing into the fence lines removed last week.)
• I need to give all my guys haircuts prior to student ID pictures being taken (on Tuesday for Noah and on the 18th for the younger two).
• Exterior house painting starts Monday.
• Because they're also going to paint the front door, we need to get new front door hardware and a new doorbell ahead of time to make sure that all fits and is sanded and such.
• (And we have new exterior lights and house numbers to add, but that can wait if need be. Decided we might as well update the whole look while we're repainting and redoing the roof and gutters and screens and such.)
• We have a half day parent orientation for CEC on Monday.
• Noah has a half day new student orientation for CEC on Tuesday.
• The new window well covers we ordered should be installed early next week-ish.
• We're hoping to find a new-to-us second vehicle within the next week...this involves coordinating schedules to both go test drive things. 

Oy. In addition to all that, we'll also have our normal karate classes/practices (I count five between here and next Wednesday), laundry, groceries (which will need to be tweaked to deal with school lunches and actually eating breakfast), bill paying, house keeping, mowing and weeding, getting together with friends, picking up our weekly milk, boot camp and running, and possibly archery practice. Oh, and I need to figure out our extracurricular schedule for the school year because I need to register Noah for school year swim team soon, too. And I have our homeschooling year to finish preparing for. And Micah's still having me take him around trying to sell his books. ;)

So. Now you know why my brain may explode. ;) On the bright side, in a week, all this will be done and I'll be down to just "normal" stuff like school and homeschool and karate and archery and swim team and household chores and such.

Oy.

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And throw in Nathan's birthday and your head might really explode!