The Camp Chaos Chronicles

BIG NEWS!

noreply@blogger.com (SAJ) — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:40:00 +0000

We're moving to here:

noreply@blogger.com (Sue) — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:45:00 +0000

The world is still chaotic or at least my little part. If you think having two family's live in a 2 bedroom mobile home is tight try adding a visiting family of four .
Then add a fashion diva of 4 who thinks the way to choose what she is going to wear is to pick it out of the drawer and throw it till she finds what she wants to wear which is of course the one on the bottom. If you don't get to it right away of course that means dirty laundry so her drawers are empty and I have lot of laundry.
the weather has been dismal so everyone is inside and the living room has no floor to be seen but the children are happy.

Tom Shawn and I have all had the flu and I hope the rest do not get it

Tom and I are going to crackers to take care of her animals while she goes and retrieves the first of her daughters Tara's job in Idaho is finished and she has to much stuff for one car. when she gets home she takes off to help the other daughter Nick move back to Hemet.

i better get going Chase and Brigadoon are hungry type again later

Girlie Day

noreply@blogger.com (ComfortablyCrazy) — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:44:00 +0000

Today was a girlie day for us here at Camp Chaos. Chaos Kid gave us the go ahead, and go ahead we did. We started day off with a trip to the nail salon, where we will definately be going back. Then off to Starbucks for two blended chocolate milks, a peppermint mocha frap, and a blended tangerine green tea for LadyBug. Then it was time for some power shopping. First Target, which we were alerady in, then Walmart. I've done all of my Christmas shopping, now it just has to be wrapped. By then we were all starved, as our day had started at about 8:30 and it was now 2:00 and the girls and I were surviving on pure caffine. So we had a very filling lunch at Farmer Boy's. Then it was off to Grandpa's so LadyBug could take him for a check-up.

While they were at the doctor the girls and I went to the mall and then to the park. From there it was off to Albertson's to get some meat for Grandpa's dinner, on to Grandpa's to cook his dinner, and then home. Where we had a strange messsage from a florist who couldn't find our address. Could that have been because the guys from the county had to move the mailbox when they took out all the trees.*

It was a good thing that we had a tray of enchiladas in the freezer or we would've been sunk. All in all it was a good day.

*The county took out all but one of the pepper tres we had in fornt of our house and the one next door, not to mention a few on the othe end oof the block. I'll have to post pictures later of the before and after.

Photos at nail salon taken by Rapunzel.

The Top Four

noreply@blogger.com (ComfortablyCrazy) — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 05:02:00 +0000

The sweater she just had to have.
Flutter and Dabu.
Another Sweater To Cherish.
SHOES!!! Thank You Grandpa.
I say the top four because these are the top four I was able to get photos of. She also got an antique necklace, laptop "'puter", panties, a dress, skirt and top, jumper and top, felt coloring board, animal book, SSC coloring book, doll and horse, pink boots, and a kitchen set. And this was only party number one.

Yep, she gets another party on Wednesday. We do this two birthday partiy thing frequently, because we have to have parties for both sides of the family.

Anyways, this is being posted here because this was an unplanned birthday party. Yep, that's what I said, unplanned. Of course that means invite the entire family, buy hamburger and hot dog fixings, ice, sodas, and make a cheesecake.

All in all I think everyone had a good time. I know I did and I didn't even really do anything. All that mattered was that SuperChic had a good time, and I'm sure she did. Just look at that smile if you need more proof.

tales from the camp

noreply@blogger.com (SAJ) — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 04:11:00 +0000

I have two stories tonight.

The first story is about the big spaghetti dinner my mom cooked tonight. It was delicious as usual. There was salad and garlic bread and lots and lots of tasty sauce to put on noodles. Nobody makes spaghetti dinner like Mom. However, nobody has a sense of humor like mom either. I'm not saying my mom is a comedian or anything but she does have interesting timing.

Just as we're a third of the way into the meal, taking big bites and enjoying the company of family, she says,

"There's an extra ingredient in tonight's dinner."

