One more weekend

My in-laws are coming on Thursday night and I have Friday off. It’s a nice thing to look forward to - both the visit and the day off. I don’t have any big plans (sadly) for the school-imposed long weekend. Originally it was supposed to be a teacher work day but turns out if we have everything on a checklist done, we can bail on the work day and take the day off. Thank you, Lord. I don’t know if it’s the pregnancy (it probably is) but each day seems to be getting longer and longer. It also doesn’t help that it’s 90+ degrees out and it’s the middle of October. I know the weather is funky all over the globe (see this story about marathon runners if you don’t believe me) and that we’re not the only ones sweltering but … still. Middle of October people, it’s supposed to be around the low 70s. That’s right - the AVERAGE temperature for the month of October is 71 in this area. The average so far this month can’t be lower than 80.

And of course, on top of the temperature thing, there’s the water thing.

While the in-laws are here we’re going to hopefully finish up Nattie’s room (getting rid of that hideous yellow and redoing it in lovely lavender), and on Friday and Saturday, I hopefully get to sleep in.  I get up on Monday mornings and count the number of days I have before I can sleep in.

And after this weekend, all heck breaks loose.  Ready?  This weekend, the in-laws are coming, next weekend I have to work all day Saturday (required school day!  Boo!), then JJ and I have an event to go to that night, the weekend after we have our parenting class on Friday, then on Saturday I have a staff event with the elementary staff, then the next weekend I will be in Greensboro for a teacher conference, PLUS I have the parenting class (I hope I make it back in time), the weekend after that I have an open house here at the school, and the weekend after that I’ll be getting ready for Thanksgiving, then it’ll be Thanksgiving, then I have the elementary school Christmas concerts, report cards, Christmas parties, oh yeah, and Natalie could be born at any minute after Thanksgiving.  If anyone would like to teach me the secret of slowing time down, I would be forever indebted to you.