Halloween

On Saturday night, Laura hosted her first dance. She and her friends reserved the common room in our coop for the event. They bought pop and chips and made little invitations to give out.

She took our home stereo and Kyle's strobe light for music and effects. There were eight of them at our house early to help set up. When the guests started showing up, they were all boys; about fifteen in all. Finally about half way through the dance, a few more girls showed up and it really started going.

The music was loud and it was very hot in the small hall with all the bodies in there. I stood outside and checked in on them from time to time, just to make sure that things didn't get out of hand. They were all so cute dancing the night away. There were a couple of times that the boys got out of hand and I had to send them back in, but all in all it was a good little crowd. About twenty-five kids in all.
It was supposed to be a halloween dress up party but no one really dressed up, they were all more interested in the dancing part of it. Laura tried to organize a few games too, but there didn't seem to be enough interest to get them all playing.
Finally at about 9:45 the crowd dispersed and we were left with the clean up, which didn't take too long with all the girls helping out.

All in all I think that it was a great success. Laura got to see first hand how much work something like that is to organize and run. It was a good experience for her though and I'm glad that we had a facility like that so that she could host it, because there is no way we would be able to have even close to that many kids in our house at once.


After this party was over though, I was told that she wanted to go trick-or-treating with her friends and not with me. :(

It was so strange staying in this year. I'm just glad that I was right there for all of my kids Halloween years. They are special memories for me. They get older and move into different stages in their life and I am happy for the time that I've had.