She pauses and looks around the table waiting for us to guess what it is. I'm thinking rosmary or maybe a bay leaf, something savory that I smelled as she was cooking earlier.

"What's the secret ingredient," asks Chaos or me or maybe CC, I forget.

"Ants!" says my mom with a perfectly straight face.

I nearly spit out my dinner. "What!!!!" All of us stop eating mid bite.

"There were ants in the sugar bowl and I accidentally dumped in the sugar before I noticed them," says my mom matter of factly.

Thankfully, CC was nearby when this happened and she assured us all that there was only an ant or two in the sugar bowl and none of them actually made it into dinner. Or maybe she's just telling us that to make us feel better.

"Besides," says CC "Ants are sterile and a good source of protein."

Good to know. But I'll have to give my mom credit for making a good dinner because I kept on eating anyway. If there were ants in dinner, they tasted pretty good.

* * *

The second story is about a cooking mistep I made. The other day CC made a batch of banana muffins and to top them she melted butter and mixed together sugar and cinnamon. She left the extra cinnamon and sugar mixture out on the table for us to use on toast for breakfast. Then because my mom was worried about the cats getting up on the table and sampling the cinnamon sugar, she poured it into a shaker for us to use.

The next morning when I was helping get the girls ready for school, I made Super Chic a piece of toast and sprinkled it liberally with the shaker that was beside the toaster oven. It was kind of funny because Super Chic had been begging and begging for toast but when I put the toast in front of her, she just took one mouse bite and wouldn't touch the rest of it. That is not like Super Chic. She usually gobbles up her morning toast. Finally, I gave up and let her get up from the table so she could get dressed and go to school. She didn't say a peep about what was wrong with her toast. I just figured it was typical unexplainable three-year-old behavior.

Later CC woke up and sat down at the table to talk to me while I was feeding Baby Bug. I told her about Super Chic not eating her toast. CC didn't seem too worried and since she was sitting in the same spot, she decided she would eat the toast. It looked pretty tasty afterall.

After a few bites CC looks at me funny and says, "Why does this taste salty? Did Super Chic put salt on her toast?"

And then it clicked. My mom keeps vegetable salt next to the toaster oven. I got up and found the shaker to show CC. "This is what I put on it. Is this cinnamon sugar or is it vegetable salt?" I looked around and sure enough on another counter was another shaker filled with a similar brownish concoction. Vegetable salt and cinnamon sugar look almost EXACTLY alike.

Poor CC. She had taken two or three bites already. Salty buttery toast doesn't really taste that yummy, especially when you shake it on liberally. But most of all poor Super Chic. Now I know why she wouldn't eat her toast. It's just funny because she didn't say a word about it tasting funny. I guess she just figures it's normal for Aunties to do strange things with toast.

Before & After

noreply@blogger.com (ComfortablyCrazy) — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 04:16:00 +0000

No explanation necessary.

Dear Uncle Chaos

noreply@blogger.com (SAJ) — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:16:00 +0000

I thought you'd like to know that Baby Bug DOES NOT like avocados. Not one little bit.

xoxo B & BB

Happy Halloween!!!

noreply@blogger.com (ComfortablyCrazy) — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:10:00 +0000

Happy Birthday Ladybug!!!

noreply@blogger.com (ComfortablyCrazy) — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:23:00 +0000

In the Dumps

noreply@blogger.com (ComfortablyCrazy) — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:06:00 +0000

Most of us here at Camp Chaos are sick.

Ladybug is sick, SAJ is sick, ChaosKid is sick, I still don't feel 100%, and SuperChic is still crabbier than anything.

Luckily, Rapunzel and BabyBug are over it and Tom seems to have missed the whole thing.

SAJ is taking time off to recuperate, but she promises she'll post as soon as she can sit up and not want to pass out. This means Ladybug and I are on BB duty. Which we don't mind at all. Even ChaosKid has really been a big help.

What does all this mean, I got to sleep with the baby. I know that doesn't seem so special, but it is to me. I really can't explain it, but it's just not the same once they get bigger.

