So we had a skating party/sleepover for my oldest daughter’s birthday this weekend.  She invited some of her friends to the skating party and only 2 spent the nite.  She thought it would be a nice gesture to invite a couple of her little sister’s friends too so she would have someone to play with.  All told we ended up with 10 at the skating rink and then 6 at the house spending the nite.

I organized a couple of games that could be played during the sleepover, we had nachos and pizza and ice cream.  Everything was going well as long as I was involved.  As soon as I went to bed, it got bad.  They argued over a movie, which is totally normal I know, then some went to sleep and the others that were awake painted the sleepers faces with makeup, that’s also normal, but then there was the incident of making on little girl sleep under the kitchen table because she snored.

I got up to that sight this morning.  I told my daughter that one of her friends really felt left out during the nite and that she should have been more attentive.  Throughout the whole nite, the little sister seemed to have a problem dealing with 2 of her friends at a time so she left one of them out.  The whole thing was just nuts.  Why can’t girls multitask when it comes to friends?

My live in father (it’s kind of like a Frasier situation if you’ve ever seen that show) did not enjoy the nights events at all.  He’s quite old fashioned, to the point that when most of us rebel against our parents’ advice, he would take it as the law.  So if his mom or dad said, don’t stay up too late he would go to bed early and like it.  I don’t know how he figured out how to like rules but he loves them.  So this unruly bunch was just too over the top for him.

I, on the hand am more of a rebel so it didn’t bother me too much.  The part I didn’t like was waking up to the kid under the kitchen table.  I told my daughter that was a little much she mentioned how the girl was snoring, but I told her that doesn’t matter. 

I think what happens is the girls get overwhelmed with too much going on and too many people around.  I think an older age is more appropriate for a multiple child sleepover but until about 14 I’m gonna keep it just one on one.  The thing is, you don’t know what other kids’ parents allow them to do, maybe they run around and jump on the couch at home, maybe they are allowed to stay up until 3am, who knows I just wish they would have been better at entertaining themselves.   

My daughter will probably not like the news but I think she will appreciate it when it’s just her and one other girl and they can actually enjoy each other’s company instead of it turning into a competition for attention.

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