Late night, late morning

We had a late night last night, being Friday and all. Why? I'll get to that shortly.

Alexander's school organised a 'movie night' fundraiser where they have converted their dining area into a movie house sans the chairs. They asked the kids coming over to bring sleeping bags, and their cuddly toys, if need be. For a certain fee, you'd get to watch a film and have "fredagsmys" in the comfort of your own sleeping bag and company of your friends (and teachers and volunteer parents in the background, of course). The money to be raised were donated to the Year 9 class for their end-term educational trip (sorry, I forgot where they are supposed to travel to). Anyway, this whole new concept is very new to me, but I find them to be quite interesting. However, since I didn't finish work until about 5pm yesterday, and my husband's on his night shift, Alexander didn't manage to join his friends to the movie night. So, I promised him that we will have our own movie night and "fredagsmys" at home. And that is exactly what we did! After dinner, we set up the big screen and projector and hooked up the video - presto! We have our own "movie house" in the comforts of our living room. Alexander popped some popcorn, we opened a bag of chips, made some lemonade and brought out some cans of Coca-cola and nuts to munch - all these we herded off to the living room. Three movies later, we're both beat, stuffed and fed up. Close to midnight, Jan came home and joined us for a while until we all decided to retire to bed.

Now you know what kept us up all night last night. As of this writing, Alexander is still asleep, and snoring. I missed his chirpy voice early this morning - he's normally up at 5am on weekends. Nah, he's off to his dreamland ... in Charlotte's Web ... Flushed Away ... Over the Hedge.