The Fun(ny) House

When I was a newlywed and a young mother, I made many ambitious plans for how I would raise my children.  I planned to feed them only nutritional food, teach them to cook and clean, expose them to culture.  I uttered many wise statements like "I want my house to be the fun house.  That way my kid's friends will want to come over here, and I'll know who they're playing with and what they're doing."  Then, the real world set it.  

I still want all those things.  I just had no idea how yucky "nutritious" could be, how aggravating cooking and cleaning with kids could be, how expensive culture could be, how loud a fun house would be.  

Friday night, we had Austin,  (Tyler's friend) Teya (Emily's friend) and Joshua (Randy's friend) spend the night.  All three are wonderful kids and we love having them over.  (Really, parents, we do love having your kids over.)  But what was I thinking have everyone over at once?  Oh yeah.  I was thinking we could get our social obligations finished in one weekend.  And now, I'm not sure if we're the fun house anymore.  Austin and Joshua had to leave early on Saturday morning.  So we (gasp) actually put kids in bed at a relative early time.  They problem is they took me at my word about leaving early.  So everyone got UP early.  At dark-thirty in the morning, Jason and I were awakened by the pitter-patter of a herd of elephants above our heads.  Well, at least I know where they are, who they're with and what they're doing!