Day 4 - Sunday

Posted by Jim on May 27, 2007

Sunday is the big BBQ day.

Breakfast is cereal.

Lunch we drive to P&S to get the tray then go to Ann’s. She says wait she will go to lunch with us. Eilis goes to help her carry stuff, and the baby is out in the truck. I tell Ann I will just pick up something. She says leave Eilis with her, they will go grab something. The baby and I go home, she sleeps in my arms, wakes up smiling and eats her chicken nuggets. Time to go to the part. Ann calls and says that someone bought a water slide, bring bathing suits for Eilis and the baby.

Here is where we have no choice but to dig into Anna and her just disorganized housekeeping skills. Eilis’ room is a disaster. At the age of 6, its’ Anna’s job to clean it, and guide Eilis along in learning to do it on her own. They both get an F on that remark. Go to Anna’s room and its piled with really no other word for it then crap. Tomorrow I am throwing away a DVR recorder and a box of folding tables. Unopened. I at this point don’t give a shit, because they have all been told time and time again to clean the fuckin place up. She will read this, call me a jerk or more, cry that she tries, admit that its her fault, blame the kids for not pitching in. Gee we cover most of the stages of guilt ever tie this comes up. I just want to get to the stage where the house is all clean.

So Granuaile went to the party without a bathing suit. I found 2 for Eilis, on the floor, and have no idea which one’s fit her. And thats another point - kids grow up - when they outgrow their clothes, get rid of them. Great condition or good, goodwill. Anna has been broken out of that nonesense mode of selling them on eBay. Spending hours to take pictures, right entries, watch the auctions, sent the stuff out and then hope you get paid and it doesn’t get reported to PayPal - who is worthless in protecting consumers and merchants. PayPal only works if you are honest. It seems the scammers know how to manipulate them, and the attitude at PayPal is horrible.

Now the condition of the house it old news going back almost 2 decades. On a recent trip, Anna and Nrighid came home to find every room swept clean and everything thrown, regardless of it getting broken or lost, into a huge pile over 3 feet high, 3 feet wide and 10 feet long. Yes that is how much shit these ladies accumul,ate all the time.

As for the BBQ, the kids had a great time. Granuaille flared up the under leg rash she gets. Eilis played for hours. After eating, it was time to go when Granuaille decided it was fun to run into the other yards and behind the trees. I took her for a walk up and down the block to get Eilis more time with her cousins, but we were done. The downside to BBQ’s in yards with no fences is loose kids.

The kids had some fruit, and Ann sent them home with a tray of fruit, since I was not waiting for them to have cake. Granuaille had light iced tea, and Eilis had a juice box and a soda she brought home and put in the fridge. She went into 2 burgers and a piece of chicken, had to be told to put down the hot dog. The baby ate a hamburger, gave some of it back to me for some wierd bird reason I cannot understand. She did go through a lot of potato salad. And except for one, they skipped all the chips and nachos. With a fat family and fat events and food here and there, I am glad to see them wanting to spend more time running around playing then sitting eating. It is way to easy to overeat and way too hard to get it off later. Especially when it creaps up on you a few pounds a month.

Sleep out on the floor. Eilis played some Waorld of Warcraft, and we watched a movie.

Oh speaking of movies, not sure if I mentioned this. Brighid, I owe you a smack across your hands. We spent over an hour sorting and filing DVD’s back into b inders. As a prep school sophmore, I expect you to keep these things organized. F. I expect you to not let hundreds of dollars get thrown into piles to get scratched, marked and lost.

And just to bring it home, I wanted to take Eilis to see Pirates 3 yesterday. I could not because I have not seen Pirates 2, and we could not find the DVD anywhere, here, in the cars, or by asking your grandmother or Megan. That’s really nice. It just shows how directly your failure to pitch in and do chores effects those in the family that we are all supposed to love.

 Now I could tell you this, but you will probably ignore me, as usual. So I’ll put it down here. You will come to this part and thing its fiction.

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