boys weekend

On Friday when Big Son left for school, he was going home with a friend afterschool and sleeping over his house along with 4 other boys. At lunch time I get a call, from school, from Big Song telling me that his friends parents said that they boys could not come over after school after all and that he would be comming home on the bus. I said thanks for calling, I'd see him at 3:00. Big Son replied that he invited everyone over to his house and I would drive them all over to the original "party" house at 7:00. "I Love you Mom your the best, thank you" and hung up before I could protest. Needless to say I have been in this position before ( with a group of hunger teenage boys comming home after school). I ran to the store, came home and made 3 dozen cookies, taco dip, homemade chips, bought 5, 5 liters of juice and soda, 2lbs of bacon, another dozen eggs, loaf of bread and another dozen eggs plus an assortment of chips. (to be on the safe side). Boys came home, came to the kitchen and proceeded to eat. 3 dozen cookies GONE within an hour. After about an hour of the boys being here, Big Son came up and asked me if everyone could sleep over. "What about your friends house" I asked. He replied that they all decided that they would rather stay here. Great.

Next step was for the 5 boys to corner my husband and beg to be driven to the movies. Of course he said yes as long as I would drive them. I made them all call their partents and drove them. I was actually better than I though it was going to be because the house stayed cleaner for a little longer and more important it was QUIET! Who knows when they finally fell asleep. I woke up at 1:00 and they were still awake.

It is fun to have the kids have friends over. I'd much rather them have friends come here instead of them going off. I know their friends and they all seem like good kids. I guess right now it doesn't make much of a difference, but if they boys keep having friends over the way they do, I figure when they are in high school it will be good. At least they will know they can hang out here.