Sleepover party

Tonight we have six extra children coming to stay for the night. I fear that I'll scare them witless with my clipboard and attached 'action plan' of what we're going to do, eat etc. Since the boys were toddlers I've figured that the best - or rather the ONLY - way to emerge from a children's party unscathed is to plan everything to the letter. So between this evening and tomorrow lunchtime, my daughter (now 8 yrs old) and her friends will have watched Stardust and Dr Who, painted nails, made their own pizzas and jigsaws, had a midnight feast, a treasure hunt AND a water balloon fight. And they will damn well have ENJOYED IT and tell their parents how GREAT it was.

Hmmm. No wonder one of my sons remarked that he 'lives under a Facist regime...'