a breather...

phew...what a day. I stayed home all day...with Samuel and Evelyn and Suzanne and Sonja and Jonathan and Charlotte Claire and Camille and their cousin Olivia. It hasn't been a difficult day, nor a bad day. But busy. I was nice and let Char and Camille help wrap Suzanne's birthday presents. She won't mind if a few of them look awful. They liked helping SO much. Suze is getting a whole pile of presents because I shopped at the dollar store...pencils and markers and sticky notes and push-pins (kids love to hang things on their walls. ruins the walls, but....)paper and watercolors and paintbrushes, a few bracelets and a couple of necklaces. Then the little girls left my room and Evelyn helped me fill the goody bags.

I took Rosie out a few times, it now about 18 degrees but the wind has died down a bit.

We had chicken soup and biscuits for lunch....then a few hours later we had tea, all of us except for Sam. He said we were being idiots, I don't know why....doesn't everyone put make chocolate mustaches with their cookies? We also had some leftover Hershey valentine kisses and some super-yummy chocolates I got at Aldi after Christmas. After the littler kids got down from the table, Olivia and Evelyn and Jonathan and Suze and I played in the candles....I spooned the hot wax onto the table and they dipped their fingers in it....we made a pretty big mess, but it was fun...then Camille got it into her head that she wanted to watch Cayou, and I just didn't want them sitting in front of the tv, so I suggested the older kids help her set up dollhouse stuff....now the whole livingroom is set up. Jonathan has an airport and a truckstop.....Evelyn and Olivia have a huge house set up......uh-oh, Jonathan crashed a minivan into their house....

Sonja is playing Wii dance....and it is time for dinner....I made chicken wings. Barbecue, and Buffalo hot wings. And two trays of garlic bread. And celery and carrots....it is all ready to eat, I just wanted to take a breather and not interrupt their nice dollhouse play....so off we go for a nice cozy dinner.....