I know the blogs have been lacking. I’m sorry for that. I’m truly doing all I can, and I know NO ONE is putting pressure on me to pump out stellar posts except myself. There isn’t a mountain of fun things to talk about, unfortunately. I’ve tried to share the positives we’ve had in the previous days, with little stories and pictures here and there.
To turn towards some down moments, I’ll tell you our band was booked for a really fun gig this coming weekend that we had to cancel. It SUCKS. We were sought out, and after I completely forgot about the inquiry, they continued to pursue our band. We were even getting paid. So it SUCKED to cancel that.
While I pout about that a little, I’m feeling inclined to start making some lists of camp stuff. Our lake opens in about three and a half weeks, and we hope very much to get out there and get the place organized and set up before the kids join us over one of the following weekends.
I wish I had taken better inventory but I didn’t. I think I left all of our linens out there, which was stupid, because they’ll ALL need to be washed. But we can even do that there.
We will bring a bunch of stuff to live in the fridge. Some drinks, condiments, etc. Clean up ANY signs of ANY rodent activity, of which we had NONE last year! We will get the bikes all pumped up. Get the batteries put back into the golf cart. We’ll bring the kayak down to the water. There is a lot to do out there that I’m sure I haven’t even thought of yet. But we have lots of things to bring that have been accumulating in a box or two, and they need to find a home in their new home!
If I was SO organized, I’d be super happy if we could get material up there so we could complete the deck! You might remember last year, we built a beautiful patio with a nice cover so Brady would have a confident area of level ground. It turned out SO lovely.
As the season wore on, however, we really wished we had built the awning over the entire deck. That one small bit of the deck that it did cover was just the stairs, and then the kids would sit on the stairs, making it really hard to access them, and impossible for Brady to get in and out!
So if we could get super organized before then, that would be IDEAL.
I know there are other things I can’t think of. These are my current thoughts on the subject. Priority one is just getting out there.
I have sooooo many other things to figure out even sooner than that, though.
I need to get prices for underground sprinklers.
I need to make some very important phone calls that I’m nervous about and can’t quite talk about publicly yet.
I need to to get everything sorted out for my farmers market table starting towards the end of May.
I would like to acquire another water dispenser with hot and cold functions for the lake. We actually found we needed hot water a lot last season. That plus we had the ice maker going constantly. A dispenser might solve everything, plus free up some space! Our home dispenser is pretty old and rattly (read: LOUD) at this point, so maybe we’ll get a new one for home and use our current one at the lake? I’m not sure yet. But I need to decide.
And I really want to write up a bit of a schedule for lake stuff. Last year, Cher diligently came over and helped with unloading, laundry, food prep, and anything under the sun that needed doing to get us back out the door. You name it, she helped!! She is still happy and willing to help us, but I would be thrilled to have a plan in place where the kids pitched in more. But that might just come naturally as we start actually getting to the lake.
There is a lot to look forward to. I am incredibly fortune to have so many positives in the upcoming months 💜 Thank you Lord for giving us the lake, and for bringing us through a YEAR of chemo!! Last year, Brady took chemo at the lake. None of that this season 💜 Praise the Lord!