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Friday fun cont.....

I read over my Mom's post and couldn't help laughing!
So I wanted to add my own synopsis of my over night adventure!

7:00pm....Son promptly goes to bed....he loves bedtime, and will run to his bed when told it is time for "night-night"

7:15pm....Daughter goes to bed...but difference is, she is just in her bed watching a movie.

7:30pm....Neighbor's little sister runs up to the house yelling, "Our house is on fire!"

7:31pm....I know Neighbors are at a funeral, so walk down to see what is going on.

7:32pm....Neighbor's mom and kids (Neighbors two and Mom's two) are running out of the house.

7:32pm....I ask Neighbor's Mom what is going on, she promptly answers that the house is full of smoke and she can't find the fire....she already called 911.

7:33pm....Neighbor's frantic Mom is trying to call Neighbor on cell, I take all four kids to my house.

7:34pm....Fire Engines, police, ambulances, and just about every one of our Neighbors are outside.....remember, Daughter hates Fire Engines (thinks Santa is on them!) and Son is trying to sleep with five kids yelling!

7:36pm....Fire men have found the fire....apparently one of the kids put an over mitt in the toaster and turned it on....later find out he was trying to make French Toast!

7:45pm....Neighbor's Mom comes down for the kids...smoke has cleared out of the house.

7:46pm....Daughter back in bed....I can finally clean up from dinner.

7:50pm....Daughter in whining for me to lay in her bed with her...which I would normally love to do...but have a million things to finish first.

7:55pm....Whining gets louder....go lay in her bed.

8:15pm....Finally say, "That's it...you have to go to sleep now, or I turn off the movie!"

8:16pm...I leave, Daughter asleep in one minute.

9:00pm....Finished up, finally get to my room to put pj's on....Son is awake.

9:10pm....Son will not go back to sleep...I am exhausted.

9:15pm....Put Son in bed with me...he never cries during the night (which after today, I know he did not feel good...more on that later).

10:00pm....Son still is not asleep....keeps playing with my hair, face and trying to put his finger in my mouth while saying, "Bite!"

? Time....I am asleep, Son is asleep...Daughter enters bed...tells us to scooch over.

? Time...I have a foot in my back and a hand over my face...don't know who's it is...push it off.

Sometime in the early am....Really fat chihuahua laying on my feet...kick him off, roll over to a kid in my face.  Look at the clock, realize I don't have to get up yet...fall back asleep.

5:00am...Daughter awake asking, "Mommy, are you awake?"   Well I wasn't until now...tell her to go back to sleep, roll over.

6:30am...Alarm goes off....hit snooze, kids jump up like it's noon and they slept all day..."I want a drink!"/ "I am hungry!"/ "Stop hitting me!"/ "Mommy, is it time to get up now?"

6:40am...Crawl out of bed, thanking God that no one peed in it.

Friday Friends Featuring My Mom!

Today we have a special guest blogger...my Mom.  (hint, hint....earning some points here!)
Here is what she would like to share:

Summary of my very strange and very annoying night/morning.

9:00 pm - Almost asleep 

9:15 pm - Husband comes to bed 

9:20 pm - Husband is still squirming, snorting, sniffling, scooching, kicking 

9:21 pm - Now awake and need to potty 

9:23 pm - The horrendous music begins - snore, snort, gasp, grind 

10:20 pm - The horrendous music continues and is now unbearable. No amount of kicking, poking or slapping shuts him up. Now really aggravated. 

10:21 pm - Pillow in hand going to the sofa - can't shut the door or won't hear the alarm in morning. Think..."Why is it that I'm always the one that has to sleep on the sofa?" 

10:21 pm - TV on, pillow and blankey all comfy.  Hmmmmm.... 

10:23 pm - Computer whining and grinding - get up and check - it's still running it's scan and finding viruses. Great. tomorrows soon enough to deal with that! 

10:25 pm - Computer sounds it's 'boink' - scan complete - computer goes to sleep.  ahhhh........ 

10:26 pm - turn up the TV; it's not loud enough to be heard over the upstairs racket 

10:27 pm - finally the monotonous hum of the TV show drowns out the annoying racket 

11:?? pm - Ah,..... sleep. blessed sleep - turn off the TV roll over. 

??:?? AM - TV turns itself on, off, on, off, on, off, on, and wakes me up 

??:?? AM - I watch the remote work all by itself proceeding to turn the TV on, off, on, off, on, off, on.......... nothing visible is touching the remote which is laying on the coffee table but the on/off button continues light up (on and off) as the TV takes it's cue and does the same thing. Now I'm awake - again!  The TV is blasting on and off in the finally quiet house and no one is touching the remote. Now I'm getting creeped out but too tired to worry about ghosts. I rip the battery out of the remote and all goes quiet again....for one very short, very blissful minute until......................snore, snort, gasp, grind, snore, snort, gasp, grind.  Argh.......... 

??:?? AM - Pillow goes over my head and I fall back asleep. Ahhhhh.... 

4:10 AM - BLARING ALARM BUZZER.  OH GOD!  Please, I'm so tired! Someone upstairs, please turn it off!

4:12 AM - BLARING ALARM BUZZER - still sounding off. God, can't he hear that?

4:13 AM - trudging back upstairs with my pillow in hand to turn off the damn alarm. Tempted to whack someone in the head with my pillow on the way past.  Of course he is blissfully sleeping.  Please, just let me get a few more minutes sleep.  Hit the snooze! 

4:22: AM - BLARING ALARM BUZZER - and I've had it.  Just get up. Get ready for work. Drown myself in the shower!

5:00 AM - I hear this very bright, very well rested, very upbeat.....Good morning!  I see RED - partly because my eyes are so bloodshot from LACK of sleep!  I just have to get out the door before I say and do something I may regret. 

5:35 AM - Turnpike visibility is nil - can't see anything through the driving rain. Oh great another stupid tractor trailer passing me in the left lane (don't you know you're not suppose to be in the left lane you idiot?) and then there's the one in the right lane who I've been watching drive off the road every so many feet.  And finally there's the guy in front of me who is petrified of driving and keeps putting his foot on the brake every 4 seconds. 
Tractor Trailer passes - WALL OF WATER! Don't panic! Don't hit the brake!  OMG!  I can't see anything! 
Thank God there is perfect silence in the seat next to me. Probably because my car-pooler has just crapped himself. Skid Mark! 

6:10 AM - Ah finally at work! Peace at last!

Gail

Friday Friends!

I would like to start Friday Friends.  Although I can imagine it in my own mind, I guess I should explain!

Friday friends would be a guest blogger that I invite to blog on Stinky John Jones.  It can be a friend, relative, or another blogger from the blogosphere!  I am hoping that this will take off....and I think it will allow others to get to know each other and their views.  Sometimes looking through someone else's eyes can really wake you up, you know.

If you would like to write a blog here, email me. 

Help me get this thing off the ground!