My rules for sleepovers and/or sleepover parties, thank you. Please do not tell me at the last minute that your child needs to be up and out of the house by 8:00 a.m. the next morning for basketball practice, a soccer game, et al. I would not have planned a sleepover if I knew I would be responsible for making sure your child got a good night's sleep. If it is a sleepover party, we put a starting time for a reason. Please don't tell me the morning of the party that your child will not be able to make it, due to a game a half an hour prior to the start time, until almost an hour and a half after the start time. Please do not call me that morning and tell me you have planned dinner with a relative that night and your child will not be able to make it until three hours after the start time. But, your child does not want to miss the movie. Let me just pull out the newspaper and pick a new movie AND a new theater, so we can accommodate a dinner I should have known about a week ago. A birthday is once a year, in the party cases, and I think it should be important enough to get to, get to on time, and stay at for the allotted time. Oh, and please don't call me at 9:40 a.m. the morning after and tell me you need to pick your child up at 10:00 a.m. since your family is going somewhere. I'm sorry, it was a sleepover, your child just woke up about twenty minutes ago since he stayed up all night. I haven't even fed him breakfast yet. In fact, he is still laying in his sleeping bag, with the rest of the kids, on the family room floor watching cartoons. Thank you for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. Let's everyone get on board with the etiquette of sleepovers.

The trouble with Facebook....I can say it here because I am not known here to the friends I am talking about. We have been helping some friends, a lot, in the past few weeks. As far as I know this other family has really not done a lot to help in the situation our friends are in. I know I am being cryptic but I don't ever want this to get in the wrong hands because I feel I am being petty. So, I was reading Facebook yesterday and I knew our friends were going to a NBA game last night. Well, this other family posted on Facebook that they were going to the NBA game last night. I felt kind of weird because they never asked us to go. Then, this morning, I read the other friend's post and it thanked our friends for TAKING them to the NBA game. Not a cheap date in our neck of the woods. I know I am being petty, but I really feel this is the problem with Facebook and with reading all of your friends posts. It is really easy to feel very left out in certain situations when you read all of your friends posts and you realize that you have been left out of an event or a situation. As I write this I have one other thought too. I think friends should be discrete when posting if they know that everyone isn't included in an event. It is pretty stupid to post something that you know someone, who has been left out of the event, will read. So, I guess that is my final thought. It isn't a problem with Facebook, it is a problem with the indiscretion of my friends. Why must these situations hurt me so much????