Oy! It's 6:30 here - 9 1/2 hours into DS16's 12 hour party.

Did I mention it is coed???

Nice group of kids, the idea is they play video games, cards/board games and watch videos all night (Matrix, and - believe it or not - Finding Nemo as a joke, but I saw quite of few of them drawn to it), try to stay up all night. I don't ever remember agreeing to this - he must've buttered DH up something good!

DH and I stayed up in shifts to supervise; translation: DH is asleep snoring, while I'm up supervising.

I laid down some, but no way was I going to fall asleep! Got up at 5:30 to make an egg casserole, in part to have an excuse to stay close to the action.

Luckily, it stormed here last night, so they had to stay indoors - easier than having to watch them both inside and out! Right now we've got RockBand going (I love that they all sing the lyrics - albeit poorly!), a heated video game involving war games, and I do believe a few are perusing a childhood Pokemon collection.
Nice group of kids, no problems at all, but I think it will take me all weekend to recuperate (and, Kristen, my throat is hurting now too!).
So much to catch up on here! Am working from memory, hope I get this all right:
Kristen, hope you are feeling well!
Jude, hope you had a great trip and safe trip home!
Mel, many many pages back, I think I owe you a hearty congratulations on milestone weightloss?

I managed to lose all my winter fat - ie, holiday fat starting from Halloween through Valentine's Day!

Thanks to a stressful week, lost a little bonus weight too!

Now, I hope I can keep that off!
OH! Now I remember what reminded me of y'all today - I got my credit card bill from paying off the cruise balance!!!

YIKES!!!

I almost fell out of my chair, wondering just what the heck I had charged!
Okay, 2 hours 10 minutes till end of party. Must remember to use this night as future guilt-inducing leverage with son.
zzzzzz....