1. Make sure you state on the invitation the pick up time for the next morning so the kids do not linger around all day.
2. Tell the birthday child that she can only invite 7 guests because party plates/cups etc come in packs of 8.
3. Put together a "midnight munchies" basket for the snackers otherwise you could wake up to your kitchen looking like a bomb hit it!
4. Allow your older kids to sleep elsewhere otherwise they will just whinge and complain from 5.30pm to 10am the next morning about the noise and how everyone is annoying.
5. 2 weeks prior to the sleep over, be sure to tell your husband that the sleep over is in 14 days. Continue to do this EVERY DAY, counting down up to the moment that the guests start to arrive otherwise he will tell you that he didn’t know that the party was TONIGHT!
6. If you don’t want to run out of hot water in the morning when all the guests want to have a shower, tell them to head outside and have the husband standing ready with super soakers and water balloons.
7. Make sure you have a bottle of scotch, or your preferred stiff drink, for when the last guest goes home – even though it will only be 10am but you won’t care because it will have been the longest, sleepless night in your entire life.
