Ummm… Yeah… I’ve Had Better Ideas
Posted By AmyD. on October 30, 2006
Saturday night… 4 (yes, I know Bug, I told you 3, but I wasn’t counting my kid) that’s right, 4, eleven-year-old girls, all at MY house for a slumber party.
I ended up chatting with one of the mothers for about twenty minutes. In that time, Mike and Ethan came in with pizzas and took them straight to the kitchen. By the time I wandered in to the kitchen to eat, the girls were gone. Mike and Ethan sat at the table with a stunned look on their faces.
Me: Hey, did the girls like the pizza?
Mike: I don’t even think they realized they were eating.
After dinner with no sign of the girls downstairs, I tripped upstairs to be a nosey mom. From behind the closed door of Kate’s bedroom I could hear giggling, a lot of giggling.
Girl 1: You call him.
Girl 2: No, YOU call him.
Girl 1: Remember, he said if we called him not to be surprised if the line was busy.
*giggles*
Girl 3: Shut up!! Shhhh!!! Shut up!!!
Girl 1: (hissing) It’s RINGING!!!
Girl 4: Put it on speaker…
Girl 3: No one is answering.
*groans* *giggles*
It almost made me want to be eleven again. Almost.
Later that evening…
Ethan: Oh God, Mom?
Me: What, E?
Ethan: One of them just said, (using 11 year old girl voice)”My sister says when I have candy I get really hyper.”
Me: Which one?
Ethan: I don’t know, they all sound alike.
As this was a Halloween slumber party I bought “The Changeling” for the occasion – ummmm, scaaaaarrryyyy!!!! One of the best ghost-story movies I’ve ever seen. Awesome!! No blood, no gore… just straight up scare your pants off.
All 4 girls disappeared 1/2 way through the movie. 
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Snort!!!
Good times!
But you survived, right?
I mean… this isn’t a pre-written post that you wrote before they devoured you in a fit of candy hyperactivity. Right? Right?
AMY? AMY!!! WHERE ARE YOU AMY?
(see… THAT scares the pants off of me)
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Well, they were kind of cute and it did bring back memories…
Miss Britt Still here, thank goodness I made a TON of these gooey, cookie bar things, had buckets of candy and popcorn because otherwise, this might NOT have been pretty.
Ahh nice to see you’re amongst the living today
*chuckle*
That really made me smile Amy… 11 is such a sweet age! We recreated a slumber party earlier this year – about 8 of us stayed round mine for the night (no men allowed!), and I had pass the parcel and pin the tail on the donkey, and lots of snacky foods – doesn’t work so well when everyone is on a diet or allegic to wheat/dairy/on atkins. 11 year olds are so much less complicated!
Oh my. (wipes brow and thanks the heavens those days are past LOL)
Glad you survived! Loved the “they all sound alike”!
Wishing you a Happy Halloween!
I don’t ever remember seeing that movie..I can’t name one movie that has actually scared me. So I’ll be going to blockbuster to grab that one for the weekend!
Ugh, Slumber parties can be the downfall of a mom. I had six 8 yearolds a few months ago, and I still wake up with giggly girl induced nightmares!
Wow, that almost made ME want to be 11 again!