I Go to a Boarding School

@eftelingrose Thank you for passing this on. I cannot play the link in the UK, but I think I can find it elsewhere and I will like watching it 🙂

The joke passed off perfectly and they actually did a very good job of not giggling too much and keeping each other awake all night 🙂 Of course Katya and I were very "surprised" when we went into wake them up this morning 😄 Tuesday is laundry day, so we put all the sheets, duvet covers and pyjamas out for wash and no one got too grumpy about who had slept in whose bed last night 😌

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@TammieBear You are so welcome, my sister! I am sorry that you cannot play this link in the UK. :( However, I am happy that you would like to find the video by other means that work for you, and watch it! Please enjoy :)

I am glad that the joke unfolded in a perfect way, and that the girls didn't giggle too much so that you could all get some sleep. Katya and you must have been the most wonderful big sisters when you woke them up in the morning! I am glad that things worked out perfectly, and that you could then do the laundry, and no one could complain too much about or get too territorial over their beds! That is such a sweet story, and thank you so much for sharing it! :)

P.S.: I know that it has been a long time since we have last talked, and my apologies. :( However, I have some exciting news and things to prepare for now, which I will be more than happy to tell you about before too long! Lots of love to you! 💖💖💖

@eftelingrose I found a British version of that documentary and it was really sweet. They are just like our girls . . playful, mischievous and cute, but also capable of being very mature and sensitive at times. Katya and I are just as lucky to have such lovely little sisters 😌

Btw, bed spaces are swappable (although they are supposed to stay in their own dorms). But the top bunk (there is one bunk bed in each dorm) is jealously guarded by the girl in possession . . not even I have been allowed to sleep on top during our occasional sleepovers 😄

No need to apologise, but please let me know your exciting news when you have time 🙂

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@TammieBear I am so glad that you were able to find a British version of the documentary, and that you thought it was very sweet! ☺ I can bet that the girls in the video are a lot like your girls, and your vivid description helps me to imagine how they must be in real life! Thank you. 💖 I am sure that they are all just as lucky to have you and Katya as lovely big sisters, too! 😌It’s a good thing that the beds are swappable, even if you have to stay in your assigned room. It is interesting that there is only one bunk bed in each room. I am sorry that you haven’t been allowed to sleep on the top bunk, concerning that you are one of the oldest girls there. Does just one girl selfishly guard the top?! 😬 You have my sympathy. 😔
I hope to tell you about my news soon; However, I don’t want to sound complicated, but there are a lot of things going on in the process, and so what I want to hopefully share with you isn’t exactly set in stone! I don’t mean to be too presumptuous. 🤐

In the meantime as entertainment, though, I found a video of “Boys Alone”, and watched this one in full a few days ago. I know that you probably won’t be able to watch this link out by you again, unfortunately, but hopefully seeing the thumbnail will help you to get a glimpse of what the boys look like so that you’ll be able to find the correct working video for you if you are interested (No pressure, though!). One of my favorite parts is when it is about 12 minutes into the video after the boys have settled into the house, and one of them begins messing around with the tabletop football/soccer game by throwing things at it. As a result, the game produced some weird (in my words) spaceship-like noises, and sounded a really annoying fanfare. On the couch, the only red-headed kid in the group named Sam was getting annoyed, and asked him to turn the game off, followed by saying “Shut up!” at least twice. 😄 Another one of my favorite parts is when it is about at 33:20, where the boys decide to make their group game outside “Hunt the Hedgehog”, and the title speaks for itself! I, and a dear person from real life, laughed so hard when watching this part again and again, but I felt especially bad for the hedgehog when I saw a rustling in the bushes that indicated that there was a living thing that was trying to escape (the Disney Princess part of me just wanted to say, “Don’t! You’re going to hurt the poor thing with the weapons, and it’s afraid of you!”)! Last but not least, at 34:50 in the video, and it is one of the boys’ last nights in the house, and when some of the boys are play-fighting in one of the rooms upstairs, one of them boys says, “Do you know this is a dangerous place?”, another says “It’s a war zone.”, and then the kicker is: “Anyone can die at any time!” while one of the most troublesome kids named Michael begins to play horror-like organ music from the keyboard on his lap! 😄 Despite the craziness, I also thoroughly enjoyed this documentary, and I hope that you enjoy it if and when you get the chance to see it! For some reason, if I were only to have one child, I think that I would want a boy, probably because I would feel more maternal when raising a boy as opposed to a girl, but who knows?... I have not been a mother yet! ☺
Here is the video, so at least you have a thumbnail reference!: [media=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bCePbRdQmbE]
Please take care, my sweet sister, and I hope that you have a wonderful start to your weekend! With love from me to you! 💖💖💖

@eftelingrose Oddly enough, I can watch this one 🤔 I will do so later, because this is a really fun idea.

Use of the top bunk rotates weekly after laundry day. The girl whose turn it is jealously guards her territory, so not even a big sister is allowed a turn 😕

At that age, I would prefer girls, but any older I think boys are less complicated to look after 🙂

@eftelingrose I just have to add in reference to “Boys Alone”... Save the hedgehogs, don’t Hunt the Hedgehog! I went to a petting zoo this past Saturday while I have been visiting the North Woods region of the US, and in the nursery area of the zoo, there were two pens of baby hedgehogs! 💖 There were three babies sleeping in a little secure trinity at the back of their cage. However, I still decided to reach my hand in (it was allowed by the employees if a cage door was already open!). When I went to stroke the back of one of the hedgehogs, I was surprised by how the quills were not quite as spiky as I anticipated, and they were more like grains of dried rice, as they were rounded-off. At about the moment I touched him or her, though, I almost instantly regretted it, as it shuddered like a child, and I felt as if she was saying “Oh!” in alarm. 😞 I gave her an apology, and came back to the cage a little later. This time, the hedgehogs had more energy, and walked around, scratched themselves like a dog or a rabbit, and even ate some dried corn and bits of a cake cone that I dropped in for them earlier. I was told by one of the employees that it was rare for the hedgehogs to have this energy during the day, as they tend to be nocturnal animals. I took this as a good thing, and that the creatures were reciprocating my feelings of love and awe for them! 🤗 Here they are asleep in the trinity as the cutest things! 💖 Again, Save the Hedgehogs! They’re like children. ☺

@eftelingrose They are so cute 🤗 I don't know what it is about hedgehogs, but they seem destined to be bullied and harassed by boys and other animals 🙄 My neighbour's cat used to terrorise hedgehog visitors to our garden. He would steal the water and biscuits we left out for them (admittedly they were cat biscuits) and when he found one he would frighten it into rolling up in a ball and the roll it around the garden with his paws like a football 😟

I am so glad that you think they are cute! I know, hedgehogs always seem to be at the mercy of boys and predator animals. 😕 That is sad that your neighbor’s cat found fun in terrorizing the hedgehogs who came to your garden. The meanie, taking the food that was rightfully theirs... Ugh! And then he kicks them around like a football! 😫 A little bear cub or little bunny wouldn’t dare do such a thing! Thank you for your prior help in aiding the hedgehogs, my dear sister! 💖