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Champagne Went MIA

Monday – I don’t remember my kids  getting up so early, so I’m either too old to remember or as my daughter would like to say, “My brother made my breakfast”.  You have no idea what a horrible mother I was! OMG!  Well, little Finny was up before 7am and getting dressed in her new school uniform, which is navy blue shorts, a white polo shirt with the school logo, white sneakers and a school bag bigger than her!  First day of school and she is saying, “But I don’t want to wear shorts, I want to wear a dress”.  If you’ve ever read the blog before and seen photos of Finley Ray, you note that she is always beautifully dressed in the most gorgeous outfits and she LOVES to dress up.

Once we have established that a dress (really a jumper) can only be worn on Fridays, we’re headed downstairs for breakfast, which I tell her she has to eat because lunch time is long time from now and you’re not home where you can snack at will.  And here’s another first for me;  Chiara has pre-ordered Finley’s lunches to be delivered to school every day! Naturally organic, of course.  I guess the school has contracted with some service to provide these nutritious balanced lunches – I didn’t ask what it cost!!  Poor Chiara and Joel suffered with PB&J sandwiches (at least not on white bread), a piece of fruit, some cookies or better yet, one of Debbie’s Little Cakes or a Devil Dog! Can you imagine the horror of sucha lunch?

Once Finley was off to school and Francesca was literally tearing apart the toy room, Chiara was hell-bent on stuffing her enormous wardrobe, a carload of shoes and we won’t mention how many designer handbags into her closet.  It was an amazing feat but she did it.  AND as she is unpacking boxes and her suitcases, oh my look what was inside – Yup you guessed it, THE  MISSING MAYBE STOLEN EXPENSIVE CHAMPAGNE BOTTLE!  Chiara is holding up the beautiful  bottle of Tattinger’s Comtes du Champagne. Now who is going to call The Breakers and apologize?  Not Me! Tom tells Chiara to do it and by Tuesday we both tell Tom he better do it since he was the one who went to the Security Station and made the fuss.  And one does wonder exactly what champagne bottle was Rachel referring to!

By the end of the day, the living room floor had been washed, at least 5 loads of laundry washed and folded, Francesca tried to ride her car down the stairs – it’s a good thing Chiara heard it moving.  I shrieked when I found a lizard under a suitcase in the front hall and it ran into Tom’s office and hid between some stacked paintings – I never told him about it!

The day has vanished, the electronics guy, Pedro never showed so we never got to the grocery store!  No TV, No internet, No food!  Delivery Dudes to the rescue  again! This time Chiara ordered so there was chicken and salmon and veggies.  It wasn’t too long into the meal before one of Frankie’s favorite phrases came out, “I don’t like it”.  “Isn’t  it time for them to go to bed”?

The dueling toothbrushes is a scene not to be missed.  Different toothpastes, individual stools to stand on and yet there must be something here to whine about.  Ah hah, Frankie’s stool has more decoration on the name than Finley’s.

Twenty-five pages into Eloise, I call it quits.  Silly me never checked the number of pages in the book before giving it to my own little Eloise, Finley.  Good Night!