So many lists

Oh my gosh, so many lists!! So many things to do and only a few more months to get it all done!! Ahhh!! With graduation and prom and softball season and taxes and huge end of the year events at work, on top of finishing our kitchen and potentially a bathroom remodel, no wonder I wake up at 5 am and can’t go back to sleep. Like from a dead sleep, wake up and starting reeling off 150 things I need to do that day. That can’t be healthy!

So, Monday I sat down and literally wrote separate lists for everything. Yellow notepad that I plan to be attached to me as often as my phone is for the next 60 days. Maybe that’ll help me stay on task. Cause it seems that although I know I have a million things to do before now and mid-May, I find myself easily distracted. I could go through old baby pictures and gather decorations and get food ordered, OR … I could check out the latest recipes in my Kraft magazine or watch some easy crockpot meal videos on Facebook instead.

I justify my procrastination by insisting that I simply MUST stay on top of the laundry and make dinner and sweep floors and clean counters and vacuum rugs and dust blinds instead of facing my lists of to-dos. Ain’t no cleaning lady coming in so someone has to do it! Sorry Prom list, you’re going to have to wait. However the other night I did force myself to start dinner and then begin work on the taxes while it cooked and then finished the taxes after we ate. And I managed to survive! That list is almost checked off! Just have to deliver the goods!

The softball list is going to take a chunk of time so maybe I should set an appointment for myself. Maybe offer myself a reward if I can punch that out as well! A treat at the coffee shop, perhaps! Yes, I like that!

The remodel lists are sort of mine but not really up to me. I have to pick stuff out, but I’m not responsible for the labor so how hard can it be to check that list off. Pick out the dumb backsplash and paint swatches. Geesh! Hubby is ready and willing to finish things but I can’t seem to focus. And I’m the one who wants it all done and pretty by the time family comes to graduation in May. As Larry the Cable Guys says, “Get ‘er done!”

The graduation list is certainly the longest and the most intimidating. I have no idea what I’m doing and it’s so dang emotional. I’ve never had a child graduate before and I don’t know what’s protocol or cool or rude or dumb. I just know I have a tank load of people to get addresses for and a party to plan and decorations to buy and food to plan out, and then the hardest part of all of this, going through old photos and videos of my little girl. And then.....try not have a big sobfest in front of the rest of my family.

I’m thinking maybe I’ll go see if I can find a good salmon recipe instead! And if I feel energetic swing down to the paint store and grab some swatches. Maybe......