Once gone and after cleaning up the mess I did manage to take a nice hot bath and get some chicken noodle soup on for dinner.  Needless to say though by 4:00 p.m. when the hubby returned the chaos with our own children began again.  Most of the evening was spent listening to them argue, laugh and giggle very loudly over a movie I was trying hard to watch, and then complain about how boring said movie was. I finally lost all my self-control and told all of them I didn’t want to hear another peep out of them until the movie was over.  Fortunately, for me I didn’t hear anymore the rest of the night because by 10:30 they had all fallen asleep on the couch.  But as I watched each of them sleep I was grateful and thankful to the Lord above for each of them. I could not imagine not having each one of them in my life, each day. My life wouldn’t be the same without the chaos they bring to it.