Sleeping outside...

I remember sleeping out on the trampoline all the time as a kid! I thought it was great fun, especially when my Mom would forget to turn off the sprinklers. So the kids asked if they could sleep outside and I said sure! Around dusk, Maxine started to get scared and didn't think it was a good idea anymore. I assured her that she didn't have to but Jack and Juliet were still enthusiastic about the idea.

Around 10 o'clock, Jack and Juliet started to get scared and Maxine had braved up by then. So I said I'd sleep out on the trampoline with them. Big mistake. I must be getting older because I'd wake up constantly and my shoulders would hurt or my tailbone was asleep. Looking over at the kids, they were all asleep like logs. Around midnight, the wind kicked up so the sound of my neighbor's wind chimes and sliding garbage cans kept me up the rest of the night. At 5:30 Maxine got up to use the bathroom and the other two woke up. By this time it was getting light out and the kids weren't afraid anymore. I said, "You guys can do whatever you want but I'm going inside to my bed." I slept inside until 8 o'clock but felt like I was dead all day long. The kids weren't much better. By midday, it looked like a crime scene at our house, bodies lying everywhere. We still had fun. :)