Anyways, someone will post here again soon. It may even be Rapunzel with a book review.

We're Gonna Make It

noreply@blogger.com (ComfortablyCrazy) — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:45:00 +0000

Well it finally happened. ChaosKid got a job today. And a high paying one at that. We were feeling really discouraged these last few weeks due to the fact that the two job interviews he went to looked really promising but nothing happened with them. Now we know why. The Lord knew this job was coming along and that this is what he needed. Hopefully, things will go smoothly, he won't cause any waves (not that he tries to cause waves), and this will be a job like BTP was.

BTP was pretty much handed to us. He found out about the job, interviewed and got the job. This was pretty much the same way. He Googled job search websites, found a local place that was hiring, sent them an email inquiring about the position and got a call back the next day, he was set up for an interview yesterday, and got a call back today.

The starting pay is excellent and he goes up for review after 90 days. Which also allows for a possible raise. If this works out we'll actually be able to support ourselves and pay off some debt. Which means getting a place. (We're thinking about renting the place next door to Mom's. The buying of the new house isn't out of the picture, but it may be a while yet and we all know we can't keep it together all the time. So if we're next door Mom and I will still have our space and be able to take care of the kids easily.

On another note I'm about to cause some waves at work. I'm going to talk to our Human Resources (HR) guy about me working on Sundays. It states in my contract that I have Sundays off and I'm going to enforce it. This will cause waves because we only have four garden cashiers, one who never has worked Sundays, one who just now started enforcing her contract of no Sundays, another who can only work for five hours a day, max, and me. So if 3 out 4 cashiers aren't there on Sunday, they're screwed. The best part is that I really don't care. (I'm not trying to be disrespectful or anything, but there have been some issues lately which I will go into on my blog, just not tonight.)

Camp Chaos Does It Again

noreply@blogger.com (ComfortablyCrazy) — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 03:04:00 +0000

Well we did it. Dad officially came home today and he was non the wiser to what was going on at home.

What was going on at home you ask? This.

"Yep, they're all here for you. And yes, lunch, looking at homes, and the grocery store were all ploys so everything could be set up and everyone could get here."

Rapunzel made deviled eggs and frosted the cupcakes. SAJ attempted to keep things under control. Luckily Aunt Tickle and Do Bug, another family/friend, showed up and lent they're very capable helping hands. We had kabobs, corn on the cob, salad, german potato salad, brocolli salad, grilled veggies, jello salad, and of course a truck cake.

SAJ designed and made the truck cake. It was very yummy. It was a triple layer chocolate cake, with a Kit Kat grill, Ice Breakers Sours headlights, and Pinwheel tires, with an oreo pie crust street.

Everyone had a great time, and Dad was very surprised. The hardest part of the whole thing was not blogging about it. Welcome home Dad. We Love You.

For Papa

noreply@blogger.com (ComfortablyCrazy) — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 04:08:00 +0000

Dear Papa,

We all miss you very much and can't wait until you are home again.

We hope your lap is big enough for all of us, because we're all ready in our snuggly jammies for you.

We love you!!! Lots and lots of hugs and kisses.

Love,
Rapunzel, SuperChic, and BabyBug

Back in the Sticks

noreply@blogger.com (SAJ) — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:46:00 +0000

Well, here I am out in the sticks again for a niece fix. I just can't seem to stay away. Ever since I decided not to clean up all the time, I've had a much better time out here. I sat out in the sun on my mom's swing with my brother and Super Chic this morning. We just sat there soaking up some warmth and sipping coffee. It was great. It's starting to get cold already. Guess what that means? Fall! Pumpkins! I can't wait.

We also had some fun playing around with some big mongo wax lips. Even my mom joined in on the fun.

They'll Put A Smile On Your Face

noreply@blogger.com (ComfortablyCrazy) — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 03:24:00 +0000

Dear SAJ,

I found these in your car, with a set of matching gloves of course. And since I know how much you ADORE toe socks and gloves I thought that maybe I'd requsition them. If that's alright with you of course. Since Ladybug bought them for you when you went to the hospital to have BB, I have to ask first. If you'd raher keep them for memorabilia I completely understand. Either way, they'll put a smile on your face.

