Life of Chaos

Grampie came through town last week. So he got to see Eileen (well, the back of her as she constantly ran off to go play with her friends...), Edie, and the rest of us grown up kids that no one really cares if they see or not.


About two hours in on Friday night.. somewhere between us flying home from work to get Grampie and take him to school with us to get Eileen and David and I texting back and forth to figure out if Sissy was ALIVE since neither of us had heard from her in weeks (slight, just slight, exaggeration there..) and Bill leaving to get pizza but before I'd let him leave I asked for him to hook up the porch TV and Ryan coming in and out and Shannon and David texting to say (turns out she was indeed alive) they were stopping by and me calling in another pizza and Eileen going over to Bella's and me letting Bill know there were now two pizzas to get... 


Grampie looked at me and said: Is it always this chaotic?


My first thought was "what chaos?"..  I guess because, yes. It is always that chaotic. But I guess that these days, it isn't chaos, it's life. 


And while there are certainly days I wish I could just sit poolside or porchside and finish off a book.. I wouldn't have it any other way, than this way. This Life of Chaos.


sidebar: Lest anyone think I'm one of those Super Happy Perfect Never a Hair Out of Place Bubbly Everything ROCKS Moms... um. no. Ok, well - the hair part is true. I'm a tad obsessed with my hair. It does always look smashing. I have meltdowns and breakdowns.  I get totally irked or testy or exhausted. And oh mercy, if I forget to take/take too late my Happy Pill... shew clear a path!  But still, I wouldn't trade it. 


From Friday night to Sunday night.. we managed to have Sissy & David over. Have clean sheets for Grampie to sleep on. Get Eileen fed and to bed before midnight. Bill went to Target. Grampie off to house hunt. Me, Bill and Eileen off to Verizon store (where we encountered yet ANOTHER person who was intrigued by the Sox/Yankees marriage, and in fact, in one himself) and I finally finally finally got my iPhone.  Bill & Eileen off to get smoothies and a bday gift. Me off to Gym. All of us home to get ready for party. Shopping list off to Sissy. Go to party. Come home to Grampie and Sissy. Josh and Sarah come over to drop off Edie. Eileen goes off to Hayley's volleyball games. Marc & Megan come over and we all cookout and drool over Edie.  Josh and Sarah come back right after Eileen comes home; Edie out cold. Josh in slight shock at the sight of Eileen beebopping around the house at 10something pm. Up Sunday morning to see Grampie off. Get some chores done then I go off to run. Come home and Bill is off to Home Depot to get flowers and new pots (since our OTHER new ones blew away in a storm - and we have NOT A CLUE where they landed.. we're talking BIG pots here people!).  We get ready and head up to Jim & Judy's for a visit. Cookout. Head out to check the cows (betcha didn't expect to see THAT from me, didja?!), then pick strawberries. Head home. Off I go to Target, which is also known as a timewarp. I could swear it was maybe 6:30 when I got there. And all of a sudden it was 7:45. OMG. We still had cheesecake to make and kid to bathe and laundry to do and poster to make and dinner to eat and nails to paint. But hey -I got cute shoes for me and a cute skirt for Eileen. 


wait, what? cheesecake?
yes people. for some unknown reason, Eileen had been asking me since the prior Thursday to make one. and since I am mother of the year, I kept pushing her off, thinking she'd forget. I've been schooled people. She would NOT let the cheesecake go. So I found myself mixing away while she and Bill worked on the poster. Her healthy dinner of noodles with butter, followed by the graham cracker crust with cheesecake BATTER certainly cements my MOTY Award. (that was my way of giving her cheesecake for the night since I knew it wouldn't be finished baking any time soon...raw eggs be damned!).


Somehow, between Bill and I - and even Eileen - we managed to get the entire to-do list finished. well. we didn't get flowers planted. but they have at least been purchased. 


Tired yet? 
:)