I just took SG to school and now I’m home, tossing my sheets into the wash as I jump into the shower. I have to be presentable today because I have three meetings (Sisterhood program planning, teacher conference at school, adult education at Temple). Getting out of the shower, the doorbell rings. It’s 7:55 and the construction guys are starting on the rebar for the garage foundation. I hear the cat throwing up somewhere. I haven’t opened the window shades yet! Oh shoot, I think I sent SG to school without a plastic spoon in her lunch. Get dressed, makeup, hair, shoes. Email someone about checking some dates for some community programs I’m working on before meeting the committee at 10. Woah! Lots of online book fair gift certificate orders came in! I think perhaps this is crazy, but this seems to be the perfect time to bake the 4 dozen brownies I promised the Temple for tomorrow evening’s reception. I am going there tonight anyway, so why not have them ready? Oven on, mixing, pouring, and in the oven. Prepare batch #2 while #1 bakes. This other recipe I have, from Pioneer Woman, requires melting butter on the stove, adding cocoa powder, and then dry ingredients. I’m just doing the melting part when the doorbell rings and my housekeeper is here. Oh shoot! I just realized I didn’t wash the cloths she uses to clean! Move sheets to drier and begin that wash. Back to stovetop… And since housekeeper is here, I need to put away my daughter’s laundry, pick up the 400 book fair fliers that are on the living room floor in assembly line fashion (fold, label, staple principal letter). What a mess. Off to committee meeting… have to make 5 copies of my agenda real quick. Grab a cup of ice water for the drive and head out with my folder of papers. On the way, pool guy calls and says the coping we have chosen is one that stains and he wants to drop by at 2:00 with some other samples. That’s the same time the exterminator is coming, but that should be fine. Wait, can the bug guy come when it’s raining outside??? Email is going crazy. Get brownies out of oven. The construction guys are literally making sparks fly in my front lawn, cutting this metal. Take photo to send Mr. B, who is in Dallas, I think. Maybe Austin. Write check for housekeeper in case she’s gone before I get back. Have to stop at grocery store to get butter and powdered sugar for icing. Oh, the lady I am selling that extra toy chest to is coming by this morning before 10 so I need to quickly put it out on the porch for her. Phone ringing… I am being added as an account signer for Sisterhood and can I be somewhere on Tuesday… and now who is at the door? I’ve got to get out of here to my 10:00 meeting.
This was me for about an hour one morning last week. I kid you not. I am busy, busy, busy but it’s all good, I promise. I feel like I used to feel when I was working at Ernst & Young – juggling multiple interesting projects and satisfied to be involved in so much fun stuff, meeting so many people I really liked. Of course, I’m not being paid money right now, but I am thankful I don’t need to think about that aspect of life right now. Well, I think about it, of course, because I balance the books and keep track of expenses and work with our financial advisor and pay the bills, but you know what I mean. Juggling so much really is panic-inducing sometimes, but I generally feel great to be doing what I find meaningful.
I thought I’d just record what I have been doing with my time lately, just to see it all in one place. SG’s schedule is sort of crazy as well. She, and therefore I, go to theatre class on Monday, softball practice on Tuesday evening, dance class on Wednesday, art (and sometimes a softball private lesson) on Thursday, and Religious School and softball game on Sunday. So far we’ve been able to have a snack and get her homework done before these activities.
School Book Fair chair – Brownie Troop Leader – Musical accompaniment for Religious School chapel services – Shirim Team at Religious School – Venture Philanthropy committee – Temple Sisterhood executive board – Mussar facilitator training – Adult Education committee – Softball team mom – various other boards – this blog…
My friends, I’ve got to take a short break from the blog for a few weeks. The book fair is beginning very soon and there’s lots to do. I have also been spending hours each day on Sisterhood tasks. Both are short-term but intense projects so I’m going to say farewell until Thursday, December 1. Mwah!