With Love,
CC

Change Battery Pack

noreply@blogger.com (ComfortablyCrazy) — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 03:02:00 +0000

I was planning on some candid pics of the kids not getting ready for bed, but that didn't happen. Instead I was greeted with "Change Battery Pack." So phooey to you.

So, what to do, what to say.

Ho hum, doodeleedoo, my mind is a mess and I don't know what to say.

My arms are all broke out due to stress. My leg is getting better, but it broke out in a rash also.

Chaos Kid didn't get the job with EMWD. Oh well. The Lord knows what is going to happen, so I'm trying to keep that in mind. But my arms don't agree.

Ladybug and I agree that we may be co-habitating (is that even a word?) for a while. Which means when her and Tom look into a new coach they may go for one of the more popular models. Which is larger and a little less expensive. If I remember correctly it had a Great room, which completely describes the size, a living room, a dining room, kitchen (of course), an eating area, plus four or five bedrooms, the master bedroom being on the opposite side of the house. As weird as it sounds it may actually work. The way the house is layed/laid out it's almost like having two houses in one. Ladybug and Tom could live on one end, we'd live on the other and the only part that would be shared would be the eating and laundry areas. Who knows maybe it's in the Lord's plans and maybe it's not. We'll see.

So what could make life more chaotic? Not much. It may even calm down Camp Chaos.

Who am I kidding, calm at Camp Chaos? That's funny.

Fashion by SuperChic

noreply@blogger.com (ComfortablyCrazy) — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:52:00 +0000

Go here to check it out.

something's in the water at camp chaos

noreply@blogger.com (Sue) — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:47:00 +0000

It seems like everyone at camp chaos is getting there hair cut. First it was CC, then Ladybug, now Super Chick, and Rapunzel wants hers cut too . But the Chaos Kid says only a trim, someone in the house needs to have long hair. Now, we did to get Chaos in the chair and cut his.

Baby Bug and Jo went home today and we miss them already. Please come back again and add more chaos.

We're down to 4 kittens,(Forest,Button,Abby and Zack), one Teenager,(Joey)and 4 adults. That's still too many cats . Abby and Zack will go as soon as they are old enough. So that leaves us with 7 . Anyone want a full sized cat that loves people, and dogs, and kids, but not other cats? She loves to sit in your lap and be petted, but if another cat comes by look out.

nothing else in new update later

noreply@blogger.com (SAJ) — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:11:00 +0000

I think Baby Bug and I have finally had enough chaos and we're ready to home as soon as the drier is done drying our last load of laundry. Actually, we've had a very pleasant time at Camp Chaos and I can't wait to get home and blog about it properly on a real computer (a mac) . I'm an idiot and I brought my laptop out to the sticks but I forgot my power cord. My battery only lasts about half an hour so I wasn't getting a whole lot of blogging (or work) done while I was out here. Oh well. It was good for me.

It was so fun to see my relatives that I haven't seen in AGES! Like 22 years or something like that. I have lots of pictures that I'll post when I get home.

Au Revoir Camp Chaos! Until next time!

noreply@blogger.com (SAJ) — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:29:00 +0000

roses from mom's garden

High Fashion from the Camp

noreply@blogger.com (SAJ) — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 20:50:00 +0000

You know how some people are just born with style? Super Chic is one of those. She's a natural diva. She was born clomping around in plastic high heels. She sashays with the finesse of a super model. She changes her outfits about fifty times a day and we have the laundry to prove it. I have no idea where she gets this from. Certainly not any of us.

This is an outfit of her own design. The tube top was originally a skirt. It's tied to fit her with a hair elastic in the back.

The New Do

noreply@blogger.com (ComfortablyCrazy) — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 04:15:00 +0000

What else would make a morning at Camp Chaos but a haircut done ten minutes before I have to leave for work, and I still have to pack my lunch. (I had to be at work by 11 am Chaos Kid took photo after I got home.)

