There are seven weeks until summer break. At my daughter’s school, we’re wrapping up the carnival and book fair, and there are only a few more PTA events left. We start standardized testing at my school soon, but that doesn’t affect me much. My daughter’s birthday is the last week of my school year, and I’m actually taking a day off to have her party on a Friday (they get out that Wednesday). Mostly, I’m looking ahead to summer.
I finally got our house listed on AirBnB for the Nicaragua trip, WAAAY later than I had intended. I need to check on dates with my husband for St. Louis. Most of the paper work for that is done with the city too. It took me SO LONG to get all the pictures because each room required SIGNIFICANT work to get it camera ready. I was taking note of how MUCH needed to come out before I felt it looked appropriate. If I don’t want to be hauling multiple Costco bags of stuff from each room to my in-laws garage before we rent it, I’m going to need to get rid of A LOT of shit. But that is part of why I want to do this. I need the impetus to really rid our house of a lot of stuff, and making money is definitely a powerful impetus for me. 😉
I really need to figure out what my plans are for Nicaragua. You’d think that looking into all that would make me really excited, but I get so anxious every time I think about it, I usually end up distracting myself with my phone until I’ve convinced myself it can wait. I hope that once I actually know where we’re going, and have reservations set up, I’ll be more excited.
I’m looking toward the summer a lot right now, mostly because the present has not been a super pleasant place. My son is testing my patience to the limit right now – everything is negative and he is constantly melting down in dramatic, and sustained, fashion. Sometimes his tantrums last, literally, hours. Being with him is incredibly exhausting.
His behavior is not helping things between my husband and I, which have been tense since I came back almost two weeks ago. I’m not quite sure what my husband’s problem is – actually I believe it’s a combination of many things – but I’m increasingly disinclined to care. His latest complaint was surrounding the state of the house, which we (mostly I) spent most of Sunday tidying. If his mood doesn’t improve this week I might entirely disengage.
Sounds like you and husband need a date weekend. Historically this helps a lot. I think the other historical pattern is one of him feeling un-something when you get super swamped ~ and then you went on ‘vacation’. Which you are planning to do again, per his view and, again, he doesn’t get the vacation ~ nor the time ‘off’ over summer. Instead he will keep his normal work schedule. (Now, this is from his vantage point, not a neutral view. AND, he is not aware or being deliberate. Jealously is difficult & we all want to deny we do it.) Time for just you two seems to make a huge difference and re-set everyone’s emotions.
Really proud of you re the B&B work. It takes lots of energy and work to get that all set up and links up! Getting things zipped up and put away will be a lot too, AND, setting up for you and children in foreign country is a massive amount of work.
You have so much energy to be able to think of making it all happen. I remain in awe. Good wishes!
I always get stressed thinking about/planning a vacation. Imagining it (Before having to figure out the nuts and bolts) and post-booking, its all exciting, but something about actually getting it all squared away (and pulling the trigger on paying for it) makes it all too real and stressful. I can’t believe there are so few weeks left of the school year! I hope they go as smooth as possible for you, and that you can push through and plan the trip and then start getting super excited for it!