Oh my. Have you ever been to a scout lock-in before? You stay up all night tending to children, playing games, eating very unhealthy food, drinking copious amounts of strong coffee and enjoying lots of conversation with other moms. It's great fun, but man, it's hard to be up all night at my age. Yes, I'm saying that now. I'm officially old. ;) Actually, next month I'm officially old. I turn 50 in February.
I think I'm likely the oldest person that attended our AHG troop's lock-in last night, and by the end of the evening I looked it. Having a second batch of babies in your thirties will do that to you (makes you one of the oldest, I mean).
My girls and I got no sleep. Nadda. We were up all night. There was no way to sleep. Too many noisy girls running around and caffeinated moms chattering away. Plus, the booming sounds of a movie were playing on the overhead projectors in the room we were supposed to be sleeping in.
As often happens at lock-ins (so my Hubs has told me from his experience in Scouts), the dvd player wouldn't work; thus, the videos brought to watch were useless. So someone was able to go through their Iphone to Netflix to play movies. Ahhh, technology.
After a steady diet of more modern animated fare like Veggie Tales, The Iron Giant, Tangled, et. al, I was proud of my 15 yo and one of her friends for putting on Top o' the Mornin'. After all the boomy movies that had been on it was nice to have a cheerful, happy, fairly quiet movie to watch. It was especially nice hearing Bing Crosby's soothing voice as it lulled the poor girls to sleep.
One of the moms brought her Keurig coffee maker to share and it was in constant use. I'd never tried one before. Pretty nifty invention, I must say! But pricey! It makes not only coffee, but also hot apple cider, hot chocolate, whatever. You buy these single serve K-Cups that you put in the machine. You fill the water reservoir, put your cup in place and press a button and it makes you a cup of hot whatever you want. Amazing!
While we were away, Hubs and Son enjoyed eating pizza at our favorite local Italian restaurant and watched a Laurel and Hardy film at home.
We left the lock-in early as I was at my limit and still had to pack up and haul our stuff to the car in the freezing weather. It felt good to get home, shower and crawl into bed. It's now after 4 pm and I'm still in my pajamas. I don't care. Today is a wash anyway if I'll be any good for church tomorrow.
As hard as it was on me, I'm glad I went. It was fun and there are lots of happy memories to hang on to.
5 comments:
I have been to a lock in as a participant, don't think I'd want to be a chaperone! (50? Really? I don't believe it. :)) I'm sure your girls had a ball though and will always look back on it fondly.
According to my brother-in-law, who has one, you can use your own coffee and a reusable filter with the Keurig. We don't have one, but as you say, they are pretty nifty.
Lenetta, your day is coming! lol Actually, the visiting with the other moms part was the reward for helping. Fun times!
Jordana, thanks for the heads up on that. Not sure I'll ever own one, but it's nice to know I can get my own K-cup and BMOC. Kewl!
Ok now I have to laugh here since my Sister is 63 here this year. Old where and with Tangled it was a qute movie gave new meaning to cast iron in what my Mom told us girs growing up here. And Bless ya Woman for being locked in and down with a bunch of teens.
Not just teens, Cricket! lol The whole range! Actually, the teens did a lot of helpful supervising of the younger girls. That was a big help and gave us moms a break! Still, the loudness was indescribable. ;)
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