Survivor!

I chaperoned 6 tween girls for a slumber party last night and have lived to tell the tale. Barely.

Lina will be 11 this week and she wanted to have her party at a hotel with a heated pool. So, I booked a suite at the Holiday Inn. A mom of one of the daughters stayed as well, and she snored so loudly I wanted to cry. We were in a living room type part of the suite, and the girls were in the bedroom part. There was no way I could sleep through her snoring, so I took the cushions off the couch and laid them in the room with the girls and curled up there. Within minutes one of the girls was yelling in her sleep, in a language that I am not sure has been invented yet. She did this periodically all night, but it was better than the snoring, because it was at least intermittent instead of constant. No one else was disturbed (ah, to be able to sleep like a child!) so I dozed off again. To be awakened by snoring. The other mom! It was so loud! I had even shut the door between the two rooms, turned the A/C on high and everything! So I got up and moved to the other side of the room and got into the bed next to Lina, who was sharing with 2 other girls-I had perhaps 4 square inches of mattress to myself. Nevertheless, so desperate for sleep was I that I quickly dozed off, only to be awakened within moments of Lina's snoring in my ear.

Law! To make a long story short, I slept perhaps 20 minutes last night, am $200 poorer than I was (counting the pizza, room, cake, etc..) but my daughter and all her friends had such a wonderful time that they didn't want it to end "pleasepleasepleasedon'tmakeusgohomeyetwecangotochucke
cheeseorsomething!!!"

Yeah. Right.