<p>Actually, jym, thanks for inviting us to the party.</p>
<p>We will be the group hanging out in the kitchen with the open bourbon bottle, and our 5 o’clock shadows, and mostly empty cans of Pringles…</p>
<p>Bullet—hope you and Pima feel better soon!! Hmmmm…we’ll be waiting for when you’re not delirious so you can tell us your story!</p>
<p>Mommusic-
Thankfully no, these aren’t co-ed teams. I DEFINITELY couldn’t take THAT on again! And I fully expect to let the coaches keep an eye on their kids (who should hopefully be tired and crash early… well… I can hope). Funny thing though, one of the moms of a girl on our girls ultimate frisbee team signed up to host one of the visiting teams…then found out only boys teams were coming!! LOL!! Her daughter will have a GOOD time!</p>
<p>IvoryK -
Thanks for your vote of confidence. You have a GREAT memory! You nailed the stories from the post-prom party! Did I ever tell you guys that the girl that tried to smuggle the rotgut rum to the party got kicked out of school? She lives a block from school and got booted for too many unexcused absences. Let your mind go where it may on that one… I know mine has. She just turned 18-- my son wanted to give her back the leftover 1/2 empty bottle of Rum that we confiscated from her bag as her b’day present (clever!) but we poured out that stuff a long time ago! </p>
<p>Alu-
Of course you are welcome to the party! Does that mean I have to pull out the good Bourbon? And you have a 5 o’clock shadow??? Hmmm. Maybe I DO need the good bourbon!! LOL!</p>
<p>I am counting on the coaches to keep their teams in check. My H will be out of town and I do NOT want to be checking in on these kids, nor do I want them checking out my wine cellar!! They swear all they want is a place to put their sleeping bags (and I fell for that one!). Thankfully there is a bathroom down there, so not too many will traipse upstairs. I don’t plan to be up patroling at 3 am.
Gee, and to think I could have just signed up for a 3 hr shift at a concession stand. Seemed like kess fun at the time we signed up…</p>
<p>LOL, jym you always seem to host the best parties!</p>
<p>The most we ever did was house 4 kids for Maccabi games (HS regional event.) We did have space for 2 girls and 2 boys, instead of the usual same-sex requirement, so my kids were pleased to have that mix. They were all so tired at the end of each day, however, that partying was the last thing on their minds!</p>
<p>I’ve considered “volunteering” our house for the post-prom thing with D and her friends. Even though I think it would be a mostly female thing from the beginning, I still hear jym’s blow-by-blow accounts in my mind. I was one of the many who stayed up late for updates that night. So far, I haven’t remotely volunteered. Thanks for keeping me grounded, jym!!!</p>
<p>bringing up from page 2. I came in to buy a round of virtual umbrella drinks everyone—any takers?!!</p>
<p>I was just told on CC that my comments were “low and irrelevant” 
I’ll be over in the naugahyde booth, mumbling and entertaining myself.</p>
<p>btw, I went to google to check my spelling…there really is a naugahyde.com!!! Didn’t see if they still carry this special shade of orange we have.</p>
<p>tsk, tsk… you didn’t wander into one of those political threads, did you? </p>
<p>A thrilling Friday night here – I’m sipping wine by a fire alone – husband is snowbound in north Jersey. D2 is at the movies after a fun day of sledding with friends. Why does it sometimes seem everyone has a life but me?! </p>
<p>Ah well… there’s always company in SA.</p>
<p>We’ll keep each other company, Ivoryk. My kids are going out for the night, and H is at his mom’s making sure she is ok after the snow today.</p>
<p>I’ll have to keep my wine virtual though as I have to pick S up from friend’s house later.</p>
<p>Hey Astrophysicsmom-- I couldn’t find your “low and irrelevant” comment, but I ventured into that thread to come to your defense. I guess I’d better duck. Good thing I have limited internet access right now, eh?? </p>
<p>As for the post prom parties-- maybe we should resurrect that thread to warn poor fools who might volunteer this year.</p>
<p>hahah, jym… nope, not even remotely worth going there! (but I did like your comment there!!! 
)… I CERTAINLY think your prom thread from last year needs to re-appear… there’s a whole new crop of parents who may have NO IDEA!!!</p>
<p>So… what did you say that was "low and irrelevant??? If I’m gonna defend you, it’d help to know what you said :)</p>
<p>I ASSUME that it was the thread itself. (I re-read all of my posts there, and couldn’t find anything offensive.) Hey, I said in the beginning that I knew the topic was snarky! Just trying to lighten up some of those terribly intense and silly political threads. Guess I crossed the wrong line!!!</p>
<p>^^^ Learning to thicken your skin and not let the small stuff get ya down… good practice for hosting htat post prom party, astrophysicsmom!!!</p>
<p>nope, I’m cool. Life isn’t remotely worth such silliness. Including silly, drug-induced ideas about post prom. I will NOT do it. I will NOT do it…</p>
<p>I’ve always been secretly relieved we live in a house that – according to our children – no one can come to because there’s nowhere to go and nothing to do. Leave those post-prom parties to people with finished basements, I say! And God bless them for doing it!</p>
<p>^^^^</p>
<p>Had to look, had to jump in and ask the person who called your coments “low and irrelevant” why the hatin’. Don’t know what her issue was; guess she doesn’t like a thread that makes small talk over the “importat” issues such as politics. Good Grief!</p>
<p>We can’t have people going around making snide comments about the postings of a Terp mom! Especially a drinking buddy from the alley!</p>
<p>OMG I have wandered into the Alley battered and bruised from the larger community on many an occasion.</p>
<p>I think actually we have swinging doors on the Alley, like the old Western saloons in the movies. </p>
<p>Imagine, all the denizens muttering on the naugahyde, the clink of melting ice, the plants in macrame hangers dropping their leaves silently, DVDs of old fashion shows, clueless son’s drumming performances, and marmots in chorus lines play on the old TV behind the bar. Twinkling lights strung all around, for Chanukah, Mardi Gras, Christmas, Luaus…</p>
<p>Bang! The doors swing open with a crash. Astrophysicsmom backs in, stumbling, spurs a-jangling, spouting low and irrelevant statements. </p>
<p>The Alley stops, for a moment, and stares. The bartender reaches under the counter and pulls out the umbrellas and the Captain Morgans and the pineapple juice and the coconuts and hooks up the IV. Astrophysicsmom collapses on the floor. We hook her up.</p>
<p>Or, if it was REALLY bloody out there, we call the marmots who bring the chicken basket chariot to escort her to the hot tub. The IV follows.</p>
<p>It always feels better in the morning, because virtual overdoing it has no sideffects…</p>
<p>And if you’d rather have a Red Whip, or Beernuts, just let us know:).</p>
<p>ROFL </p>
<p>I love your images, Alumother…it’s like I am there. Wait! I AM!!! And Captain Morgan is just fine by me.</p>
<p>^^^ I think you described my post-prom party , alu :D</p>
<p>Seriously, you got SA envisioned to a T, but you forgot the Fleur-de-lis string lighting (unless it was temporary…)</p>
<p>Nah, I didn’t forget, that’s the Mardi Gras lighting…once you string ANYTHING up in the Alley it stays there.</p>