Oh my! 5 kids under my roof for just over 15 hours, and I was wiped out!
It was a successful sleepover, thank goodness, but not just me, the whole house ended up in zombie mode, come the afternoon yesterday!
The kids friends arrives around 6pm on Saturday, and they were straight out in the garden, the girls playing in a tent, the boys kicking a ball about. Then food, via the barbecue. Yup all went down well. Oh, did I forget, my in laws were also over for dinner too. So we have 5 crazy kids, two oldies, a cat, and two manically smiling parents!!!
My in laws made a break from the house as soon as the food was done, I think Hubby Dearest would have too. But I convinced him to stay!!!
The hard thing? Getting these 5 hyper kids to bed! 3 girls up in the kids room, the boys on the pull out bed in the living room, leaving Hubby and me no choice but to chill in our bedroom for the evening. We duly got the kids into beds, and sat, ready to watch a movie together, but I think between 9.30pm and 11pm I was up and down like a yo yo, trying to control the giggles emanating from both upstairs and downstairs.
On top of that Sonu Singh was in his element! So many beds to choose from! Thank goodness the kids weren’t scared of cats!
I finally flaked out around 11.30…. No, I didn’t even finish the film with Hubby dearest!
But was joyfully awoken by 2 lively lads at 5.30am!! …. 5.30am??!!! Seriously boys? Get thee back to bed!!!! Then at 6.15, lil man cones in, “can we pay on the phone/iPad/play station?” Er… No!
I requested they wait until at least 8am before technology wakes up, and tried to sleep, but not before hearing the TV get switched on! Whatever!
But yes at 8am, the whole mob was truly awake, girls included… At 8am on a Sunday morning, for crying out loud!!!
Major breakfast making machine mummy ground into action, and then getting teeth brushed, clothes changed and hair done was the next mission, but I completed it!
They played for a while and by 10.30am I had to break it to the lil munchkins, that I had to drop em off home. Booooo!!!! They weren’t happy, but hey, that was the plan.
Excess kiddies dropped off, I came home then we popped over to my in laws for lunch, followed by a visit to the prom, so the kids could run around, and get an icecream.
We got back home and literally all flaked out, apart from Lil Princess. I woke Lik Man up at one stage, and he was so tired, blood shot eyes stared at me, and his head hit the pillow again.. ZONKED!!!!
Serves him right for sleeping late, and getting up with the birds!!!
But I didn’t get off lightly either. I couldn’t nap, as Lil Princess was awake, so I decided to do some homework from my course. Not easy with a headache from hell brewing… (3 in 3 days) but I did, two units, yay me!!! And I was not cooking, so pizza was duly delivered. Kids refused to sleep, but I got em down by 9ish in the end.
And time for a well deserved lie in, on this sunny bank holiday Monday, right?
Hell no!
Sonu Singh had other ideas, and decided that 4am, yes 4am!!!!! would be a good time to come sit on my pillow, and mess around with everything on my bedside table!!
What was I doing at 4.30am this morning? Loading the washing machine! Well if I’m up, might as well be practical!
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Lil Princess is just rousing now, at 9.50am, Lil Man has been up a while, and I got more sleep until 8am in the end.
So now to start the half term holidays!!! Yay!!!
Have a good day peeps!!!
But I Smile Anyway... 
May 25, 2015 @ 17:01:59
Glad the sleepover went well! 🙂
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May 25, 2015 @ 17:24:56
It was exhaustingly fun! 😊
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May 25, 2015 @ 16:39:44
Sounds like fun and good job surviving! My son hasn’t asked me to have one. He hasn’t even asked if he can go to a friend’s house! He just plays with the neighbors outside. He rides bikes with them. I guess there’s always next school year!
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May 25, 2015 @ 16:42:39
One day, it will happen… to be honest, I didn’t sleep over at a friends until I was a teenager! but we had lots of sleep overs with cousins instead!
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May 25, 2015 @ 19:04:33
Ohh! I was 6 or 7 when I went to stay overnight at friend’s houses. My son’s 9 and he doesn’t have any cousins his age. He’s an only child too
He stays with my grandparents a lot though.
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May 25, 2015 @ 19:06:01
Bless him…. But, like I said, his time, and yours, will come, I’m sure!!!
