There really is no bottom, you know?

October 10, 2010.

It was a beautiful night, really.  We had a friend over with her two kids for dinner.  Sydney and Ally ate dinner with us as well.  The plan was to go to the park and watch a movie on those big blow up screens.  Sydney and Ally, however, decided they were going to go to a movie at the theatre.  John, in wisdom, stayed back with them. While Stephanie, Ashley, Campbell, Jenna and I head to the park, John drove the girls to the theatre and even watched them walk toward the window. 

After the movie, our friend went home and we all went to bed.  I have always been a good sleeper.  I go, go, go until I crash.  And then I sleep like a rock.  All those years of having "momma" ears and waking up to the least little whimper or whine were LONG gone!  I was out.  But your momma instinct never goes away.  Even with my phone only on vibrate, I awaken at 12:30 am to answer a call from a dear family friend (the one I mentioned earlier who treats my kids as her own).  Sydney has been dropped off in front of her house.  Her friend, only 15 and with no license, took her mother's car and drove, drunk, to drop Syndey off in the street...passed out in her own vomit.

Megan tried to get Sydney upstairs, but couldn't carry her dead weight.  So she gets her big brother to carry Sydney upstairs in their house.  Megan, more like a sister than friend, has put her in the shower to clean her up and changed her clothes.  In all this, she could not get Sydney to wake up.  Scared, she awakens her parents.  Mona and Joe have tried to arouse her and cannot.  This is when Mona calls me.  

I'm awake now.