panic panic panic

With Vegas coming up on us fast, I'm beginning to go into panic mode! We leave this Thursday but I feel like I have too much to do. I have many lists going at the moment. To-do lists. To-buy lists. Medication lists. Schedule lists. Food lists. (J is so picky, I have to clue in family or they may think he's starving!) We need to make keys, get dog records to board them, write notes for school, write medical consents etc etc. Feels never ending.

And then there is me. Every time I think about leaving, I get nervous. Nervous about leaving my kids for 4 nights when I've never left them even for 12 hours. (Yes, you read that right. Not once in 6 years!) Nervous about dying in a fiery crash on my birthday. (I hate to fly) Nervous that my kids will drive everyone insane or be totally distraught at our absence. Luckily my parents have agreed to take some days and my sister and BIL the nights... But 4 days is a lot of my kids to take. I hope I don't arrive home to find the adults rocking in the corners mumbling. I have friends who have offered to help entertain if the fam should need a drinking/numbing break...LOL! So I guess I SHOULD feel at ease.

Right?

And then there is the worry that while my hard working hubby is off playing in his hockey tourney, that I'll gamble us out of house and home and we'll be forced to live in a box down by the river when we return. (only half kidding. i heart slots) One of the other hockey wives took on a second job last Nov JUST to save mula to gamble with!! Luckily, another of the hockey wives is a photog obsessive like myself and hates gambling so I'll have some one to roam around and shoot the city with. That should help contain me a bit :)