All's Well that Ends Well

noreply@blogger.com (SAJ) — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:23:00 +0000

As night settles on Camp Chaos, I can feel the kinks and twinges finally work themselves out of my rigid kneck muscles. Good thing we are all morning people around here, I don't think I could handle the kind of activity that goes on around here 24 hours a day.

Mom rocked Baby Bug and Super Chick to sleep in her big overstuffed "couch potato" rocking chair-recliner. It took about two verses of "A Little Ship was on the Sea" and they were out like little light bulbs. Super Chick doesn't take naps anymore and that seriously cuts down on the night time running arounds. She wanted to stay up and give her mom a hug but CC is still at work.

CC's dinner sits on the dining room table amongst wadded up used napkins and glasses drained of their fizzy lemonade. Rapunzel is playing a game all by herself in the living room because I refuse to play with her. I know, I'm a bad Aunt. But it's Hi Ho Cherry Oh and that's just not my favorite game. I'm tired and I just want to play on the computer!!! Bad Auntie, Bad Auntie.... Baaaaaaad Auntie.

Chaos Kid is sprawled on Mom's bed. He spent the day pushing sticks and things through the chipper shredder. He was supposed to be "mowing the lawn" but I guess somehow using the chipper shredder is step one to mowing the lawn. How that works, I do not know. Maybe he has to shred everything that is on the lawn so he can find the lawn so that he can mow it. If you've been here, you'll find that sentence entirely believable and probably funny. Either way it might explain why we heard horrible screeching grinding sounds, like he was feeding a metal volkswagon bumper through the shredder. I didn't look. When I'm here I adopt the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

That pretty much sums it up. I'm going to pick my way down the hallway, try not to trip over any kittens on my way and maybe throw another load of laundry in the washer. Then I'll find my bed in the sewing room, throw off 49 of the 50 pillows covering it and curl up next to Baby Bug and call it a night.

Then we'll start all over again tomorrow.

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Bug) — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:57:00 +0000

Hi Aunt WAffy! This is BAbyBug. Uncle Chaos is holding me.

I really really like your yarn. I would like to sloooooooooooooooooooooooober on it. THank you for making me the verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry cute kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkitty! I really like the colors red and brown like chocolate and raspberries! Raspberries! I love to blow rasp-berries like this: pbslt! bbbpppbbblllllsttsssbpbpppbbb!

Things are going okay here at Gramma's. I ate macaroni and cheese for breakfast (for breakfast! and it wasn't even warmed up that much.... COLD macaroni and cheese!!!!) and then some guava goooooooky stuff. It's really sweet and Mommy read the label and it says it has CORN SYRRRRUUUUP and SUUUUUGGGGAAAAAAAAArrrrr! I guess that stuff is really bad for me. Whatever! Then I took a nap and a kitten slept with me. Then I went out to lunch with Mommy and Uncle Shawn and Grandma and SuperChic. I ate more guava gook and some sweet potatoes and and AND..... some vegetable wheels! Wheels made out of vegetables! NO, they're just crunchy things that are shaped like small wheels. I really like them. They are like JUNK food for babies! YeAH!

And then we walked to RaPUNzel's school and I saw a LLLLLLLLLama!!! Somebody brought their pet lama to school. But I didn't get to pet it because it was scared of me. That's okay I petted the llama on Grandma's wall yesterday so I don't need to be petting a real one that probably has FLEAS! Then we went to the park and I lost my pacifier.

And then we found it and went home and I sang my famous sleepy song. We also saw a dead dog on the road on the walk home. RapunZEL told me to hold my breath but I don't know how and anyways I didn't smell anything.

Then I took a nap. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

noreply@blogger.com (Chaos Kid) — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:40:00 +0000

Greetings from the camp. I'm getting tired of so many kittens, and kitten poop because it's EVERYWHERE! It stinks. We're going to keep one of the kittens but the rest are going to new homes today. p.s. This is Shawn. My new nick name is Chaos Kid because I BRING the chaos to the camp. Oh yeah.