Today was the day of “trying to wrap my head around the new school schedule that begins next week.” Last night was the night of “nearly hyperventalating in panic at the thought of all the things that our family needs to accomplish in the next 9 months.” Fortunately it occured to me that in order to get everything done I just need to put everything on the calendar and worry about it when I get there. Now is not the time to be fretting over shipping books. Now is the time to be making sure that there is a book to ship. So I decided that I’m not allowed to stress over anything beyond September 30. One month’s worth of things is plenty.
Tomorrow I’ll be going school shopping. Last year I was very smug in the fact that I didn’t have to do any school shopping because I’d been keeping track of clothing inventories and planning ahead by going to the thrift store. This year I forgot to plan ahead. Now I’m wondering why I didn’t do some of this back in June when I was fretting over having a long summer full of nothing. Whatever the reason I didn’t get it done and tomorrow I must shop. I’ll be starting at the thrift store because money is tight again. It does that when we go a whole year without releasing a new book.
School starts on Tuesday. I have many things to do to get ready.