Like I Need More on My Plate!

My back is really weak. It is feeling better after having slipped a disc or something a couple of weeks ago - feeling better as long as I do NOTHING! So, I have to resist the urge to do much more than laundry and dishes which is going to be hard once I see ladies here packing up and moving things and I am going to want to try and do at least part. I carried one box in from the car yesterday though and then had a hard time sitting through the concert. It was a great concert though. Check out www.jimcockey.com. We heard his Concerto grosso (whatever it's called) - and we were the first audience ever to hear it performed - it was the "world premiere" of it. We really liked it so I listened to his samples of his music on his website and I think I'm going to order it. That spring pg. 24 sounds like good house cleaning music and I've got a lot of that to do in the next few months! (The very day we decide to move, for the first time a couple in the ward called and invited us to a concert and movie triple date!!!! I almost screamed!)

I gave the boys haircuts tonight and worked on the taxes today. I still need to prepare tomorrow's before church Temple Prep class - the only reason we aren't moving sooner. And now another wrench in the plans - I think Sam has chicken pox! Yesterday the kids all had dental appointments and before he left Sam showed me what he thought were a couple of bug bites on his arm and chest. Today they've been multiplying all day and he has more on his chest, back, arms, and legs, as well as on his scalp - that kind of clinched that it wasn't probably just a bug in the bed or in his clothing.

We had decided to try and be moved in two weeks (that's when I'll be done teaching the class)and that I will continue working on the taxes. The move decision was made before the chicken pox thing - please don't let the baby get it! And how am I going to ask ladies to come help me pack if I have a child with the chicken pox!

The taxes are what's keeping post partum depression at bay somewhat because they have deadlines and so no matter how blue I feel and unable to get any oomph - I don't have a choice because there's a deadline. I wanted to pass them off to an accountant to try and be smart about what's on my plate, but then I have to get it ready for an accountant and so I'm having a hard time because if I've done all the work to get the numbers I might as well just finish the job instead of paying someone a thousand dollars to do it. That thousand dollar thing gets me too - that's a lot of money I can save us - not to mention how much less in taxes we'll pay because I know the expenses first hand and am very nitpicky about hunting down every penny spent and every receipt or bill.

We've all got head colds too. I had a cavity filled that had gotten really bad. I could feel air blow underneath the tooth. Turns out that's not a cavity (there was a cavity), but boneloss. I have space between the underside of my tooth and the bone. The dentist gave me the honest news that I probably won't take that tooth to the grave with me, but at least I didn't have to lose it now like I thought I was going. I've got two more cavities to take care. They will probably have to wait until after the move.

Well I'd better get back to tallying receipts. I'm late getting the 1099s for Richard's work done, they were due this past week. Also time to check on Sam in the tub, dab his pox, and put him to bed.