June 5 Aidan's Sleepover

Friday Night: The kiddos' last day of school for 2025-26 was a half day yesterday. !! Aidan was very happy to have me pick him up at 3:30 this afternoon for his turn at a sleepover.

As soon as we walked through my door, Aidan went to my pantry closet and began to look for a snack. I told him I had a delicious batch of my homemade French toast already waiting for him in the crock pot. He grabbed and chair and we were eating our "dinner" at 4:15! I had baked some bacon yesterday and re-heated some of that to go with the French Toast. For some reason, Aidan loves my French toast. I can't tell you how relieving it is to me to have at least SOMETHING to offer this food-challenged boy that he actually likes. 

We hung out afterwards, doing various things--playing Battle Box first of all. I purchased this game at the toy store in Grand Haven about a year or so ago. I watched people playing with it inside the store and thought it would be great to add to my toy collection here. If I had it to do over again, I'm not sure I would have bought it! The shooters don't have enough "umph" in them to really send the marble flying at an appropriate speed to withstand the barriers, and we do ric-a-shay the marbles off the sideboards but find that we need more force to really do it justice. However, all of the kiddos enjoy playing this game and request it every week when they are over.

We started our movie at a little after 6:00. I let Aidan choose one of my movies that I have on the shelf. Aidan chose "Home Alone One" which we practically have memorized--but Aidan gets a bang out of the characters in this story, and the robbers are pretty funny too. I made up some root beer floats for us, which we drank out in the kitchen prior to watching the movie. THEN I popped Aidan some popcorn to eat during the movie.

The movie was over by 8:00 and since it was too early to go to bed, we played the game of "LIFE." It went much better with only two of us playing. Aidan ended up with FIVE children and FOUR pets. We had to use an extra car for his family because it was so large.

Aidan looks a little bit sleepy here ... and the game lasted until about 9:30. He was ready to settle down for the night by now and went right to bed and right to sleep! I did too.

It rained all throughout the night, which made me very glad because I was praying the rain would be out of our area by Saturday morning so that I could take Aidan to Deer Tracks. I had looked at the week's weather predictions back on Monday, and at that time the weekend looked pretty WET. I asked the Lord if He couldn't please make it possible for good weather Saturday ... and when we woke up, I could see the sky clearing and it was just barely sprinkling.

Aidan got up a few minutes prior to when I did. I found him sitting at the round table eating chips and playing his arcade games. I asked him if he wanted a bowl of cereal and milk, but he declined and stated he would rather have chips. I poured him some milk and told him that before we left for Deer Tracks, we would each have another bowl of French toast so that we wouldn't be hungry while we were there.

We played a game of Chess Friday night and another one Saturday morning. Aidan is a very good Chess player! I am NOT a very good Chess player, but it was still fun to play these games with Aidan.

We had about 90 minutes left before we had to leave for the park, and Aidan announced he wanted to make a sock puppet. I hauled out the bin of sock puppet material and Aidan got to work. He decided he would make a RED snake. He was happily busy at the design and construction until it was time to leave for Deer Tracks Junction at 10am!