Who knew college all-nighters would come in handy?

This weekend we had a bonding social for my teens.  We had a “stay awake” where they came at 7 and stayed through the night, and then served in the soup kitchen in the morning.  I was so jazzed!  This is something that I’m good at!  As many of you know, I pulled hella all-nighters to cram papers in last minute, and many of these successes were due to copious amounts of RedBull.

Well, I heard through the grapevine that the RedBull marketing team will sponsor different events with lots of free product.  Obviously I jumped on that!  Why wouldn’t  extremely over-caffeinated, over-tired teenagers be a good idea?  Well I soon found out.  We had 50 cans of RedBull, and they were gone in the first 90 minutes.  This made for great participation in hundreds of games of four-square.  And then midnight rolled around.  And then things got weird… The thing about energy drinks is you either have to keep drinking them, or drink them slowly.  We all crashed, hard!  With 8 odd hours left, I thought eating would soak up some of the liquid and give a new boost of energy.  Wrong again.  TEENAGERS DIDN’T WANT TO EAT MY COOKING…….  I am going to blame the fact that I chose to buy 4 pounds of vegetables, rather than the fact that I am completely lacking the domestic trait.  Thanks mom…

 

I'm probably missing the ball here.. My talents do not lie in tennis four square.

 

Life teens finest

My attempt to be healthy

Midnight braai masters

hit them pretty hard..

 

Anyway, we made it!  The trumpet player only had to hoot twice to wake people up, so I am deeming that a success.  Of all the games that I had planned, and juicy version of Apples to Apples was the favorite.  A lot of bonding was accomplished, and I have decided that I have a pretty remarkable group of teens, and while my body disagrees with another stay awake for a LONG while, I am excited to spend more time with these scoundrels

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