Setting Lofty Goals

The kids leave Monday morning for my parents’ house for five days. I’m very ambitious that I can get a lot done in those five days.

MONDAY:
1) Go to lunch with L-Train and Nic on Monday.
2) Paint over the mural in CG’s room – I’m doing a nice beachy blue color on that one wall. She has requested a beach theme in her room.
3) Mow the front and back lawns.
4) Go to the pool and relax in the sun while listening to my audiobooks.

TUESDAY:
5) Rearrange furniture in CG’s room.
6) Paint over the ocean blue wall in CB’s room and take down vinyl wall art – he’s had a Finding Nemo theme since we moved here three years ago. Time to do something else in there. He says he wants Indiana Jones.
7) Go to the pool and relax in the sun while listening to my audiobooks.

WEDNESDAY:
8 ) Shampoo all carpeting in the house
9) Go to the pool and relax in the sun while listening to my audiobooks (sense a pattern here?).
10) Go see Harry Potter with Denis.

THURSDAY:
11) Do some outside yard work – getting up old wood mulch, and the rubber mulch.
12) Paint cedar chest. It’s off-white right now and is covered in marker ink since the kids tend to color on it. I’m painting it black. No visible marker ink then!!
13) Go to the pool and relax in the sun while listening to my audiobooks (sense a pattern here?).

Then on Friday afternoon I’ll leave for Virginia to pick up the kids, while Denis enjoys a couple days of solitude again. I’m actually half-tempted to wait and drive up on Saturday rather than Friday, so that I have one more day to do anything else that needs doing before the kids get home.