DD doesn't want to spend her 15th birthday with us...

[anorak]

It's today. She explained that her friends want to spend all day with her from the moment she wakes till the moment she goes to sleep. She knows I won't have 6 friends to sleep over when dh has to get up for work, so she went to her friend's house last night (Hi Christie!!) and says she is sleeping there tonight as well. I had to INVITE her and her friends here for cake and umbrelly fruity cocktails just so I can give her her pressies and cards . Is this normal?

Hooray! Have a good time. You are a great mum and she's, for all her past problems, does sound just like a very teenagery teenager.

I'm waiting up for her now, she and her 5 friends have gone out teen clubbing, and are due back at midnight.

I've never let her out this late before, but I know she does when she is staying at friends. I also wouldn't think to let her get the bus back, but since there are 6 of them I thought no pervert would dare attack them

She even kissed my BF twice today - unheard of! BF is a very forthright woman and the two of them normally don't get on!

anorak - don't think antihistamines would be a problem - was thinking about things like Sudafed syrup.

Thaks M2S - If DH is being advised about this he has not shared it with me. So your knowledge is reassuring.

Jan, your smiley says it all - it comes from one who knows! I just hope they are not going to come home and wreck the place and/or keep us awake all night! But I have had a word with DD before she went out and she knows she is personally responsible for her friends' conduct.

no i doubt that your dh has been told this - my mum was actually told by her GP, who treated her BP, to take Sudafed for a chronic cough (caused by her BP medication!), when in actual fact Sudafed and similar nasal decongestants put BP up - she only discovered at a somewhat later date from another doctor that she shouldn't be using it!

Our GP is great normally, but I suppose either he has told DH and DH did not tell me, or that perhaps he is just human and missed something out.

They are home...ooh scary!

Well they didn't trash the house or keep us awake. I think the fact that she thought I wouldn't agree to let her friends stay and then I did helped.

Apart from a few crisp packets and the aftermath of pancake-making in the kitchen the only mess is the 6 bodies crashed all over my living room floor! And DD has even collected all the dirty plates and glasses and put them in the kitchen, wonders will never cease!