Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Pumpkin Carving Slumber Party
You will NEVER guess what I'm doing right now!!! I'm sitting in the dark with 6 darling little girls who are laying on the floor of my living room watching a video. Tonight we had the first ever "school" sleep over with my 5 school girls (Herin Kim, Kiho and Kaho Sato, Hannah Baker and Elizabeth Fouts) and special friend, Micah Fouts.
When they all arrived at 6:00apm, I was a little less-than-thrilled and, to be quite honest, just plain TIRED. I was making all sorts of mental notes to NEVER make plans on Friday nights. (Either I am just too tired after a week of schoo or I am getting oldl!)
Anyhow, while I put the pizza in the oven, the girls sang to "Sound of Music" and made Halloween crafts that my mom sent. (Thanks Mom!!) They LOVED the freedom to just do whatever with the supplies that were available and made some very creative and cool things.
After dinner--during which I heard numerous times that there was SO much cheese on the pizza, the girls made up and played some crazy keep-away game. I think part of the game was to see who could SCREAM--or maybe SHRILL at the top of their lungs the loudest. It was too cute. (I popped a couple of Aleve at this point!)
Then we carved pumpkins! TOTALLY fun. They LOVED cleaning out the pumpkins and playing in the seeds and goo... And the jack-o-lanterns look great!
And now, after watching "A Little Princess" and then hiding and jumping out and scaring each other around the house which, of course, made them all scream at the top of their lungs, causing Renee to call and make sure we were okay because she actually HEARD the screaming from her house, we've settled down and are (hopefully) falling asleep during a 30 minute "focus on the family" video.
I am SOOOOOOO glad that we had this fun and special night together. Praise God that He gave me the strength and energy to keep up with the girls tonight. And I am especially thankful for the simple joys and pleasures that God gives us--like laughter for no reason!
Well, I need to get to bed now that the video is over and I am hearing "sounds of sleep" from the girls. I have a feeling that no matter how late they stay up, they'll be up pretty early. Any suggestions for breakfast??
When they all arrived at 6:00apm, I was a little less-than-thrilled and, to be quite honest, just plain TIRED. I was making all sorts of mental notes to NEVER make plans on Friday nights. (Either I am just too tired after a week of schoo or I am getting oldl!)
Anyhow, while I put the pizza in the oven, the girls sang to "Sound of Music" and made Halloween crafts that my mom sent. (Thanks Mom!!) They LOVED the freedom to just do whatever with the supplies that were available and made some very creative and cool things.
After dinner--during which I heard numerous times that there was SO much cheese on the pizza, the girls made up and played some crazy keep-away game. I think part of the game was to see who could SCREAM--or maybe SHRILL at the top of their lungs the loudest. It was too cute. (I popped a couple of Aleve at this point!)
Then we carved pumpkins! TOTALLY fun. They LOVED cleaning out the pumpkins and playing in the seeds and goo... And the jack-o-lanterns look great!
And now, after watching "A Little Princess" and then hiding and jumping out and scaring each other around the house which, of course, made them all scream at the top of their lungs, causing Renee to call and make sure we were okay because she actually HEARD the screaming from her house, we've settled down and are (hopefully) falling asleep during a 30 minute "focus on the family" video.
I am SOOOOOOO glad that we had this fun and special night together. Praise God that He gave me the strength and energy to keep up with the girls tonight. And I am especially thankful for the simple joys and pleasures that God gives us--like laughter for no reason!
Well, I need to get to bed now that the video is over and I am hearing "sounds of sleep" from the girls. I have a feeling that no matter how late they stay up, they'll be up pretty early. Any suggestions for breakfast??
