Juggling

Our lives have become unbelievably busy these last few weeks and I have not had a spare moment for you, dear blog.  Here are a quick listing of the balls I seem to be juggling right now...

Molly...she has had an infection in her pointer finger for several weeks.  After a round of antibiotics, we found last week that the infection was back.  I brought her in to start another round of antibiotics and three times daily soaks of her finger.  After a week of lots of medicine, she seems to be healing.  I hope that continues and we can beat this infection finally!

The house...it sold in 4 days!  It passed inspection and was appraised.  It looks like we will actually have to move out on June 8 (the day after the kids finish their school year).  We are shocked by how quickly this has all happened.  I don't even know what to say except thank God I don't have to clean every day anymore!  I am also unexpectedly sad every time I drive home and see the sold sign.  After 10 years and three kids, this place really has become home.

The next house...we have no idea where that will be.  I spend every waking free moment trying to find it. Apparently it is a needle in this haystack of life.  We continue to look at existing options, but they seem to sell faster than we can think or move.  We are meeting with builders, but can't find a location we love.  We hope that our meeting tomorrow will go well and we might have finally found a builder and a lot.  Of course, if we have to build, we will need a rental in the meantime.  So, my other spare moments are spent trying to find a place that is cheap enough, big enough, allows dogs and will let us only rent for 4 months starting June 1.  Another needle...

Colin...had a great birthday, started spring lacrosse, and got through all his homework assignments.  I didn't plan the words most amazing 10th birthday, but he still had a good week of celebrations (thank you to everyone for your patience in rescheduling around our dear friend's funeral and the house situation).  I volunteered to be his spring lacrosse team parent, so when I haven't been looking for houses or cleaning ours, I have been working on schedules, uniforms and parent questions for his lacrosse team (which reminds me that I need to make a cheat sheet for all the parents of the kids names and numbers for our first game on Sunday).  And if that isn't enough, he has entered testing season and giant project season for school.  Just managing his school schedule is a full time job!

Zach...disturbed about this moving business, but happy in school.  It turns out from time to time, that your gut gives you the right answer.  When it came to moving Zach to Westwood last fall, my gut told me to do it.  He has had a great year with lots of friends and lots of fun.  He is happy and NEVER tells me he doesn't want to go to school.  I rejoice in that as much as I can!  Because, he often reminds me how I am ruining his entire life by moving him from the one home he has always known and loved.

Preschool...I have become the unofficial photographer for preschool.  I have a job this week for them, which I still need to remember to complete.  I also need to start the year end slide show which will be played at the Moving On ceremony on Molly's last day of school.

Friend...I have been a horrible friend the past few weeks!  I can't remember to call anyone on time or respond to emails that don't have an action item due RIGHT NOW.  I hope this will get better in June when the dust settles some.  Please forgive me.

Motherhood, et al...All my regularly scheduled jobs seem to be on hold while I juggle all these other balls.  I feel horrible about the fact that I have only two more months of Molly home with just me and I am "wasting" that time talking to Realtors and lacrosse parents.  The boys are commenting about how I don't seem to notice them anymore.  My husband and I only talk by email and text.  I feed my kids sandwiches for dinner twice a week while we run to lacrosse and soccer practices.  My dog gets no exercise.  I get no exercise.  I drink too much caffeine and don't sleep well.  Guilt and bad habits seem to cover this area well.  But this too shall pass...

I have a couple of great stories from the past few weeks.  I hope to get them documented soon.  And I have some fun pictures to share too.  Hope to get them on here soon too.  When I get tired of packing boxes...I will be back to do just that!