Update on brain explosion

So. It's Monday night. Here's where things stand...

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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.) - DONE! Whew. It took a day and a half (longer than we'd been told) but is done and looks dandy.
• A second round of pest control spraying (for the ants) will be happening sometime today also...because I still saw ants. Bleh. - DONE. Fingers crossed.
• 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.) - DONE. Ordered more contacts for Noah and a new pair of glasses for Asher. (Asher didn't want to pick new frames but we ended up doing so since he didn't want to go without glasses for a week while new lenses were added. They'll be ready in a week or so.) Both boys' prescriptions went up slightly but otherwise look good. Incidentally, they also had time to see Micah. Micah, much to his chagrin, does NOT need glasses as of now. ;)
• 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...) - DONE. More on this when I do posts about homeschool stuff.
• 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.) - DONE. Micah's pretty happy about the whole thing and is now talking about possibly joining the demo team on a more full time basis.
• The deck is being removed Sunday. - Not done. This didn't happen as planned but should still get done before the house painting (same crew).
• 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.) - DONE. And Nathan's still not a fan of the previous owner, lol. 
• 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.) - DONE. Still need to schedule the fence replacement.
• 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). - DONE. Micah opted to have me shave off his mohawk again. ;)
• Exterior house painting starts Monday. - Not done...delayed until tomorrow. :)
• 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. - DONE. We'll put it on once the painting is finished.
• (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.) - DONE. Have these on hand now...just waiting for painting to be completed.
• We have a half day parent orientation for CEC on Monday. - DONE. Still very happy with this program.
• 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. - DONE. We *thought* we'd figured it out Saturday night, ended up going on a couple more test drives Sunday afternoon, made an offer on the second one, had it inspected this morning, and now have a second vehicle in the driveway. :) It's a 2005 Subaru Legacy...nothing fancy but a step up from what Nathan was driving, fewer miles, good condition, and only a wee bit more than the insurance paid us for Nathan's old car. It's in the driveway, though, until we can clean out the garage and figure out how to rearrange things to fit a second car that's not as stubby as the Scion was, lol.

Whew. Making progress... ;)

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Post a picture of the Legacy?