Lemonade, lemonade, chant with me...

This was my mantra for the day. Lemonade. When life gives you lemons, like finally being on time for an appointment for the oldest 4 kids and my car broke down a block from the school where I need to grab Ashlyn. No problem-

Lemonade: I call Cody who finds someone to jump my car. They live here and they're home so it shouldn't take longer than 15 min. and I can still make it on time to the appointment. Great!

Lemon: I sit for 25 minutes for help to arrive and his car isn't big enough to charge my behemoth B.M.W. and I wait, and wait, and wait. Kennedy is screaming her ever loving head off and the other 2 girls are fighting. I feel like a complete idiot sitting there with my hood up and nothing happening. If I just had a burly man in front poking around in there that's one thing but to be a girl sitting there for 25 min. with her hood up messing with a cell phone inside the car, yeah, idiot.

Lemonade: I call the pediatric clinic and they reschedule for Friday. I find suckers in the diaper bag and proceed to fling them at the very very back where Kaci is until she finally catches one. Note to self, find the other six before the other kids do. Kennedy's little bum fits perfect on my steering wheel and we play games so she finally calms down.

Lemon: Jeremy's teacher calls wondering why I haven't picked him up from town, where he was at swimming lessons, to take him to his appointment. Another 1/2 hour goes by and still I'm stuck. I'm stuck at the post office. If I were stuck at Wal-Mart or in Hawaii my story wouldn't be so bad but the post office people. I guess I could have registered to vote- again.

Lemonade: A very nice gentleman I know just happened to be getting his mail in a huge diesel pickup and asked me if I needed a jump. The other very nice man who's been trying to help from the beginning comes back and gets in my car because I'm afraid I'll screw something up so I just sit back and watch my lovely vehicle start.

Lemon: I wasn't able to get to town so I have nothing to make for dinner, my package didn't get mailed (wrong post office, that's an even longer story), the kids missed their appointment, and I needed to borrow a pair of pinking sheers to finish my fishy project and they reside with someone 20 min. away. Not to mention about 50 other things I had planned just got de-planned, un-planned, ex-planned?

Lemonade: This kids were overjoyed, no ecstatic to find out that they missed their flu shots! I haven't seen a happier bunch since last Christmas. I almost hate to tell them we get to do it again on Friday, almost ;o). I do have some cans of dinner, oh how the family will love that. Not to mention because I won't be spending all evening shopping with the furious 5 I can show you this, my finished ribbon wands I said I would post yesterday. Note to self- small dowels are your friend.

So there you have it. A little glimpse into why my blog is called everyday chaos.