My SO left me tonight to go on a date...:D

[eyesroll]

He's attending a "Daddy Daughter Dance" with his three-year-old. (Awww....)

She's been sick all week, but this was such a big deal to her that he wasn't going to keep her from it unless she was projectile vomiting or running a high fever or whatnot. (She had a quick barf reaction to her medication earlier today, but rebounded and is otherwise sniffly but seems OK.) She left in good spirits, and they should be back shortly.

Now, here's the question:
When they get back, is she going the be bouncy/bubbly/excited about how fun everything was and impossible to get to sleep, OR will she be overtired and whiny and stomping and impossible to get to sleep? (It's only two miles from here, so she likely won't fall asleep in the car -- otherwise, as she wakes quickly and crying when removed from the car, #2 would be a given.)

edited, because "whatnot" and "not" are whatnot the same thing.

[terrya]

1. She'll be bouncy/bubbly

I suspect you'll be hearing EVERYTHING about this. She was looking forward to it...and since she was sick, she may have thought that she wasn't going to get to go. So...she'll be telling you all about it. :-)

[eyesroll]

7. She usually fixates on one detail.

I'll be hearing the play-by-play from J.

Kiddo will likely tell me about the girl who spilled punch on her dad's tie or something.

[miss_american_pie]

2. That is so sweet

Are they serving snacks (ie sugar) at the dance? That would be the trifecta: excited, overtired, and sugared up.

[eyesroll]

5. I imagine there's some food...cookies and punch, dunno.

She hasn't eaten much today (see: illness)...but there's always room for that...

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. She will be bouncy and happy with lots to tell you...and then

she will drift off when her head hits the pillow. :hi:

[eyesroll]

4. See, that would be ideal...but the girl tends to fight sleep at night.

(She damn near fell asleep at the breakfast table, but that's another story.)

I suspect it'll be ugly (and loud) but relatively quick.

[xmas74]

6. Bouncy and bubbly.

My daughter went to one last week w/ my father. She talked for two hours straight when she got home!

Lots of cookies, sherbet punch, etc.

(BTW-she's gone w/ my father for the past couple of years now. The first song always seems to be "My Girl" or "Puppy Love". Friends in other states have said those two seem to be the top songs too)

[eyesroll]

8. Eek.

I'm getting over a cold myself...I don't think I have the stamina for two hours... :D

And I'm getting cold (and piano recital flashbacks!) just reading about sherbet punch (it's -5 degrees right now).

[xmas74]

9. But she'll love it.

Pretty party dresses, punch and cookies, flowers(ours gave each of the girls a carnation) and dancing.

She is still talking about it a week later.

[eyesroll]

11. Kiddo's wearing a princess dress!

It's leftover from Halloween, and she insisted. It had a matching tiara but who knows where it went. (At least she doesn't have the sense of entitlement a "princess" connotes -- as far as she's concerned, a princess is another type of superhero or something.)

Her dad's in a suit he once wore on a date with me! :D

[xmas74]

17. My daughter wore her newest dress-

the one she has already picked out for Easter. And she had to have her hair "up", w/ flowers in it.

[Left Is Write]

10. She'll be bouncy and excited but very tired.

Maybe, as a special treat after her special night, she can snuggle up with you two and watch a quiet show or video in her jammies so she can get sleepy and drift off to dream.

[eyesroll]

12. No TV here, but she watched a couple of "Miss Spider" segments

on the computer while getting nebulized.

Then she screamed bloody murder for a few minutes, and refused to brush her teeth or go potty or anything....she did manage to get a pull-up and her jammies on (with much help), and now, she's wide-awake but exhausted and refusing to do anything but sing the months of the year...

It's going to be a long night.

[Left Is Write]

14. "Oh, these are the months of the year...fill them with joy and with cheer!

The months of the year!"

I hope she wound up getting a good night's sleep so you could too.

[eyesroll]

16. She crashed HARD around 10.

Woke up around 6. It could be worse.

[Ellen Forradalom]

13. that's soooooo precious

:-)

[Magrittes Pipe]

15. Wow.

Do ALL your SOs leave to go on dates with other girls? :evilgrin: