LaLaGirl – Twinfinite Chaos! Parenting Multiples and Dealing with Autism

8 a.m.

Things Completed Today

• Grouchy, sleepy kids awakened and dressed
• Stripped bed of peepee sheets (I swear, every other day, somebody pees in their bed. I know the odds go up for us, since we have four little kids, but for fuck’s sake, man! Can I catch a break over here?)
• Load of wash started
• Breakfast made (Honeynut Cheerios, toasted bagel, and milk) for everyone
• Lunches packed for the 2 in Kindergarten
• Medicine given to everyone dripping snot out of their face
• Vitamins dispensed to all
• Coffee made (and consumed)
• Breakfast dishes thrown into dishwasher
• Load of wash transferred to dryer, new load started
• Emails read and answered (priorities, right?)

Things to Do in the Next Hour

• Run dishwasher, listen to plates clink together for next half hour
• Glare at gigantic pile of unfolded laundry
• Do a once-over of the pantry and fridge, and figure out what I need from Wal-Mart, besides wipes and pullups and Capri Suns
• Take world’s fastest shower, since even at 3 1/2, two little twin girls can get into lots of mischief while my head is under water
• Drag my husband’s hamper into the laundry room, since he seems to think he should have clean socks and underwear too

Things to Do at Wal-Mart

• Drive around in circles, possibly stalk someone for a close parking spot
• Curse Wal-Mart for not carrying Home Run Pizza
• Wonder aloud how it is that a grocery store can sell pickled eggs in gallon jars, but no Gorgonzola cheese. No wonder Cindy Adams is talkin’ shit about Denver being a cow town!
• Purchase new box of wipes, since my mother-in-law inexplicably threw ours away. Huh? She’s lived here off and on for five years, and doesn’t realize I buy ginormous refill packages and reuse the same box over and over until the lid falls off?
• Buy new pair of cheap tennies for Pablo, since he has lost his and I can’t find them. How do you lose a pair of shoes? And how is it that I can’t FIND THEM? I think he must have taken them off outside during the garage sale and someone made off with them! They’re just…gone!

Things to Do Before School Gets Out

• Fold some of that damned laundry
• Find something cute to wear to the Rocky Mountain Blogger Bash downtown. Whee!
• Fix dinner. (Yep, I usually start dinner preparation between 1 and 2, and finish it up about 3 when the kids get home from school. I don’t care if we’re eating lukewarm food at 5:30 that’s been sitting in a warm oven for several hours. I’d rather spend Devil Hour drinking a cocktail on the patio while the kids tear the place up on their tricycles)
• Put on REAL MAKEUP. If I’m going to experience the madness of downtown Denver during the DNC, I’m going to do so with actual eyeliner and mascara and not just tinted moisturizer.

Things to Do When We Get Home from School

• Set out jammies and pullups so my mother-in-law can put the kids to bed easily, while we’re out getting our drink on in LoDo
• Change into cuter shoes. No Crocs outside of my “I’m a frazzled twin mommy driving a van! See my cup of Starbucks and my canvas shopping bags?” life.
• Charge camera battery
• Wait patiently for Pauly to get home from work so we can get the hell out of dodge and figure out exactly how to get downtown

Okay, then. Guess I’m off!

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And so ends The Mother of All Garage Sale Weekends. I can’t bitch too much about it, since I didn’t really do ANYTHING for the garage sale beyond keeping the children in the house and occasionally refilling Paul’s glass of iced tea while he sat out in the hot sun, trying to talk people into buying our crap. I think we made a little money, and we got rid of whole bunch of stuff I was ready to set fire to, so I guess it’s all good!

Paul’s buddy Will dropped by yesterday and showed us an interview he did recently for the Denver Post about the housing market in Denver. He arrived right in the middle of Garage Sale Chaos, and I must say, it was kind of funny seeing his BMW among all the hoopty wrecks driven by the people perusing our driveway full of crap. He gave us some tickets for the Denver Young Democrats DNC Kickoff Party so we checked that out last night. It was fun! I’d never been to Bar Standard, but holy cats, it was this gigantic place that went on forever. We kept finding a door here or a stairway there that would lead to a whole separate area of the club, with another bar, and another DJ, and another row of cozy little seating areas. I think we counted six different DJs in various areas!

We weren’t that interested in the political part of it, but it was great to see some old friends. Of course, we saw Francois and Alvin from 3 Deep Productions and Mario, better known as DJ Chonz – old friends of Paul’s from years and years ago, when he was a DJ and showed up at places like this with crates of records. Much different from nowadays, when everything’s digital!

We had to cut out early, at about 11:30 – hey, it was Sunday night! We had to get up at six today to take the kids to school! Still, lots of fun.

And that was pretty much our weekend! Kayley’s starting 8th grade today, so think good thoughts for her. Mallory has a cold and I’m praying she doesn’t get the other kids sick. I’m about to head out to the supermarket, because we’re out of coffee creamer. (Why, yes, my mother-in-law is here visiting. How did you know?) Have a super Monday!

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