But I Smile Anyway…

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!!!