Chelsey Day and other stuff...y'all ready for this!

Remember that song that goes " Y'all ready for this? Da da da da da da da da....etc. etc". I can hear it in my head. Beware! There are a lot of random references in this post....

So Friday my dad had to work, you know delivering babies, saving the world and what not, so I had my little sister Chelsey with me all day.

The day started off with us going to MOPS (Mothers of Pre-Schoolers). It is a really cool organization that meets twice a month. We eat breakfast, get our kids babysat, and have an all around good time. This morning I had three people to get ready (me,Chloe, Chelsey), and a breakfast casserole. I didn't have to bathe and dress the casserole, so that was good. Anyway I was combing Chelsey's hair and I asked:

Me: "Would you like me to put a clip in your hair?"

Chelsey:"No, we are just going to your support group, I don't need a clip for that. It's not like we are going back in time to London, England or anything."

I have a pretty hectic schedule, Thursday-AA, Friday-MOPS. You know....

So after the meeting we are driving home and she said:

Chelsey:"That is the last time I am ever going to that."

Me:"Okay. I won't invite you until you are married and have kids."

Chelsey:"No!!! That is NEVER going to happen. I never want to get married!"

Me:"Why?"

Chelsey: Because! It involves things like making out...and...(insert loud sigh of irritation) I don't want to talk about it!!!!!

I promised her awhile ago that I would take her to the premiere of HSM3 (High School Musical 3 for those with a life). So we also did that. And I am not going to lie. I loved it. It actually made me want to go back to High School (I have been feeling so ancient lately). Although I don't why, it is not like High School is really like that! Except for a few things were pretty accurate. Like me dating the High School Basketball star/best singer at the school yet still hot/popular yet still nice to nerds, guy. Also the whole part about me having 3,000 dollars a week to spend on my wardrobe, that was true too.

Later that night I also took Chelsey to a Halloween party at the Pindars. Here is Don wrapping a girl, that is not me, with toilet paper. And while I was not looking, Don told me Chelsey found the cream cheese dip (a block of cream cheese with salsa on top) and put the whole block on her plate and started eating it like a candy bar. Sorry.

Saturday Don and I finally cleaned my house. Don asked me if I was interested in hiring a maid. This was not a joke. Would I be a bad house wife to accept?

And then that night I went to my long lost friend's Wedding Open House. This is one of my friends from High School. She dated the back up star on the Basketball team. She and me liked to break out in song at the lunch table and do fancy routines that the whole school also got involved in. And then Don and I went to the Mindy Gledhill benefit concert for the couple injured in the plane crash two months ago. Notice my link above to a story done on them by the AZ Republic. The concert was a bigger tear jerker than an episode of Oprah (um, if I watched Oprah). And when the little girls (the injured couples daughters) got on stage to sing "Golden Slumbers" written by the Beatles, you would have to have a heart of stone to not be moved. The words:

Once there was a way,

To get back homeward.

Once there was a way,

To get back home...

Sleep, pretty darling,Dot not cry,

And I will sing a lullaby.

Are you crying yet? They are the cutest little girls, and I am not ashamed, I cried through most of the concert. And sometimes I need a good cry. Don said he was crying inside, but nobody knows it but me (thank you Boys to Men for giving my husband words to express his feelings). I wonder if any of these jokes make any sense to anyone but me? Anyway, I am so glad I went. It really inspired me to shower the people I know with love (thank you James Taylor).

Well chloe needs a diaper change. Bad. I gotta go.