The Next Day

The next day after the sleep over started when Lucy got up, at just before eight in the the morning. It was lovely to hear her knocking on the bedroom door and calling my name. This morning, she was a girl on a mission and that was to wake up all the people in the family room below. There was fun to be had and of course chocolate to be harvested from her advent calendar.

I followed Lucy downstairs with her things and after she had her chocolate she entered the family room. It was more like a large bed, rather than a room where the girls play, it was full of sleeping girls. It wasn't going to stay that way for long because Lucy carried out her plan to wake everyone up, starting with Emily, who she found and bounced on. 

While Lucy was busy, getting up the tired girls, I got on with cooking everyone, who was hungry a cooked breakfast. Nothing grand, just sausages, eggs, baked beans and toast and juice if they wanted it. With Emily, now awake, she took the orders as I dished up the food. Lucy, meanwhile, entertained all her new best friends as only Lucy can.

The morning was quite a contrast to the mayhem of the night before. The girls were all tired and much more subdued. They mainly either played with Lucy or they were on the computers putting pictures of the event on there Facebook pages and chatting with friends. There was a fair deal of gossiping to be done after the events and drama of the night before. It wasn't until mid morning that they started to leave and we were just left with the core group for lunch before they all headed into to town, to end what Emily billed as the event of the year.

With lunch out of the way and the house quite, other than Catherine and Lucy we all decided to get the shopping out of the way for the rest of the weekend. As it turned out it was a good thing we didn't leave it too late. When we got to the car we found we had a dead battery. Thankfully I managed to get it out, despite a very troublesome bolt, and located a neighbour with a charger. Lucy was fascinated by the charger and kept checking the needle on the meter to see if it was charged until I distracted her with some bubbles that drove her in to fits of laughter as George tried to catch them. This lead us into a afternoon of game playing and fun.

After three hours on the charger we were mobile again and the shopping got done. When we got home on went the dinner and soon that was all gone as the girls cleaned their plates. It was after dinner that the effects of the night before really started to show and we all crashed out on the mattresses in the family room and watched the remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It was one of those lovely peacefully moments where everything seems right. Lucy snuggled into me as we watched the film and it was a lovely family moment. 

Soon it was Lucy's bedtime and she was more than happy to head up the stairs. After a story form everyone and her kisses and cuddles, she went straight to sleep. It wasn't long tonight before she was followed by the the other two and soon the house fell quiet.

By all accounts all the people at the sleep over had a wonderful time and I know having them was a lot easier than I thought it would be in the end. I know Lucy loved all the attention and it was the nice the way they all included her and thought she was cute. I was glad they included Catherine too, I thought she would feel left out but she just joined in and had loads of fun.