In the Zone!

I am in the zone as far as getting ready to put our house on the market.  Now that school is done (sort of) I am filled with new energy to purge, pack and prepare to sell our house and move to Colorado.  Thank goodness that my feelings have changed.  Previously, I was lacking any energy to keep sustained attention to the huge task in front of us as long as I had all of these educational issues in front of me.  But now I feel single-minded, finally!  But now I am sick, bummer.  But we are painting, fixing, rearranging, and making many trips to Goodwill.  I am looking forward to living more simply, with far less clutter, hopefully, and with more purpose to what I am doing.  Caroline is a little bored right now but she can paint, so we keep handing her things to do.  Our house is already looking so much better and I will be sad to say good-bye to the beauty of a 70 year-old, classic Colonial, even if remodeling it killed us.  Someday I would love to have an old home again, with a giant wrap-around front porch and nine-foot ceilings and wainscoting, but for the next 10 years, at least, I just want something that has everything already done to it!  Parenting a bipolar child is enough work in and of itself!