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Gen's birthday

Gen's 9th birthday Comedy Show is not over, but they are almost asleep. Someone chose THE most boringest movie ever, Teen Wolf 2! to watch and now everyone is almost asleep!

I finally figured out how us parents get thru these crazy kid parties. Bailey's and coffee. Beer make you an automatic alcoholic. Wine, too svelte, start putting your pincky up and not lifting any other fingers. Keep the coffee pot full and armed with Bailey's and the party is already a hit, for the parents.

It seems everyone had fun. There are 4 girlfriends who are sleeping over (the token boy, Parker, who was mentioned on Gen's Graffiti Wall as cute several times had to go home at 10:30.) I wonder if Erin remembers Mrs. Holian ever telling us that you don't say "sleeping over" You say, sleeping IN, some one's house. You would jump OVER their house if you could, but you don't sleep on the roof which still wouldn't be OVER, it would be ON. Over means done or an action word for turning, in a sense. So many grammitcal errors so little time.

Some minor glitches- We went for a walk with flashlights, SO fun, until Tori fell on her knee and scraped it bad. We walked for about 10 minutes and I would say those were my favorite minutes. The kids were all huddled up a few feet in front of me, I could see them all, no one bugging me. (I missed Jeff at that moment actually.) I thought they would be loud and obnoxious with the lights, but they were at an appropriate volume and didn't shine the lights into cars or houses. Instead of going around the block, we went down Athens, to go farther. You know how children can NEVER resist climbing up on walls to walk on. Well, it was Tori's turn at temptation and she had a skirt, her boots, but her knees were bare. The last stone flipped, like a seasaw, and she fell right on her knee. I could feel the pain down my back. So that ended that.

I called her mom, confirmed her drama. At the SAME time, THE SAME TIME! Gen discovered her hamster died. Do I comfort the friend? Do I comfort the daughter??!?! Sat with Tori for one second, on the phone with her mother, ran upstairs, swam through Gen's tears to tell her, we knew he was sick. She was understanding of this and thank GOD, thank GOD, Mariah was behind me to take up my slack. Ran back downstairs to end things with Tori's mom. She said, just cover it up so she doesn't look at the scrape, and freak out more. I said, if you don't hear from me in a half an hour, assume things are good. Poor Parker was waiting patiently to go back for a walk.
Called Jeff, found out he was coming over soon, brave man, I know. When he got here, at first he was taking the kids (who wanted to) for a walk. But Gen was staying in playing Cadoo with Tori and Cassie, so I went instead, with Parker and Mariah, and flash lights and dogs. We get the dogs out when we can, but not often enough. Maggie laid on the landing even while I was rattling her chain, she just didn't get it, until I attempted to put her collar on her, that she was going for a walk. (They all fell asleep now, at 2:21, including Jeff who fell asleep before anyone.) To sum up, one scraped knee and a dead hamster. He is curled up, snuggled in himself. He had a good life (three years), I know, 'cause I cleaned his damn cage every time (except once when Gen did it), fed and watered his ass. He really was a good hamster, never bit any of us. God bless the smallest boy in our family.
Mom slept through it all.
Thanks for listening to my drama, practicing my writing skills while I'm at it. G'night.

Love, Terri