The kids had a fun time this past weekend with lots of friends (not so fun for me, though!). Friday night, Ashlyn had a friend spend the night and then Saturday, we decided to invite one of Colten's friends over for the day as well. His friend and his older brother and sister are Ashlyn's friend's cousins, so I thought, what the heck? They might as well all come over. Having six kids in the house wasn't half bad, however. The boys mostly played Star Wars on the computer and occasionally bothered the girls. The girls are who I had the most trouble with. Ashlyn's friend kept getting bored, so after they would set up an elaborate game to play, they would abandon it for something "not as booooring". After a couple of times of this occurring and a fight or two that I had to settle between Ashlyn & her friend, I decided we should all take a walk through the dry creek in the pasture after they cleaned up all of their messes. That went pretty well except for all the stickers in the tall grass. At least it kept them occupied and not bored or making more messes! After we got back, they all went home and I got a break for awhile... only 2 kids, yay! I've decided that it's a major accomplishment that the majority of tween girls make it to adulthood without an abundance of emotional scarring. Some of them (including a few of Ashlyn's friends) completely abuse the use of the "I'm not [talking to you|your friend|happy with you|listening to you|letting you hang with us]" phrase causing others (Ashlyn) emotional trauma when they don't understand why. I wish I understood why, so I could explain it to Ashlyn. It's still a mystery to me. Actually, I do understand some of it (She hasn't matured as fast as some of her classmates and is mostly interested in playing Littlest Pet Shop which is completely fine with me), but I don't know what to do about it. Anyway, hopefully she can make it through all this craziness unscathed! But I digress. All in all, I think they still had a lot of fun even with the occasional issues. That evening, the kids had another treat and got to hang out at Jayde's house while John & I went out to eat to celebrate his birthday. Talk about a fun day for them!
Other news:
- Ashlyn had two teeth pulled last week which required the eating of lots of Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream by everyone.
- Both kids were on the A honor roll last six weeks. I'm very proud of them!
- Ashlyn has a band concert this weekend. Should be interesting :)
- Colten is reading like a maniac lately and was even trying to read the missalette during church this past Sunday.
- John has the wall under the barn porch up and painted (with the help of two little painters) and is working on the doors.
- I am excited that we finally have had some fall colors around here. Took long enough!
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