Am I feeling sane today?

So, tell me... Am I feeling sane today?  I have four kids of my own, ranging in age from 1 to 11.  And I decided to let the oldest have his first sleep over...  Now mind you, the second oldest has had a sleepover before, just not with us. While staying with the grandparents. I always thought that it would be super easy...  Mind you, it is not all bad!  Just exhausting! :-P

Started out frantically cleaning yesterday after I talked it over with the hubby, and we decided it was OK... and boy do I mean frantic cleaning!  Hubby mowed the back lawn, swept outside, rounded up the 8 or so laundry baskets that were outside full of the dirty clothes I haven't gotten to (our dryer doesn't really work well, and our clothes line is like 50+ years old...but that is a whole different story!), and put them safely in a corner under a tarp on the back porch.  The rest of the clothes as always were tossed in on my bedroom floor...if I only had the guts to post of picture of the amount of clothes my family of 6 has!!!  Yikes!  Back to subject....  in the mean time, I cleaned the kitchen (not the best job in the world, but good enough for a 12 year old boy to not be icked out!), cleaned the dinning room, cleaned the living room, cleaned off the china hutch, cleaned off both floor to ceiling book shelves. 

This was all until about 1 am today (including dinner of course, and the hour aside putting the 2 year old to bed).  Then at 2 am the 2 year old wakes up screaming, so the hubby goes to put her back to bed.  As soon as the hubby walks out of the bed room the baby wakes up.  I get up to take the baby, he just screams louder and pushes me away...i proceed to get the hubby and trade since I know the 2 year old really likes me more (sssshhhhh, don't tell the hubby - she is his favorite!).  All night long I was up with her, she kept waking up - bad dreams, scared, who the hell knows what... I nodded off a few times, so I figure I got my best sleep from 5 am to 7am.  (mind you, I am sleeping next to her toddler bed on a hard wood floor with a really thin sleeping bag beneath me - my hips hate me!)

I get up and finish my frantic cleaning from room to room - bathroom, kids room, back porch, etc... All of this for a kid that seems like  he doesn't care either way.  But  I know his mother, and she is a bit of a neat freak.  I couldn't live with myself if he were to go home and say our home was dirty, that we were slobs or anything!

I pick up the sleepover attendee around noon, and proceed to let the kids play play xbox all afternoon...Around 4pm I make them turn it off and send them out side to play.  It was fun seeing all 5 of them playing in the sprinklers...and of course, did I ever think to grab the camera to take a picture?  Of course not!  So i will try to repeat it tomorrow so I can save the memory forever! 

My sister brought home 2 huge pizzas and 3 batches of bread sticks for dinner (yes I live with my sister...so this tiny ass house has 8 people (sometimes 9) in it and one huge ass cat tonight.  And that is an all together different story to tell!).  After dinner, they are back on the xbox.... I kick them back off it, and send them outside for some more outdoors time.... 

Now it is 11:33 at night, and the 3 older kids and the hubby are watching Jackass 3.5.  Not sure if it was the best pick of movies to watch..but they are having fun eating cookies, ice cream, drinking soda, and laughing together.

Now add to this that I have done 2 mad rushes to the store to get junk food, then cold medicine for me and the 2 year old - we are both sick...and tell me, do you think I am nuts?  I feel a little nuts!

I wonder how late they will stay up talking, playing etc... should I try to listen in, or just let them have fun?

The sleepover attendee is having fun I guess, he posted on facebook that he was having a great sleepover.

Did boys when I was a kid have sleepovers?  I don't remember my little brother, or older brothers ever having sleepovers...I remember mine, but of course that is because they were my sleepovers!  Who knows, guess I'll have to e-mail the little bro and ask if he ever did...

Shew...wish me luck!