Hi, friends! It’s May.
Every year May sneaks up on me. No matter how stressful the last May was, I always forget before May rolls around again, and then I am surprised by the amount of stuff that I suddenly need to do.
I should put a reminder in my calendar. “BEWARE MAY” or something like that, that pops up around April 25th or so.
May is the last month of school for the small, mobile ones. Which means there’s stuff like teacher gifts and a memory book for each child, plus one of their teachers is retiring, so there’s parties and gifts for that, and I’ve got to track down contact info for friends for playdates, and all that jazz. So much jazz.
And then there’s a birthday to be done too, which I am never on top of because of other things and the fact that it’s right after school gets out, and there is so much work that needs to be done for a child’s birthday, not the least of which is the contact info issue mentioned above, and I have definitely lost the phone number said child brought home to me that I needed.
There’s volunteer commitments, most of which circulate around said small, mobile ones, and so need to be done by the end of the school year as well. I am working on passing some of those off onto other parents, though, so hopefully that will be better in the future.
There’s summer plans that need finalizing. And trip preparation. Work stuff. Personal projects that frankly should have been done last month but didn’t get finished.
It’s the sort of month that makes you want to tear your hair out and run screaming and naked into the woods.
It’s fine, though. I’m fine. I just need to break things down and focus, and it will all, eventually and probably on time, get done.
Except maybe the birthday party.
Where did I put that phone number? Sigh.