Too Much To Do?

The kids and I realized a few days ago that we only have a little over a week before we plan to leave Colorado and head south to spend time in Arizona with our older daughters. How did the "move date" sneak up on us so quickly?! Suddenly we look at our mostly unscheduled days and panic that there are too many things we still want to do or see with not enough time to fit everything in!!

I was thinking about taking an intro to kayaking class here (in the community center pool). We want to take Randy down to Colorado Springs to share Garden of the Gods with him. We still want to visit the Natural History Museum---after all, we get in free with our pass from the Field Museum in Chicago. My dad says we need to visit the visitor center of the Renewable Energy Labs here in Golden. And on and on goes the list.

So...it's decision making time. What things are most important to us? What places will we skip (at least for this visit)? Which people will we spend time with? What library books will we finish reading and which ones will be returned...unread? We also realize we need to do another mini-purge of belongings. We have gathered more clothes, more books, more papers, more STUFF in the two months we have been here. Which of those things do we keep? What things do we get rid of?

Living in a small space makes it so much more obvious how quickly "stuff" accumulates. Living in a movable home makes it more difficult to put down "roots" in the first place...and makes us realize how many connections we have already made in the relatively short time we have been here.

We enjoy the freedom that comes with a mostly-open calendar. But this week we will be busy. Time here is running out...