Up late

Not many children attended Good News Club today. I did, however, receive a few calls from mothers/guardians of the girls that are to sleep over tonight, to check that everything was “kosher”. This pleased me.
For supper, I attempted a sea food lasagna - I replaced the usual mince mixture with a mussel and sea creature mixture, and used a little less cheese. Not bad. I gulped down my last mouthful as the first girl arrived for the sleep over.
The girls arrived one by one. We set up the beds on the lounge floor,
and Graeme set up the DVD’s and I made a huge bowl of pop corn. Clawd played up quite badly – running between the girls, clawing and biting their ankles, jumping up to hang in their long hair, etc. and had to be put away in the bedroom upstairs. I had Scoubidous, (plastic tubing for twisting into little "thingamijigs"), as well as card and glitter glue and scissors, etc in the dining room. While the DVD’s played, the girls ate pop corn and sweets, chatted, sang along with the songs, made Scoubidous, and messed with the glitter glue.
I started fading at 1 am in the morning, and declared lights out. They were a little taken aback that I was going to sleep among them, but were obviously made of stronger stuff than I am. They continued to chat and giggle in the dark, and I must have fallen into a deep sleep. While I was asleep, they “toothpasted” the other 2 sleeping girls’ hair. Graeme came down at 3.00am because they were still chatting and giggling….