Does anyone else feel like there is way too much good stuff out there, and not enough time and energy to do it in, or read about it?  I sure do.  Right now I feel like I'm at the top of a roller-coaster feeling like it is way too high and looking a long long way down with that feeling of butterflies in the pit of the stomach.  I do NOT like roller-coasters at ALL, so you can imagine my dismay at the moment.

I've been looking at trying lapbooking.  I have instructions for one that fits right in with what we are studying right now, and I thought that Belle might enjoy something different.  It has taken me a week to find time to read the stuff, and I don't have it all printed off yet, nor do I have the stuff gathered to put it together.  One more thing to do.

We are getting ready for a trip Stateside.  It will be our first in a year.  I haven't even been to the City since the beginning of December!  Realize this is one shopping-starved lady!  I am trying to get all my ducks in a row--figure out what I need, do mail orders of what I can, and make a solid list of what I can't mail-order to buy in outlet stores on our route.  And I just remembered a phone call I forgot to make today--another thing to add to Monday's list.

The other thing I am trying to do before our trip is to finish Boo's kindergarten, so I can mail the teacher manuals to a friend to sell for me.  I do not want to ship them from Canada.  We've been doing two lessons a day most days, and only have about ten lessons left in both Math and Phonics, so that shouldn't be a problem.  It is easy for Boo, so I don't feel like I am challenging him too much.

Weekends are always busy because I clean house on Saturdays, and try to do all I can so I have a minimum of work to do on Sunday.  This week we are planning to have friends over, so I really need to be organized.

Add to all of the above, some good books, some good websites with information that I at least want to skim (fortunately I read fast), and the regular stuff--laundry, cooking, taking care of the children and my husband.

We will have one day off school next week (I've been doing five-day weeks again lately), with dental appointments in the morning, and I am hoping to get things done that day.  Hopefully I will be organized enough to actually accomplish something and not just waste time.

On another note, Belle finished another book today--her seventh this year--and a huge accomplishment for her.  And we got a lot more snow again yesterday afternoon and last night.  The huge piles of snow on the edge of people's driveways down our street were something else!  Some of them are higher than the top of our van.  Our path up from the driveway has packed snow on the bottom, and it goes through snow walls that are up to my thighs--at least.  I wish I had taken a yardstick and measured.  The snow fall this month is starting to remind me of our first winter here--when we got six feet of snow in one month.