A Cost of Procrastination

Once again, due to lack of organization, I'm paying the price.  Since Dad had his heart attack things have been a bit busy.  Typical really of any month in our house.  I had gotten "lazy".  Mail had been stacked on the kitchen table along with a lot of other items.  I THOUGHT I had been pulling out the bills and putting them in the bill box.  Therefore, the only mail on the table should have been magazines and junk mail.  In an effort to clean off the table I moved the pile to my bedroom and knew I had a bill in the pile.  this week I decided to clean up the pile and catch up on bills. I THOUGHT the consumers energy bill was in the pile.  No bill except propane.  I go to the computer and do not see a check number next to my consumers entry so I think I have lost the bill and will be late.  I write out ANOTHER check to consumers and mail it out yesterday.  Today another check cleared to consumers that I hadn't entered into the register.  Huge sigh. guess I'm ahead but would have liked to have had that money for another thing!

Hard to believe my son is now a high school graduate.  I am very thankful, however, that the openhouse is over!  We may be eating chips and cheese along with tacos for a very long time though!  Good thing it's food we love.   Now to focus on finishing out the youngest ones schoolwork and getting everything together to mail in to the college for the one who just finished.  Then, there's the making of lists for everything to pack him off to college.  No, the graduation wasn't the tear jerker....it's the driving home after leaving him 5 hours away that is going to do me in!   The time has come for momma to drop the apron strings of control and let him sink or swim.  I'm hoping that we have taught him how to swim well enough but I think, just in case, we'll be buying a GPS for him before he leaves for college.  After all, I want to make sure he can make his way back home!