Well, my mom MIGHT be visiting us here March 30th!!! Yeah! She’s not been here yet and it will be wonderful to finally show her where I live now. There are a couple things happening back in IL that might still make it so she can’t come, but we’ll see. Dad sounded hopeful when I spoke to him Sunday afternoon.
So this week I’m going to proceed like she’s coming for sure. Her visit should offer me some really good incentive to finish spring cleaning too! This is kind of a busy week for me, so I’m going to have to eek out time wherever I can to accomplish my cleaning chores.
This is how this week is shaping up:
Monday: grocery shopping & CVS (there are special sales I’m hitting at both places today in order to stock-up on things), spring clean kitchen & pantry (and possibly finish spring clean in living room), 2 loads of laundry (start to finish), pack 7 gallons of syrup into pint containers for sale at the church on 29th. Evening: attend third lecture in series on life & times of St. Paul and help Dave collect sap from at least one location.
Tuesday: Deliver 10-15 gallons of syrup to a restaurant in MASS (1.5 hours drive time each way), regular cleaning in bathroom and spring clean our bedroom.
Wednesday: Home Only Day!! Spring clean upstairs & downstairs hallways, stairwell and organize some stuff in attic, if time permits clean office/guest room. And get laundry completely caught up. (Our hallways & stairwell have killer amounts of woodwork so those projects could take me several hours…)
Thursday: Finish any leftover cleaning projects, Bible Study at 1PM.
Friday: Spend morning with Dave helping with maple syrup production (this could be our last weekend because some trees are starting to bud.) Spend afternoon with sister-in-law between picking up niece & nephew from school then taking nephew to choir. Home by 5PM.
Saturday: Maple syrup production.
Sunday: Mass, sell maple syrup for church fundraiser at pancake breakfast between masses. (Dave tapped all the giant maples on the church property making 7 gallons of syrup to use as a fundraiser for a missions trip some folks at church at taking to Jamaica. We’ll be selling “church syrup” in pint containers so hopefully lots of parishioners will take advantage of buying syrup. ) And then finish maple syrup production potentially for the season.
Kind of roughly, that is the plan for the week. I’ll have finished spring cleaning the house on top of having the house “mom ready” if she’s able to come out.
Over the weekend, I made four dinner’s worth of meatballs and froze them in individual dinner packets. I need to update my 21 Freezer Meals post because I’m further along with that project than I previously thought.
