Retreat Packing and Planning

I had this great post planned about packing and planning for a retreat. I think I'll revise it based on my experiences this week and what NOT do to.

Don't:

1. Get sick
2. Try to finish your first quilt show entry quilt the week before/day before it's due, necessitating more than one night of staying up past midnight and therefore contributing to the cold.
3. Plan a family weekend away the same weekend
4. Take your sewing machine in for servicing, fall in love with the idea of a new machine, and then spend the entire week with machine envy and obsessing over what you should and shouldn't buy.
5. Decide to take a day off to get everything done at home, and then not take it, you'll waste the weekend before the trip and put yourself even further behind.
6. Decide at the last minute to care about the cleanliness of your house, that's a recipe for disaster.
7. Have your husband have work problems such that you end up teaching Youth Group on a Tuesday night and doing the running around and planning associated with such an event.

Despite my week before the retreat issues I went and had a wonderful time. I can't say it was the most productive weekend ever, but it was a needed break and I'm so glad I had the opportunity to get away with friends and quilt.