Things I Learned Hosting a Sleepover for Teenage Girls or Why I Should be Committed

On Friday, we hosted nine 12 and 13 year old girls at our house for a sleepover for Madison's 13th birthday. (Again, not old enough to have a 13 year old!) When you include Madison that means we had 10 pre teen and teenage girls in our house for about 17 hours. What were we thinking? Apparently, not a lot!

We did learn some things from this adventure. For example, the combination of pizza, birthday cake, Sprite Zero and orange soda is an incredible stimulant. It can keep you going until at least 3 in the morning or until your mom yells at you to, "Go to sleep before I come down there and physically remove your vocal cords!" I wish I had known about this magic combination in college! Also, none of them knew how to whisper. No matter how quiet they thought they were being we could still every word in our bedroom, with the door closed. I learned more about which movie stars are cute and why than I ever wanted to know.

All in all, it wasn't that bad. Yes, I was very tired the next day and no, I won't be doing this again for a while, but the girls had fun. Overall, they were sweet, good kids. There was no fighting and no one was left out. Most of them even remembered to say, "Please and thank you." How refreshing! I have some hope for the next generation now!