Posted in Family Life

Too much at the moment. Normally, my life is just a steady string of activities, responsibilities, and general mayhem. Right now, though, all these things are overlapping.

Probate stuff is still on the table; we did end up getting a lawyer, mostly to get some decent legal advice, but also to put some sort of pressure on the estate's lawyer to get something accomplished. I dropped the Girl's Night Out ministry; ARMS died out in our town (we have a really strong secular group in our town, and just kinda got edged out -- though we'll bring it back someday); and the pastor moved me from doing all the women's stuff to supervising and organizing -- helps me have a more flexible schedule to do whatever is necessary at the ranch. I might have someone to take over the church website. And, at the moment, homeschooling is on autopilot; she's studying by herself with minor direction from me, other than prods to get it done.

The biggest activity right now is in the writing department. Hubby is still doing his weekly food column, and I'm looking at a full schedule for the next couple of months as well -- building industry articles and Relay for Life soon after that. The fun ones, though, are causing the most stress at the moment. My dh is a huge train buff, and was asked to put together the train history of this area for the Grant County Centennial. First it was just for a display at the main event. Then our paper (the biggest one in the county) asked him to do a series of histories going by decade over the course of this year; the kicker is that they want us to do it together. You have to know that this is a new level in our relationship. Each of us can write with the advice of the other, but writing together?

Once we got our minds around that, the paper also asked us to do a food/recipe piece for every decade as well. That's even harder for me -- I know very little about food. But it's all happening, slowly. Which is the thing: tomorrow is the deadline for the trains and food articles for the paper. Either Friday or Monday is my deadline for the builder stories -- I can't remember which. Sunday is Dan's deadline for the regular food column. Sometime in all that, he has to finish writing up two of five train histories, and I have to reconfigure his blog to book form.

All before next Tuesday! Because at 10 am, we are supposed to be bright and bushy-tailed and ready to spread the historic word to the general public. Yay! We'll see.

So, in the midst of this, we get a wii, we get deeply hooked on Facebook, and we still have to eat and sleep. We bring it on ourselves, I know. And in the end, we're really going to enjoy all this. Remind me of that tomorrow night.