4 little monkeys jumping on the bed..

4 days to go, 4 very busy days..

Things to do as time allows:
1. Find other inflatable mattress
2. Hang mom's instruments
3. Finish stacking the wood, about 4-5 loads left
4. Finish building the new pantry, waiting on a replacement piece
5. Call and transfer mom's last retirement money
6. Call and order Internet & Phone for Virginia (tried 4 times already but the tenant there now hasn't called to cancel his and they can't make my account until he does or we fax in the house deed and stuff. I spoke to the tenant at his work today and he said he was going to call as soon as we hung up but he didn't)
7. Paint mom's wall that was ripped out to fix the wiring
8. Clean out the jeep
9. confirm trailer location
10. set up the dvd player in the living room
11. change water filters

None of those are especially hard, except the wood, I've finished 17 other things from the list in the last 2 weeks. Finding the time in between long days out for mom's doctor appointments, grocery shopping, getting my new glasses, meetings with both the old and new contractor, going out for lunch, making dinner, cleaning up the house (has to be vacuumed at least every other day with all of Woofie's fur), trips to the dump, pharmacy and post-office, mowing and weedwhacking the yard (much of the yard has giant rocks and hills you can't mow around), packing up my stuff and the stuff mom is letting me take, internet going down every time it rains (which it's done very often for the last 2 months), helping mom when she has trouble or gets frustrated with what she's doing.. there's more but I think you get the idea.

Tomorrow, my brother has an appointment with the local college to talk about enrolling options. We're also going to lunch so it'll be a good 4 hours at least, then we might run some errands but basically most of the day will be used, but I'll be calling comcast again, and a few other places about orders. Then dinner will probably take awhile to make, I swear mom and G are trying to get me to cook all the complicated dinners before I go.

Wednesday we're meeting with the new contractor to discuss his rough estimates and plans. Eve though we're not fully sure his prices will be within range, at least he's keeping us fully informed of what he's doing and seems reliable. ++ Then we're probably going out to Home Depot to pick up the generator depending on what the contractor says about installing it, and likely grabbing dinner out. Again, at least 4-5 hours for all of that. Need to make a trip to the dump as well.

Thursday we're meeting with the aide from the home care company that may be working with mom. Then crossing my fingers about calling U-Haul about the trailer, and making arrangements. Final packing check.

Friday, we're driving the jeep to the airport to leave it there for when mom and G fly home from Virginia, then hopefully picking up the trailer and packing it.

Saturday, dropping off the puppies at 8am and heading down to Virginia.

Doesn't really look like a lot of stuff but there's so much checking, rechecking, calling, recalling, mini-errands stack up whenever there's any free time.