i am completely bonkers!!!

i agreed to letting catherines friend olivia stay the night omg!! lolol. they went up to bed at half 7 and were still talking and giggling an hour later. olivia doesnt stop talking lol.

so at 9 we had the tears and olivia wanting to go home that was awful. her parents are at a fundraiser. i got her settled and she said 'i cant sleep because catherine keeps talking' lolol as i said before olivia hasnt stopped talking lol that did make me chuckle lol catherine was zonked while olivia was crying too. poor catherine shes usually in bed at 7 and asleep by half past

theyre asleep at the mo, but im worried olivias going to wake in the night, panic and get really upset.

whyyyyyyyyyyy did i agree? lolol

Hehe hun, i've got all this to come

Hope she is OK hun and she settles and doesn't wake up.

I remember my mum having to ring one of my friends mums up at 11.30 at night because my mate started to cry and wanted to go home

I dont envy you.. Its hard especially when she's not your own. if she wakes up just tell her if she goes back to sleep mummy and daddy will be there in the morning to see her and if she sleeps time will go quicker and tomorrow she can call her folks and speak to them.

i said that to her when she was crying. seemed to work then so will use it again

i do think though that 5 is a bit young to be sleeping out

I don't think so, it's a bit more of whether they are used to it or like it. Jas loved sleeping over at friends houses or family. It was a big adventure. If she has a friend over I do them a 'bed picnic' which is great fun. They sit in her room and have a supper together. It's all little bits like slices of apple, carrot, a few crisps, cherry tomatoes, etc and they love it

I've had a similar experience to you with one of her more 'whiney' friends some years ago. I tried to be nice when she started stamping her feet saying she wanted to go home and demanded I take her there (Jas was asleep and got woken up!) and I ended up telling her to behave herself and get to bed before I got really cross. Suffice to say I've not invited her again and actually, Jas didn't want her back as she thought she was rude.

It's a big learning curve with the wonders of sleepovers and something I didn't do as a child but it can be fab fun for you and the kids.

Good luck with it all

well i dont think we'll have olivia ovber again for awhile lol. she was up at half 1 then half 5 crying and wanting to go home. thing is her parents were out boozing so couldnt let her go home to that. everyones been up since half 5 and kids are quite crotchety (sp) she was fine once both she and catherine were up. never again lol

ah thats a shame hun, she might just be a bit of a whingy child our not used to staying out.

If we go out (which isn't very often lol) we are careful who we leave George with because he's a bad sleeper and a whinger - only leave him at one of our parents and then we feel really bad

ok i saw Emma yesterday (Olivias mum) and she has a black eye. so i asked what happened. she and her partner came home after the fundraiser absolutely paraletic. Emma fell down a flight of stairs im so glad we didnt call them when Olivia woke wanting to go home

Whoa, the must have been one heckofa fundraiser!!

Glad you survived the night Stace!!