Teens ‘n’ Taxis – Life in the Fast Lane
When you have teenagers, it seems you become a taxi or shuttle service every day. All it takes is 2 events going on to get everyone in a scramble! Add in regular family doings & you have a recipe for chaos. 
Different schedules of picking up & taking to places can make you cuckoo! There are 4 trips a day to/from school! I’m finding more & more I have to write down exactly what I have to do each day & in what order. Yikes!
The last 2 weeks have been a flurry. We celebrated Valentine’s Day not too long after my last entry. Then got ready for a visit from a forum gardening friend from AZ. As my gardens are a jungle, nothing I could do would make them look anything but half decent. The recent rains we’ve had made grass & weeds shoot up everywhere! Hubby was nice enough to weed whack the paths for me. 
We had a great visit! It was wonderful to meet Gay for the 1st time. I’m hoping to one day visit her succulent garden!
It wasn’t in the plan, but I ended up putting a “toothpick” fence between us & the neighbors to the north. The Wall is coming, but this will hopefully keep the woman off our property & her hands out of my garden until I can get it installed!! So these stakes I drove into the ground in a line have no connecting wood & look like toothpicks to me. LOL
We are prepping one son’s room to put a closet back in (taken out when that room was my office). Also prepping our room to install a new window. This will be #2 of 15! We’ve been waiting for the rainy days to be over ~nice as it’s been to have them, it holds up the works, if you know what I mean.
Started looking at houses for sale, as it seems signs have popped up all over the place from folks going into foreclosure. It’s a sad thing that’s happening across the country. Many areas in CA have been hit hard. It seems there were many folks who had variable rates on their mortgages & those started to rise, making payment amounts out of their range. So, many hours spent in the past week or so have been online plus driving around looking & checking into what’s what for a possible purchase down the road. We even went to an open house Saturday to check out the floor plan & square footage. So many details to consider!
I’m in the middle of preparing our tax returns. Seems there’s more phone calls & things to get in the mail than I have time for…but I’m working on it! Many of my succulents need to be repotted. I had a load of “cart jumpers” too…you know, the plants that jump in your cart & beg you to take them home?!
Cart jumpers
Just this past Thursday, we started a new bowling league. I’m secretary/treasurer again, so there’s a heap of paperwork to tackle before Thurs. rolls around again. Still many teams in it, so it looks to be fun! I’m still working on the last of the awards from last season to get into the USBC. Oh, more tourneys coming up…have to get entries for those in! Never a dull moment, I always say!
One teen will be taking the SAT for college this Saturday. I have a bowling tourney on Monday & son has one (Pepsi Tournament in Los Angeles area) the following weekend. He will take his driver’s test next Friday, so may be alone on the road before we know it. Oh boy! Kids are growing up fast!
I wonder if there’s any place I can buy some Time in a Bottle?!? I’d better get a move on & hit My List!
