90 minutes… 1 meal… 9 people… 3 kids… 1 crazy birthday party
90 minutes… 1 meal… 9 people… 3 kids… utter craziness.
So tonight was my brother-in-law’s 35th birthday party. And it was like a b-day party gone bad! (Read chaos, crazy, funny, hilarious, etc.) First, the day started with Josh’s wife, Aich, getting sick (read vomiting) profusely this morning… so that kind of set the day in motion. 2nd, Josh has had to work all through the night on a job site for his painting company, so he didn’t get to sleep until 8:30 am this morning!
Enter “The Kids!” (Read Holy terrors!) Will 6 1/2, Drew 4, & Zach almost 3. In the course of a 90 minute meal (at my mother-in-law’s house, by the way) the kids proceded to: 1) Spill ice cream 2) cry about ice cream 3) eat each other’s ice cream 4) jump on the couches 5) fall onto the couches 6) kick each other while jumping on the couches 7) spill ice cream on the couches 8) get 3 time-outs 9) watch a VeggieTales 10) sing happy birthday (which was really cute by the way) 11) open the presents while taking them to Josh 12) drop the presents 13) cry about not playing with the presents 14) fight with each other 15) accuse the other 2 of “doing weird stuff” with their dessert, and 16) throw a strawberry stem into grandpa’s coffee.
90 minutes… 1 meal… 9 people… 3 kids… utter craziness.
Enter the “Adults.” In the same 90 minute birthday celebration the adults proceded to: 1) Show up late (I won’t say who) 2) consume 2 liters of Diet Mountain Dew (that was Josh and I) 3) Consume 8 Authentic Mexican Tacos 4) 5 Tostatos 5) 6 Shrimp & Guacamole Mexican Somethings (that were delicious by the way) 6) 2 pounds of chips 7) 3 kinds of salsa 8) 1 chocolate / peanut butter cake (that was shipped from my sister-in-law’s mom in Texas) 9) open presents 10) remember the first 15 years of Josh’s childhood 11) hear how he stole a car 12) Hear how he got caught 13) send kids to 3 time outs 14) keep my sister-in-law from throwing up again 15) & learn that the “gray stationwagon” that Josh stole actually had a nickname that he couldn’t share with us!(wow… somethings a brother-in-law just doesn’t want to know.)
90 minutes… 1 meal… 9 people… 3 kids… utter craziness
What is it about family… even though it’s crazy and chaotic… it’s a memory… & we love every minute of it, don’t we?!?
Just a little slice of my life…
The cool thing about seeing other people’s slices is that on the “magic shell” coating, they all look so different from each other. Once you take a bite, however, you see that, for some reason, each has a very similar taste. I think that’s because of the good job that God did imbedding his fatherly desires in “us”. It is so glorious to know that if we bite into our “life slice” and come across an anchovy once and a while, He still allows us to taste a sweetness in it that doesn’t spoil the rest of the cake.
Hahahaha!! I couldn't have said it any better! And the funniest part was….you didn't exaggerate once!! I love our family….
Love,
Aich
(Um, yeah…..you could do a whole blog on the fact that your kids don't know me by any name but Aunt Aich…)