Things Are

 Hi all,

Things are a little crazy right now. Work is, once again, exploding with stress and long hours. Kids are about to start school! We a week to get ready. I haven't even started looking at school supplies. The girls need new backpacks this year - they found some on amazon and threw in some pens and pencils - so at least we'll have that. House needs cleaning and organizing. There is just an overwhelming amount of stuff that needs to get done and competing priorities.

E had his first race today.

H has been babysitting this whole week.

C had a horse camp - she loved it.

My husband's birthday is coming up and I need to make sure I have ingredients for his pineapple upside-down cake.

There is also laundry - omg, there's laundry that I started this mornign and totally forgot until this very minute.

There is also an issue with E's class schedule (high school went to block schedule, so there have been some problems) - he is mostly taking care of things on his own, but he needs help putting together an email trying to get the school to do something a bit unconventional. All his math/physics classes are fine, but he wanted to take Honors English and, instead, he needs to choose between standard and AP... neither of those is a great option for him. Also, he thought he was taking French, but it's not in his schedule - some wires got crossed along the way (we should have paid better attention when the letter came listing the classes that he selected back in March - but I thought it was there - and it wasn't). For French - he can always take one more class his Senior year, and he already has the required number of years for the college programs he wants to apply to (2 years of French; he technically has 3 if you count the middle school). Also, he complained about the French class non-stop, so maybe this is meant to be.

Alrighty, I am going to run and take care of laundry.

How is your end-of-summer going? Do you also feel like it's a sprint to finish all those to-do's?