Pre-Vacation

While I am over the top jazzed to be heading out on vacation sometimes it seems almost like more work to go on vacation than it is worth, it never is more work than it is worth because I love vacation. In these days leading up to vacation I about go nuts. Seriously. It is such a slow process getting everything ready to go and getting people to fill in for me and making sure all my lesson plans are written and all that good jazz. I feel like I am currently the queen of the lists. I have lists for what I need while at the conference, I have lists of what I'll need in Disneyland, I have lists of what I need to run the half marathon, I have lists of lists it seems. Now the goal is to make it all fit under 50 pounds. This can be a serious challenge.

Slowly but surely it'll happen. Slowly but surely I'll weed through what I need versus what I would love to bring. Slowly but surely I will make it happen. There is a certain amount of excitement that goes along with packing as well as anticipation of the trip to come.




What do you always forget to pack?
Do you have any great packing tips?
Do you pack in a suitcase or in a soft sided bag?
Do you like to be able to carry everything on?

20 Chore Tuesday

Talk about a pre-vacation to-do list. I leave on Thursday for vacation and couldn't be more excited, I feel like it has been quite some time since I have been on vacation where the goal is to relax and doesn't have a purpose [going to a wedding, running a half marathon, moving a friend/family, visiting 10,000 family members].

My pre-vacation 20 chore Tuesday includes:

• ensure family faith journey is prepped for someone to fill in my place
• run off weekly handouts for family faith journey
• Camp V meeting at noon
• teach swimming lessons
• call one of my favorite people to wish her a happy birthday
• make my bed [seriously I love crawling into a made bed but hate making my bed every mornign and I massively got out of the habit of making my bed and am now slowly getting back into the habit of making it every day - yes, this seriously makes me sound like I am five and my mother is yelling at me to make my bed - which surprisingly my mother never ever ever cared if our beds were made]
• laundry
• run
• update my project life 366 2012 photobook
• empty sink of dishes that has built up [seriously how does this always happen, why can I not get in the habit of throwing the dishes in the dishwasher as soon as I use them]
• walk the dog
• buy Halloween candy to hand out tomorrow [I am way behind on this one, obviously]
• pull out suitcase to pack in
• start packing
• call cake woman for wedding and tell her we want to go with her [soooo many details for a wedding who knew]
• ball yarn/make sure I have the yarn I want to take on vacation
• update kindle - download a new book for vacation
• return books to library (books are due while I am on vacation and I refuse to get a late fee - small pat on the back - which seriously no one really cares about this - but for as long as I can remember I have never had a library late charge, which is a small miracle given how many books I check out of the library.)
• square away other details at work for while I'll be on vacation
• empty memory cards on my cameras for vacation (seriously who doesn't have a couple cameras that they plan on taking on vacation - oh yeah, most people - I have a dslr camera I plan on taking as well as a point & shoot)