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May 25, 2015 @ 16:03:05
Hahaha, I sympathize but really, I remember being the first to wake up (early, too) on Sundays when I was little. 😀 😀 That wonderful feeling, that..! 😛
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May 25, 2015 @ 16:34:37
yeah, then you get to our age, and realise that you shoulda slept all you could… it comes not very easily as you get older!!
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May 25, 2015 @ 19:44:26
True, I was just complaining to my mom that we should have picked later timings for my driving lessons – she made me get the earliest feasible time slot so that I’d wake up early.
sigh
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May 25, 2015 @ 20:21:16
Lol!!! As you get older you realize earlier is better, but as a youngster, you need your sleep!!!
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May 25, 2015 @ 15:56:34
Ooooh, you must be shattered! I am so pleased for you that the sleepover went well though, Problem is now, the kids will be wanting another one during the half term! 🙂
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May 25, 2015 @ 16:00:21
Oh, they know that won’t be happening! The next one will be at their friends house so we get a break, I think!!
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May 25, 2015 @ 16:02:29
That’s true! 🙂
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May 25, 2015 @ 16:34:07
Need to repay the favour, you know!!
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May 25, 2015 @ 17:10:29
Yes, we found that it didn’t always happen though!
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May 25, 2015 @ 17:26:09
No, not always, but this particular friend is pretty good! 😁
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May 25, 2015 @ 17:28:56
That’s good. You and Hubby will be able to have a bit of time to yourselves 🙂
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May 25, 2015 @ 17:29:55
Yes, and hopefully I don’t just fall asleep!!!
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May 25, 2015 @ 18:38:49
Ha Ha! That would be me 🙂
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May 25, 2015 @ 18:55:45
It IS me… On many occasions!!! 😀😀
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May 25, 2015 @ 13:22:13
just think, someday they will be teenagers. lucky you.
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May 25, 2015 @ 14:42:22
Oh lordy, maybe not 5 teenagers at one time!
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May 25, 2015 @ 15:09:48
oh yeh. it will be like a plague of locusts descended upon your kitchen when they get there. maybe you cna ship them off to your Mum & Pops???
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May 25, 2015 @ 15:35:38
That’s an idea… my parents are always asking for the kids to stay!
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May 25, 2015 @ 15:46:09
pawn em off. send you husband too. you’d have a clean house for at least a weekend. 😉
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May 25, 2015 @ 15:59:14
Now there’s an idea!!!
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May 25, 2015 @ 16:00:20
yeh but cat would miss them after a day or two
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May 25, 2015 @ 16:01:29
But he’d get me… unadulterated mummy time for him!
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May 25, 2015 @ 16:05:44
that’s a plus up cat
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May 25, 2015 @ 16:34:46
😀
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May 25, 2015 @ 16:44:16
well, you are there to serve his needs 😉
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May 25, 2015 @ 13:13:19
Congrats on surviving. Have yet to challenge a sleepover, so I’m going to take some notes from this. Might still keep some duct tape ready. 🙂
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May 25, 2015 @ 14:41:51
That might be a good idea lol! I have loads.. why didn’t I think of that!!!??
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May 25, 2015 @ 15:04:10
It’s also shiny, which helps. At least with my kid. 🙂
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May 25, 2015 @ 15:34:38
I have patterned Duct tape too!
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May 25, 2015 @ 15:46:56
Even better. 🙂
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May 25, 2015 @ 11:06:06
Those giggling fits are priceless o remember them well from when ours were little. Half term hols i wish work work work😕
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May 25, 2015 @ 11:07:18
It was lovely to hear… Just the tiredness, the grumpiness, the next day was hard to bear!!!
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May 25, 2015 @ 11:30:30
It always is a sleepover for the kids always means a lack of sleepover for the adults but its all part of the joy of having kids we were no different at that age😊
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May 25, 2015 @ 12:43:43
Very true!!!
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May 25, 2015 @ 10:00:49
You definitely paid your dues, Ritu!!! You faced this challenge bravely and you survived. What a woman! The next photo I’ll see from you will be with a red band around your forehead!!!
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May 25, 2015 @ 10:03:55
Lol!!! That’s me, Wonder woman, right!!!! 😀
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May 25, 2015 @ 10:04:52
Haha… right, Wonder Woman!!!
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May 25, 2015 @ 10:07:53
Lolll!!!!
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