Finally Getting Some Things Done (Tackle It Tuesday #14)

I didn't have one great big tackle this week, but we did get several things done. Some of the things that we got done were:

-Tilling and raking out all of the dirt from where the yard got torn up from building on our new screened in porch. (Yes, I know I still haven't shown it off. I'll post pictures after we paint it.) I, of course, didn't actually do this. But, Eric did.

-Eric also managed to get all the grass seed mixture stuff laid down. We used almost THREE whole 15 lb bags of this stuff. I did manage to talk to Eric while he did some of it. Of course, I also got horribly stuffed up, and we were thankful that Eric had sinus surgery in May.

-Made my grocery list to fill out what else I needed for planning our menu for a month. Did the grocery shopping.

-You know what else Eric did? He picked a big bowl of veggies from the garden, and then took down the junkie fence we had around it. We've decided to go fence free, since we don't think it's actually keeping out any animals anyway.

-I went through our bank statements for the past ummmm...six couple of months. I found several things that either Eric or I hadn't written in. I was not pleased.

-I visited the bank with print outs of a check that was cashed in both March and May. Same check. My account had $21.50 deducted from it twice. The branch manager thought it was odd. "I'm surprised this was able to go through twice," she said cheerfully. I replied, "Yeah, I was also kind of concerned that my bank let the same check go through twice." I was not cheerful.

-Closed my post office box that I can never manage to remember to check anyway.

-Had a fun-filled 90 minutes or so at Chuck E. Cheese with my kids on Monday morning to celebrate Noah & Jack's birthdays. Really...it wasn't too bad. But, I'm still including it as a tackle, and every mother reading this can understand why.

-Finally registered my kids for Religious Education for next school year. Also tucked in a note that I have prayerfully decided that I can't commit to being catechist this year. I'm hoping that they forgot that my friend Angie had convinced she and I to do it. So, maybe they weren't counting on me anyway. (It's only a month away from starting now, and I hadn't heard a peep about my involvement. So, hopefully when we talked to the Director in passing one night about it, then he forgot about it later. I hope.)

-Sent out emails to everyone who said they might be interested in being a contributing member of the new homeschooling group blog that I will be launching by September 1st. I kept meaning to get around to emailing everyone, but just couldn't manage to get around to it. I'm glad to have sent it out now! If you thought you were supposed to get an email but haven't yet, let me know. I might have accidently left you off the list to send to. If you are interested in learning more about being involved, drop me an email: homeschooling (at) comcast.net.

Whew -- I *have* been busy the last few days! Poor Eric probably thinks he has been extra busy. What a guy!