Life�s been a little slow the past few days. Not much been going on, I�ve just been trying like a mofo to get my house cleaned up for Jackie�s birthday party on Saturday. Already, I am stressed and I worry because that�s what I�m good at. I don�t even know how I�m going to get my Grandma�s house cleaned this weekend. I�ll have to fit that in somewhere.
Oh, and I have no one to pick Grandma up for the party on Saturday. I�m going to feel so bad if Grandma has to miss Jackie�s birthday party. However, I cannot run out and clean her house, go get some groceries, tidy up my house and stay home and wait for people who are arriving early and go back to Grandma�s house and get her and then later take her back. There�s no time. I�m 25 minute from her house, by my route.
And Ms. Terry and Lewis are staying the night Saturday night, so I can�t really leave for an hour and a half because that would be rude.
Maybe early Saturday morning I can get to her house to clean it, but I have to haul butt so that I can get back here and meet Lisa at 12. She�s going to help me get ready for the party. God bless Lisa. If anyone can throw a party, it�s her.
I have to do laundry too. And pick up a few things from the grocery store. And worry that Rene� will forget to pick up sandwiches for the party. And that someone that Jackie invited from her class will get lost or that none of the kids she invited from school will show up and she�ll remember the birthday that no friends from school showed up forever.
And that nobody in my family will show up. That would really suck. I invited Aunt Abby, Tommy, Big Jackie, Uncle Dan and Little bit. I tried to invite Uncle Nat but every time I call his number it asks me for a mailbox number and no matter what I punch in, it�s not right.
Sigh.
I also invited Ms. Terry and Lewis. And of course Lisa and Jake. My neighbors Kylie and Willie and their two boys.
I talked to my sister Renee last night. She is so excited about coming to visit this month. I�m excited too. I�ll be so excited to have her and the kids and Tommy here for the week that I�ll be oblivious to the kicking and screaming of our children. I�ll not mind when my 1-� year old nephew gets into something or breaks something I really love, especially my candles. I�ll smile when I do laundry and notice that not only did the girls wear their own clothes, they also wore a lot of Jackie�s (which means more laundry) and stained them even though I laid down the law yesterday that there was to be no wearing of each other�s clothes. (It happens every time.)
I�ll grin like a maniac when I have to yell at Jackie for the 1400th time to share with her cousins!!!
However, and this is special, I also know I�ll wish my cigarette was a crack-pipe when I walk into the kitchen to find every surface covered with peanut butter, butter, sugar, jelly, ketchup, mustard, pickle relish, pancake syrup, dish soap, dishwashing liquid, hand soap, coffee and my personal favorite, flour. This is a by-product of Jackie�s �experiments�. She does her experiments when she has company. It�s something special to mark the occasion and it always sends me through the roof. There are threats of disciplinary action on my part and tears on her part, but it always happens again.
Really, I do love it when family visits. But it�s a circus at Casa de Lissy whenever they come. Truthfully, I wouldn�t trade it for the world. My sis and me always have a great time.
12:46 pm - March 02, 2005
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