Reflecting back on my dear daughters first sleepover I am thrilled with how the whole par-taaay went. The girls feasted on friendship and giggled themselves into a blissed out state of euphoria.
“People who have this much fun should be sent to jail Mom!!” My BlueEyed girl yelled at me over her frozen mocktail. Tears of laughter streaming down her face.
Yep, I did my job, memories were made that evening that will last us both a lifetime.
However, there were some gifts from this “party of the year” that this sleepover virgin did not expect.
Left behind from the sleepover extravaganza were piles of triple brownie chocolate fudge cake, mountains of chips and copious amount of teeth rotting candy. When dawn breaks, I quickly discover lack of sleep leaves a girl with no self control. My thighs do not thank you sleepover.
Weeping crying children~my nerves no longer appreciate your subtle charm. Clearly you need your solid eight hours as much as I need my solid errr chopped up seven hours of sack time.
The biggest surprise of all. A raging case of head lice. *shiver and eeek!! This gift courtesy of BlueEyed girls best friend?
Good thing I love your BFF so very much, cause honey, those creepy crawlies are a pretty big price to pay. Even for “the best party ever!”
Yes my dear sleepover, clearly, you are the gift that just keeps on giving. Wonder when we can have another one?
Mwah!
Wow, once again, I esteem you with the most awesome-nest mommy title. Seriously. Your resolve is like, stellar and dang…shrugging off head lice? I couldn’t do it man…you be a rockstar!
Hey, you with the long blog name, it’s me, the other person with a long ass blog name!!
Not a huge fan of sleepovers either but my daughter loves them! Her friends probably think I am the meanest mom out there!
OMG that is so gross! It actually made me remember something I have thought in years.
As an adult, no less I had a similar story. I spend the weekend at a girlfriends who moved out of the city. A few days later I run into her boyfriend, who thought I had given his girlfriend lice. I didn’t have anything!!…turns out it was her cousin who had it. Well apparently he had got it too, both upstairs and downstairs! LMAO!
I never had sleepovers but every kid should them once they are supervised.
We had a sleepover for my son’s 13th birthday. We had EIGHT BOYS!!! Let me just tell you, in the morning when my husband and I headed downstairs we were greeted with the smell of EIGHT BOYS!!! Ugh.
I guess it’s all worth it when you see their faces light up and have all those special memories. However, I don’t do them often.
How old is your daughter? My oldest is 6, and I need to know if I should print this post out now, or if I can wait a little while… Because I’m scared. And please oh please tell me what a mocktail is, because I think I need to have that for my next girls’ night out with my friends — because we’re Baptist. 😉
Has anyone ever gotten sleep at a sleepover? Not here.
ewww…..lice. Goodluck! Omg we had a ton of sleep overs…I kinda miss them. Fortunately, when my oldest goes to the bar on this side of the city, she comes and stays here LOL its cheaper to take a cab here.
Well that would totally suck. I would be so pissed off if I had a sleep over and came home with lice.
We had a sleepover once. Notice that I only say once. You are braver than I my friend, and I didn’t even break out the mocktails.
Oh, I’m so sorry about the lice! What a downer to the perfectly executed party.
eeewwww..I remember the head lice..Oh boooy…!!cheer up any way your rising to the top of the charts..i saw your name today like by 80 or supm…you go..girl..now go get that lice shampoo..i forgot what its called..?
Ugh! head lice, that is terrible!
my dd is obsessed with sleepovers. I hate them myself.