GoAwayMS's Journal

OK I am going to try this again since it got erased or something yesterday.

My 13 year old dd had a bonfire/hayride with about 30 of her friends. Surprisingly, it was all really fun and everyone got along!!  Our kids friends love coming to our house because we always do fun crazy things when we have parties and they all think we are cool parents. LOL! Last year we had a big scavenger hunt (only 15 kids). DH came up with the idea (he's crazy fun!) where the kids broke up into groups and a parent and had to go to places around town and do embarrassing things while the parent filmed them for proof that the did it and then we watched the video after everyone got back. They had to do stuff like go to KFC with a rubber glove on the top of their head like a chicken and do the chicken dance to a boom box they brought with them. They had 6 different places they had to silly things like that. It was sooooo funny!  I took all the video and put it together on a DVD with funny music and sent one home with each kid. Word got out about our "parties" and so that's how we ended up with 30 kids this year. That's OK because I think that's the last party until she graduates anyway. Can't afford to feed them all. LOL  We kept it a bit more subdued this year and kept it to a bonfire and hayride with music  played through a sound system and lights from my dh band. That was cool enough! LOL 

The only problem was one little boy....

He wouldn't listen to anything that we had said not to do. For instance we have an evil neighbor on one side of us so we said don't go into their yard. What's he do... yep he goes right over. My dd told him she meant it and he did it again and this time talked some others into doing it with him. She then told him that if he was going to do it again he might as well go home. So, I am looking out in the driveway and here go 3 boys (2 were staying all night at his house) down our drive and out onto the road. We live out in the country on back country roads and it is DARK at night if the stars aren't out. Well my dd ran after them and brought them back to the house. I told them they couldn't walk home. If they wanted to go they needed to call their parents to come get them. Who knows what mischief they would get into during a 2 mile to his house when nobody even knows where they are. No - not gonna happen on my watch. So they stay. Then the little boy threw a full unopened can of pop on the fire and it exploded hitting another little boy in the eye!!  AHHH! My husband yelled at him for doing it. I checked out the other boys eye and thank goodness it was fine. Then dh takes them all on a hayride and this little boy was standing up on the wagon while they were going down the road and dh had to tell him to sit down. Then when they get back dh was raking up some of the hay that fell off by the driveway over to the bonfire. This little boy grabs a whole bale off the wagon and threw it into the fire shooting flames sky high and right into our tree. I thought for sure we were going to have a huge fire and the tree would fall over into the evil neighbors yard. Yikes - would that be a story! Then the boy grabs another one and my dh tells him no and he keeps coming with it. My dh got loud and said NO! and the boy stopped. Then he decided he wanted to jump the bonfire so he took off running and jumped it! Sparks fell from his sneakers. I feel bad for this kid. His mom was a good friend of mine and she died from breast cancer 2 years ago this month. I don't know if he is acting out like this because he is reminded of it all right now or what. I just know she wouldn't be happy with his behavior. His dad doesn't do anything about it - I think he doesn't know what to do. My friends sister tries to help him and I talked to her. She'll talk to his dad but she can only do so much. 

So, as the party was winding down - my dd realizes she lost her cell phone. Why she even had it with her I don't know. She had nobody to call - they were all already at our house!!  Anyway, we looked around but it was very dark so once the last kid left we went on to bed. Five hours with 30 13-year olds had taken it's toll on us all so decided we'd look in the a.m. I really thought she would end up finding it in the clothes pile on the floor in her room! (Different story!!)  DD got up in the morning and went to look and she came in and said she found it. It was on the edge of the fire and was now a smoldering melted piece of plastic!! It had been on the bale of hay the kid threw in the fire. She called him and told him and he said he was sorry - he thought he felt something hard but didn't look.  DD needed to spend less time on the phone anyway so maybe that part is a blessing in disguise and I don't have to look like the bad guy every night when I tell her it's time to get off the phone. LOL

So - I am exhausted now. Slept a lot yesterday and a lot today. My poor dh did way more work than I did though. He's a great dad to our kids!!

That was the excitement of my weekend. Now back to the couch for some ZZZZZZZZZ's.