?? "Pampered" Chef ??

Thanks for the reminder! After tonight I could use the reminder to breath...in.....uummmm.....oh yeah......out! I had a Pampered Chef party tonight. I was certainly not pampered tonight. It turns out the P.C. lady is one of Eric's friends' wife from out at Ropers (the dance club I met Eric). She asked to bring her two daughters, and of course I said yes. I remember what it was like, sometimes I didn't know what to do with Cody when I had a show to do. Well, we had seen Dave (Eric's friend) at a store about two weeks prior to tonight, and was talking about unruly (hellion) kids. He had mentioned his three, or four year old daughter was a handful, and we agreed that we knew what that was like, and that our four year old (Sam) was a challenge as well. Well................the two Hellion's hit it off right away, and double handily trashed the basement,( toys, and a dozen chocolate muffins later, oh and some how paint got spilled on the carpet down there in the mix of things too), they ransacked the bedroom upstairs, malled Whyett (the poor kid will probably always be afraid of little girls) ate allllll the strawberries (that were for the desert for that night), and most of the frozen blueberries. That's just what I managed to see. In spite of all that, and cleaning, and organizing for two days straight, I thought I appeared like I had IT all together ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hah ahha ha ahah ah aha aha haa ahha hahah hahaha hah!!!! The Good and most Merciful Lord had some humbling to do that night at my house, oh yeah, some good old fashion HUMBLING.

So it starts when Cody says to me "Can I just tell them one joke? Please!!! I nervously stand in the back so i can cue him to stop at anytime (I know 11 year old humor) first one... borderline, then he sneaks two more in, I shew him of his stage, where he is laughing at his jokes before hes finished, then comes the loud screaming from downstairs. They are the kind of screams kids find them selves in, that must pump extra adrenaline into there blood, because they are getting more shrill by the second, and they don't stop. Everyone looks at each other and then at me as if to say are you going to go down there to tame the wild beasts? I just shake my head and give a look of defeat, because I know that even if I were to go down there they would not stop, and my screaming at them to stop would just intensify them on more...................So the screaming subsides as I finally walk to the top of the stairs. I think OK maybe I don't have to go down. Then I hear a faint crying, and think that does not sound like mine.........maybe it will go away............nope its getting louder, so I say to Reagan (the P.C.lady) that cry isn't mine. She rushes over to the stairs as her daughter comes up with ....and of course.......a bloody nose. Instantly Cody runs down stairs demanding an explanation from Sam. Aaron's yelling from down stairs that he punched her in the nose on purpose. Reagan's in the bathroom trying to stop the bleeding, and so I trudge down stairs for Sam. I asked Sam what happened.......he admitted to hitting her and climbs the stairs to his time out spot with out a word(which is not like Sam, he fights time out with every breath in his body, and he has a lot of breath) . I get up there and tell him to apologize and go to his room till things calm down. You can tell as guest are filing out the door the party is over, (as I am swearing off these kind of functions at my house forever) I tell them good night, thanks for coming to my party..... (to the show!!) and humbly shut the door, and rush to help her clean up and pack her things. She must have wanted to get her two girls to safer ground, because she was ready to go when I came into the kitchen, she had packed her dirty things into her bag, she left, I shut the door confident that I will never hold a home (disaster) party again.

Just for the record it was a total accident what happened with her nose. Sam just got confused and thought that he must have done it on purpose, because of how his older brothers were acting. But that didn't come out until later, after she was gone. So truly....... to heck with trying to appear like I have it all together!!!!! I will probably never have it together, or even come close to appearing that way. :0) oh well. Going to bed, must sleep now. Heidi