One Long Sleepover!: Cody

When we were kids, we didn’t get to have many sleepovers, so I was really excited when I was told that I could sleep over at grandpa and grandma Roskelley’s house. I remember being dropped off on a beautiful summer evening after dinner. Dad told me that he would pick me up the next day on his way home from work.

Well, that night was not so fun after all. Grandma Roskelley sent me to bed around 7:30. I was very upset because it was still light outside. I remember crying myself to sleep. In the morning, grandpa fixed me a very big bowl of cereal, and then made me sit at the table until I finished it. I swear I sat at his table all morning long trying to finish that soggy cereal. When I did finally finish, grandma gave me some carrots and told me that I could feed Babe (Babe was the little black pony in the pasture behind grandpa’s house).

While I was feeding Babe, Ruthanne (the single woman who lived in the one bed-room shack behind grandpa’s house), saw me and started to talk to me. She was very kind, and asked me if I liked Jello. I told her that I loved Jello, so she invited me into her house to have some. After a while, I heard grandpa calling for me, so I told Ruthanne that I better go.

When grandpa saw me walking from Ruthanne’s little shack, he was very upset with me and told me that he could not find me, so as punishment he gave me a five gallon bucket of peas (still in their pods) that he had picked from his garden, and told me that I had to open all the pods, and dump the peas in a separate bowl. I spent the rest of the day sitting in a lawn chair in grandpa’s backyard getting peas out of their pods. I thought that dad was never going to come. Finally after what seemed to be an eternity, dad picked me up and took me home. After my wonderful experience, I never asked to sleep at grandpa and grandma Roskelley’s house again.