Friday Night Camp Outs

We are WELL INTO 2018 Grandma Camp. I usually have Warren on Monday afternoon, Lilly on Wednesday afternoon, then both kids Friday afternoon. overnight, and all day Saturday. YIKES...we're doing this....

The one thing that has remained the same is the Friday night sleepover. They've been doing this for a long time. But I wanted Grandma Camp to feel special...and I remembered when my boys were growing up, how every Friday night I'd let them sleep in the living room...

At the time, we had a sofa/bed -- and the boys would open it up, and make a fort using the cushions...

So, I decided Lilly and Warren should blow up the air mattress...and they made a fort using sheets and chairs....for our Friday Night Movie, with popcorn.

Frank wanted to get in on the action...(he's a big fan of both movies AND popcorn)

The kids love learning how to do different things...and blowing up the air mattress is easy. They bring it up from the basement, flip the switch, and it blows itself up in about 3 minutes. But now it's something they look forward to doing every week.

We go to the library to pick out our movies.  Last week, Lilly and I watched Hidden Figures...IT WAS AMAZING.  This week, Warren picked another Harry Potter movie...

There are many other activities happening...

Remember this fabric starched wall in their room?  The kids sprayed it with water, and removed all the fabric.  They're going to PAINT it next...and we have another art installation planned...

Lilly looked up a recipe fdor homemade marshmallow fondant.  She has this DOWN PAT now...

And Warren?  Hummm...