Tis the Season...

Late night bon fires....

Midnight (and later) swimming....

Jake and friends a few nights ago.

Amanda asked if she could have "some" friends over the next night. At last count, there were 6 or 7 girls and about 5-6 boys here. Boys out by 11 and then a sleepover in the basement for the girls.

I don't have a problem with the parties-- it's the mess in the morning that I have issues with.

Towels everywhere, bags of open food, pool toys laying around, chairs everywhere, clothes everywhere, soda cans, water bottles and litter everywhere.

And NO VOLUNTEERS to clean it all up!

Oh, and I forgot my favorite thing..... the kids have a habit of leaving the pool gate open all night because they are too lazy to close it!!

This really makes me crazy.... so after I stop ranting about the gate and the liability of it being open. Then I have to start jumping all over them to clean up. Asking nicely doesn't do a thing.

Yelling and threatening to end all priviledges is what it normally comes to.

Yeah, it's 2 in the morning and World War 3 broke out here tonight about the condition of the pool area, basement, garage, etc... Nothing has been cleaned up.

But, I did ask Jake very nicely to mow the lawn for me........because "they say" that I should ask "nicely" for things. Oh, did I mention ??? that I asked 4 DAYS AGO !!!