I must be crazy....

This past weekend my twin nieces (soon to be four) visited – we had a sleepover. Mary Elizabeth had a fantabulous time. She loves her cousins and enjoyed playing with them – first at their house on Friday night and then at our house Saturday and into Sunday. She had been talking for weeks about they party they would have in her room and the three of them got on quite famously. It would have been great if I had gotten out my camera and taken some pictures of the three of them prancing around the house in their Halloween costumes, riding around the house in the play car with another riding toy hooked to the back so they could all ride together, playing in the back yard, etc., etc.; but I really just couldn’t quite get to it. Adding a couple more pre-schoolers to the mix (while trying to clean and do laundry and other "weekend" things) just seems to take a bit more energy, so you’ll just have to take my word for it that a good time was had by all.

Before I could quite recover from the weekend, however, I got a call from Mal telling me that the marching band had been invited to perform at the ball park (hopefully in celebration of a Philadelphia World Series win) and she would have to be at the school at 3:45 Tuesday morning. She called and asked if a couple of her fellow guard members could come stay the night so they could all go over to the school together in the morning – this would help cut down the number of parents that had to get up pre-dawn and cart kids to the high school. For some reason I said okay [urge to smack self on side of head]. Somehow I had traded in two extra pre-schoolers for two extra teenagers. [Repeated urges to smack self on side of head]. In the end, Monday night’s ballgame was suspended for weather, the early morning performance was cancelled due to weather as well, but not until about 3:25 Tuesday morning, i.e. five minutes before the girls were to leave the house [Renewed urge to smack self on side of head].

I think tonight I may just shut myself in my room at 8:30 and go to sleep.