Crazy daze
It is 10:41 and I have about six things started and nothing finished. My head may actually fall off it’s swivel from dashing in many directions at the same time. Why all the chaos? Well, it has begun. It appears my lazy months of summer are officially over! Over, over, over.
Yes, the inevitable has crept up on me and school is upon us. It scares me…having to be up at 7:30 every morning. I know I’ll be okay, but it still makes me balk at the idea that someone else is now controlling my schedule. Not that it would worry me enough to homeschool. Uh, uh. I admire all you moms who do homeschool, but this mommy is looking forward to those precious few hours of time to myself. Call me selfish, I don’t care. I think as a mom we earn that time!
(**See this is what I’m talking about, I get up to get a fly swatter to beat the tar out of the little bugger circling my head and I get into the kitchen and “OH, my pills, I forgot to take them with my breakfast speaking of which, why is that counter not wiped yet, I should do that. Right, I was going to put those dishes in the dishwasher, too” and so on and so on. No wonder I get nothing accomplished.**)
Secondly, I’m in a flurry because it’s September and September means getting ready to start our next house. We made the nerve wracking trip to the bank yesterday to see if they would be able to (Oh, be right back…forgot a wet shirt in a lump in my bathroom sink that I was handwashing and it needs to be hung up…) advance us enough money to start building BEFORE we put our house up for sale so that we can get it close enough to completion and avoid another move in with mom and dad. Not that I don’t appreciate all the generosity on my parents part in letting me and my brood bunk with them for 5 1/2 months the first time and 3 1/2 months the second time, but we’d love to avoid it again. As I’m sure they would, too.
Happily the bank agreed to advance us enough to start, so as soon as our lot is ready (maybe in a month) we will be digging our basement and starting over. This means that the next month will be filled with lining up trades, picking selections (oh, goody), organizing and getting this house ready to sell. To make matters a little more hectic, Jer’s boss, who is also a real estate agent and will be selling our house, said that we should keep our house in showable condition because even though it’s not on the market yet, he’s going to keep it in the back of his head if he comes across someone who wants a December/January possession. Translation? I have to keep my house clean. Always. He said to expect short notice drop ins. Yay! (thick with sarcasm)
AND on top of all that, said boss approached me yesterday to decorate their display home across the street. This means I get to go shop for appliances, furniture, and accessories on someone else’s dime : ) That makes me inordinately happy. The catch? Oh, he won’t be ready for me until next week sometime. NEXT WEEK?!? Oh, no problem, that’s plenty of time to come up with a complete plan and shop for everything and put it in there! Again, heavy with the sarcasm. These things take time! Time! Of which I suddenly seem to have a shortage of to get everything done.
So why exactly am I sitting here writing when I could be organizing, cleaning, shopping, planning, decorating or rocking and humming? Good question. Perhaps just to give you all the heads up that I may be missing for a while. If you are looking for me, that’s where I’ll be.
Erin, I’m so excited for you what with this new house to put together for Jer’s boss. What a challenge … I KNOW you’re gonna rock it!
Comment by Nicole — September 4, 2008 @ 12:26 pm
wow erin! wow. xo
Comment by Ruth — September 4, 2008 @ 1:39 pm
And this post has just reminded me that I haven’t taken my meds today yet either!! Oops.
Another house and another show home, eh? How exciting! Looking forward to lots and lots of pictures!
Comment by ValleyGirl — September 4, 2008 @ 2:23 pm
Oh, I HATE that time of “anyone could drop in at any moment so the house must be perpetually spotless!” That’s actually what drove me to bunk with my in-laws, so that I could clean the house once and for all and then get out of it before we could mess it up again!
Whew. What a lot of stuff you’ve got going on! Best of luck with all of it! And yay! New house! How exciting!!!
Comment by Brillig — September 4, 2008 @ 2:27 pm
Busy is better than bored, I guess but wow, talk about crazy! Hope you find joy in the excitement of it all!
Comment by Kimberly — September 4, 2008 @ 2:31 pm
wow. i so am not trading my life with you right now! try next month. no, the month after that.
Comment by holly — September 4, 2008 @ 5:45 pm
Busy busy! I pray you experience God’s peace in the middle of it all.
Comment by Elleah — September 4, 2008 @ 6:56 pm
Decorate a whole house with somebody else’s wallet? I’m so jealous I’m drooling!
Comment by nutmeg — September 8, 2008 @ 1:55 pm
wow, erin! you do have a pretty busy schedule. :0)
but, i thought that you weren’t going to build another new house for a while. did i make that up???
good luck with everything.
Comment by robin — September 8, 2008 @ 5:24 pm