As part of our wild night on the town I arranged to leave with children with friends of the family (Laurie’s parents). Corwin was very excited about this, asking about it in the morning and a couple of times after he got home from school. Charles had a positive attitude as well, if not quite as eager as Corwin. Alice didn’t seem to have much of an opinion one way or another.
We left them there for a long evening (about 4½ hours) but despite that the boyen were still wide awake when we picked them up. Alice had crashed out after failing to cause any sort of major or structural damage to their house.
Charles took the drop off in stride, but Corwin wasn’t clear on why his parents wanted a few hours without his companionship. I suppose it’s a symptom of just how often Mom and I go out to party. Anyway, he did at one point accuse of us wanting to do kissy stuff but I assured him that we wouldn’t be doing anything as cootie-inducing as that.