Making a list

And checking it about 47 times. I have been carrying a spiral notebook with me for
::mumbling,blushing and sorta shuffling my feet:::
about four weeks. Every time something pops into my head about our outing, I write it down.

I have pages and pages of stuff. Grocery list, lists of craft supplies, lists of things I absolutely must not forget, actual photographs of all the little hiding places I discovered on my first trip up there to walk the property and a tentative schedule (which is starting to get etched in stone... finally.)

Even with something to help me sleep, I find myself waking up and writing it down.
Last night, I wrote at least seven things on a page. I can even mostly decipher it this morning.

::sigh:::

No one is putting this pressure on me, either. If we went up the mountain for the weekend with nothing but some food and some games, everyone would still have a good time. The girls invent things to do, they laugh, they run around the property, they have a great time together.

It's just that I want everything to be perfect. It's our last outing, and I want them all to have good memories of it.

You're all going to have memories of the whole thing, too, aren't you?
Isn't it nice of me to share my obsession?

And it ain't over yet. I'll be posting at least once more about it with more details of what we're going to be doing. I figure that at least one of you will be able to use at least one idea.

It's a public service! Yeah, that's it. It's not obsession at all!!