Friday!!!

Here's what's swirling around in my head today...

• I need to bake cookies for J&J to take to Rebekah tomorrow.  She wanted a care package, but first, an extended power outage got in the way, then a new furnace-A/C, then it was this week and it seemed silly to pay to send cookies and banana bread that would be well on their way to stale by the time she got them, when we're going to see her Sat.  Right call?  Don't know.  I worry that I should have sent them anyway because it's always fun to get a package in the mail, right?  Maybe I just have too much time to worry about things.
• Speaking of too much to worry about.  In all his awesomeness, Jason offered to help with the transportation to or from college this weekend (Jacob & Julianna are going to visit Rebekah for 24 hours to celebrate Sibs weekend, if you missed it).  I'm completely torn about taking him up on it.  On one hand, it would be lovely to have a little more time alone together Sunday.  On the other hand, I hate to impose, it's 3 1/2 hours of driving, plus he'll spend some time down there, and I know he has his own family obligations.  Additionally, I feel a little bit like Mark and I *should* be the ones to pick them up and hear all about their adventure.  What do you think?  Obsessing for nothing?  Pick them up ourselves.  Let go, he offered and it's only a couple of additional hours?  Can't decide.
• Laundry.  I have laundry to do, only yesterday I was bad and didn't fold the load when it was done and I'm dragging my heels about dealing with that.  :(
• Julianna has the first of 3 dance audition classes tonight.  They're auditioning to see if they'll be moved up to a more intensive (and more expensive and time consuming) higher level of ballet.  She wants it so badly.  I'm hoping that she gets it.  I'm hoping she's at peace if she doesn't get it.  I'm hoping if she does get it we'll figure out a way to pay for it.
• Taxes.  Complications.  FAFSA.  *sigh*
• I may or may not have pink eye.  My eye's running and a little itchy, although that's dissipating.   It's really bothering me though.  A few days ago it was my other eye, which leads me to think it's not pink eye.  I actually think I have some kind of allergy or cold that's manifesting itself in my eyes, but whatever it is, I wish it would go away now!!
• When Mark first came to the company he works for now, he had a lovely boss.  Truly a very nice man, with a very nice wife.  We rented their condo in Hilton Head a few years ago, they rent it out very inexpensively and give the renters they know the key to special closets (and laundry) and all kinds of perks.  I spent a good half hour or so a couple of nights ago talking with her about renting it this year.  She told me all the changes she had made, not in a braggy way, just in the way of someone who's doing her best to keep up her property and make it nice for people.  She truly was a lovely woman.  Was.  She never woke up yesterday.  It's so unspeakably sad, and it's just left a pall over everything.  It's so scary how fast your life can change--everything can shift in an instant and you never see it coming.
• I'm still obsessing thinking about what to do tomorrow with Mark.  I know I should not put too many expectations on this time, yet as it's never happened before and it's likely to be a long time until it happens again, I want it to be perfect.  No pressure.  :)
• Well, I have meals that need planned, grocery lists that need written, beds that need changed, cookies that need baked, children that need attention, floors that need cleaned, furniture that needs dusting, and bathrooms that need cleaned.  Yeah, pretty sure not all of that is going to happen.  :p 

Hope you all have a lovely, and blessedly normal, week.