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Apr. 14th, 2010 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sublimatedangelToday I got to go to more elementary school assemblies. I kind of adore them in that way that I like dorky things. The first one was to watch Alex get awarded his "Exceptional Reader" award, which made me all proud-mommy-moment of course. Grandma Beth is down from Canada for a week and was able to join us as well. The 4th/5th grade cheerleaders were amusingly terrible and the 6th/7th graders were a bit better. Long assembly as the older grades were doing honor roll, so looooots of kids going up on stage to get awards. Cute, though. Nate had to do some work afterwards, but Beth & I hung out in Alex's classroom (always fun for me) and then went to another assembly - School is Cool! with yoyo shenanigans! Had to go early to put Ry down for his nap, but was impressed by the yoyo tricks I got to see.
Lunch with Beth & Trudy, with Alex in a sulky mood. Beth took him for the afternoon (we'll get him back after dinner) and I really hope his attitude improved. I called around trying to find a tax specialist who handles estates (HA! It is to laugh!) because I am a horrid, horrid girl who procrastinated on handling my mom's taxes even though I knew I really needed to take care of it sooner. So, uh. Bad me. May have found someone (cross fingers). Went to the IEP meeting for Alex to figure out what we're doing in terms of school and the special education program. Had to leave partway through (Nate stayed) to meet with potential tax person. Discovered I had gathered documents for 2008, ugh. Did what we could and then I returned for the last bit of meeting. Ryan was really cranky over being late for naptime and having a crazy day with lots of boring stuff for him. On the bright side, feel like it was a good meeting and that positive things resulted, so. Uh, yay.
Ryan's sleeping, Nate's dropping off his laptop to be shipped back for repair, and then we need to figure out dinner (probably just go out), get Alex back, and then I've got to try to find current tax stuff in the disorganized mountains of paperwork madness at both my own home and my mom's house... no, really :( At some point, the tax person is supposed to call with more information/reassurance/commitment for the project. I kinda want a bubble bath... and a strong drink... and a week's vacation... but ya know, gotta get stuff done. And I can't even really complain, it's my own fault for waiting til the last minute and not getting this taken care of sooner. Thankfully I have a fantastic husband and two wonderful (if moody) boys to help buoy my spirit, and honestly, it'll be a relief to get it over and done with instead of hanging over my head. I can't wait to be done with all this estate mess. Figuring out the selling of the house will be the next big headache, and then the worst should be done with. Still riding the waves of grief and depression, but with less deadlines, eh?
Lunch with Beth & Trudy, with Alex in a sulky mood. Beth took him for the afternoon (we'll get him back after dinner) and I really hope his attitude improved. I called around trying to find a tax specialist who handles estates (HA! It is to laugh!) because I am a horrid, horrid girl who procrastinated on handling my mom's taxes even though I knew I really needed to take care of it sooner. So, uh. Bad me. May have found someone (cross fingers). Went to the IEP meeting for Alex to figure out what we're doing in terms of school and the special education program. Had to leave partway through (Nate stayed) to meet with potential tax person. Discovered I had gathered documents for 2008, ugh. Did what we could and then I returned for the last bit of meeting. Ryan was really cranky over being late for naptime and having a crazy day with lots of boring stuff for him. On the bright side, feel like it was a good meeting and that positive things resulted, so. Uh, yay.
Ryan's sleeping, Nate's dropping off his laptop to be shipped back for repair, and then we need to figure out dinner (probably just go out), get Alex back, and then I've got to try to find current tax stuff in the disorganized mountains of paperwork madness at both my own home and my mom's house... no, really :( At some point, the tax person is supposed to call with more information/reassurance/commitment for the project. I kinda want a bubble bath... and a strong drink... and a week's vacation... but ya know, gotta get stuff done. And I can't even really complain, it's my own fault for waiting til the last minute and not getting this taken care of sooner. Thankfully I have a fantastic husband and two wonderful (if moody) boys to help buoy my spirit, and honestly, it'll be a relief to get it over and done with instead of hanging over my head. I can't wait to be done with all this estate mess. Figuring out the selling of the house will be the next big headache, and then the worst should be done with. Still riding the waves of grief and depression, but with less deadlines, eh?
