Life in the Bottle is dirty!

I've been at a ladies' retreat all weekend! What a wonderful time of Bible study and renewal of the spirit was had by all. During the entire 2 hour trip home, the 8 women in our van attempted to prepare ourselves for the onslaught waiting at our homes ready to annihalate the "new" women we had become over our weekend with God. As we approached Orlando, our pastor's wife, Gayle, called her husband. He was out to lunch with David, so right off I knew the "laundry/maid fairy" had not come to my house while I was out! When I called him, he said that they hadn't gotten to every thing, but it would only take about an hour to finish up. Okay, I thought, at least I know it's not going to be perfect, that way, I can be prepared when I walk in the door. Unfortunately, even a "heads up" didn't prepare me for the mess when I got home. Fortunately, the pigs I live with weren't back from eating out when I saw their version of Animal House. There was no food in the house and laundry in various stages of processing everywhere. The dishes remained unwashed, but had increased in number. Empty soda cans and snack wrappers littered the family room and elsewhere. In the remainder of the house there existed a atmosphere of generalized clutter. I spent about an hour in a very calm, quiet manner--I struggled not to blow to the moon--in the end, I was able to come out of my disappointment without blistering the ears of my husband or other appropriate parts of my children's anatomy. My mind is still "renewed", but life in the bottle is dirty!!