N and I are leaving on a cruise (to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary!!) one week from tomorrow and while I am incredibly excited, there is still a ton I need to do. My mom is coming to our house to stay with the kids and pets (thankfully saving us the cost of boarding the dog all week plus getting trapped into a holiday weekend since we’ll be back just before Memorial Day). I’m a little nervous about being almost totally out of touch for so long. We travel without the kids quite a bit, but it’s a little harder to stay in contact while on a cruise ship. I’m sure it will be fine, and we did discover that text messages should only cost 50 cents while on board, but still.
But before we really get to that point, I have to:
- write a letter giving Mom permission to seek medical care for the kids and get it notarized
- make copies of our insurance cards
- notify both kids’ schools that my mom will be the only available emergency contact for that week
- compile a list of doctor/dentist/vet phone numbers and other contact info to leave at the house for Mom
- do a ton of laundry (apparently being done with class for the semester has made me lazy. I’ve done NOTHING of value for days now.)
- take N’s sport coat to the dry cleaners and get him some new dress pants
- set out AE’s baseball clothes and instructions to the fields, since poor Nonna will have to take him to at least 2 post-season tourney games
- brave the attic to find the garment bag, which hasn’t been used in ages and is probably now a bird nesting spot
- actually begin to pack
Fortunately, I have already:
- bought two swimsuits and two pair of flip-flops for myself, along with some shorts and shirts for N
So, you know. There’s that.
In other news:
- I am furiously checking myASU to see if maybe final grades have been posted. I know they won’t be until early next week and yet I cannot stop. I need to know what I made in statistics, dammit!
- My car is in the shop. Again. I don’t even know what to say at this point. Anyone in the market for a 2007 BMW X5 with undetermined mechanical problems?
- We’re going to a wedding next Saturday that starts at 10:30 in the morning. I don’t have a clue what you wear to a wedding at that time of day.
- AE has a project due on Monday. We’re supposed to build a polar bear habitat. We’ve known about it for WEEKS and have yet to start. Procrastination, FTW!
- I got a Dyson vacuum recently and I LOVE it. Vacuuming is the one household chore that I actually enjoy so I figured it was worth a splurge and thankfully I was right!
- Both of my children are being incredibly annoying today. Or I am incredibly impatient. Probably a little of both. Either way, they need something (AGAIN) so I better wrap up the world’s most boring post.
