My daughter was extremely upset because sometime between Thursday morning and last night her friends had decided to change the date of their end of summer slumber party from next weekend to last night. Since they had no way of getting in touch with her she didn’t know about the change until around 8 last night, which was too late to go. I felt so bad for her, she couldn’t stop crying, and no matter what I said or did, nothing helped. 
After crying for about an hour, she was completely drained and I knew that if she could just get some rest, she’d feel better in the morning. Being the little con artist that she is, she batted her puppy dog eyes at me and said something like “I’d feel better if you’d stay with me until I fall asleep”. That was the first sign that she was going to be OK. I gave in and grabbed my pillow and she and I flipped the channels on her TV until we found something we both liked.
The next thing I knew she was tripping out over a mosquito hawk that was on her TV. I told her if it was bothering her that bad to take a flip flop or something and kill it. The next time it landed, she swung the flip flop and made contact, but we couldn’t see where it landed so we weren’t completely sure if she had killed it or not. She then starts in saying stuff like “If I didn’t kill it, it’s going to come back and get me, maybe it will suck my blood out while I’m sleeping”, and stuff like that. We were laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes, but the next thing I knew she was flailing her arms and screaming. When she finally calmed down she told me that a mosquito hawk was flying in her face. WRONG thing to tell me…LOL!
I looked around on the stand next to her bed and found a colored pencil. I’d wait for her to drop her guard for a moment then I’d take the pencil and ever so lightly touch her hair or her arm, making her think it was the mosquito hawk….LOL! I can’t believe we didn’t wake the dogs or my husband up because of how hard we were laughing! Then, out of the middle of nowhere, she wrapped her arms around herself and said “I hug myself at night so that I know there is someone close by that cares”…….ROFL! We were having a riot, and after a couple of stressed out days, it was what we both needed!
Not having internet can stink, but it’s also brought the four of us closer too! I did manage to find a dial up connection that will work until we can get the money together, and we all take turns sitting at my hubby’s laptop to check our email and stuff. So I’m kind of back, but not completely…LOL
