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Sleepover success! AKA where’s my hostess of the year award




Last weekend one of my youngest sons friends spent the weekend with us.  The boys had a LEGO Robotics competition and his parents had to be out of town, so we had a guest.

I was worried that they boys would be bored spending almost 2 1/2 days together, so I was trying to think of something to do Saturday night.  It was finally starting to feel like November, so my first thought was to rent a movie.  Ok, thats always my first thought, I love movies. The only other thing I came up with was to go to a movie….which sounds pretty much the same, but its not. Really.

Anyway, no one was real excited about my suggestions. I don’t know about you, but I always wonder if every other family does all kinds of  fascinating things on the weekends. So I was worried that my sons friend would be bored to tears by our couch potato-y weekend.

My husband does not worry about anything, and certainly not about entertaining our children, but he is really good at coming up with fun things to do that don’t involve electronics.  Out of nowhere he suggested making a fire in the fire pit and cooking dinner over it. Finally, something better than a movie! I was pretty impressed, and the boys perked right up and got everything ready themselves.

They made grilled cheese sandwiches and roasted marshmallows. I noticed that our guest wasn’t eating the marshmallows, so I asked if he liked them.  He solemnly explained that he only liked them in smores. Well! As the hostess, what choice did I have but to run right to the store to get chocolate and graham crackers! Anything for a guest :)

When I got back and we commenced with the smores making and smores eating, my son was telling his friend about how when Halloween was over, my husband had the grand idea to blow up a pumpkin with some old firecrackers.  (He swears it was the boys’ idea… right). Kyle listened intently, sighed, and said that his family never does anything fun like blowing things up or starting fires in the backyard.

Awww, can you think of a better compliment than that? We are fun! We do exciting weekend activities! (Never mind that some parents might not approve of the blowing up stuff type activities. It was all done in the name of scientific research, really)

The sleepover weekend was a huge success. I felt like Martha Stewart, only with gooey marshmallows and chocolate dripping down my chin. Yum.

I really wanted to take a picture of us in all our fiery, chocolatey glory, but eating smores takes two hands. A girl has to prioritize.

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    Filed Under Family, Fun, My boys, the husband | 2 Comments 

    2 Responses to “Sleepover success! AKA where’s my hostess of the year award”

      1
        Robyns Online World on November 18th, 2009 4:43 pm

        Isn’t it funny how our own kids can be SO miserable doing these things normally, but someone else’s kids thinks they are wonderful and fun!

      2
        Sheri on November 18th, 2009 9:46 pm

        Robyn, that is so true! If you ask my kids, they’ll tell you we never do anything. I am learning that we do plenty of fun things, even if the kids don’t know it yet :)