ugh, pie!

Princess Camille with her dolly...and the nice little dolly afghan her Aunt Kim made her for her birthday.
Princess Camille thinks she knows how to do ballet.
Mali, Kathryn in the back, and Emily on the end...talking to Ben and Ashley
Camille, Charlotte Claire, Sonja, and Jonathan, talking to Benjamin and Ashley on skype...showing them Kitty Kitten...

Charlotte and Camille love each other.

So...we had our brunch today. Scrambled eggs with onions, red and green peppers, and cheddar cheese. Cinnamon rolls. Baked french toast with brown sugar and butter - which carmelized and YUM, strawberries and blueberries, bacon, sausage, orange juice, coffee....we postponed the turkey dinner until tomorrow because of Emily-The-Nurse's work schedule...and she got the call as she went out the door this morning that she didn't have to come in if she didn't want to. She didn't. But she didn't know until 2:30ish if they wanted her to come in at three o'clock, so we decided not to put the turkey in the oven. She ended up here all day...we had pizza for dinner, then...pie. Apple, pumpkin, home made chocolate, and lemon merangue. I had only one small piece of each..then I finished Camille's chocolate. Ugh. But it was good. And, I had no cinnamon rolls, only one piece of French toast, and only two small slivers of pizza.

Emily and I took the little ones for a walk today. I raced Jon back to the house, and beat him. Ha, he IS only seven, but still. I surprised him.

The kids are going shopping tonight, nine of them. The new Black Friday hours start tonight at ten, so off they go with our credit card. I hope they generally keep to my list. Merry Christmas to them, right? Abigail and Mirielle and Joseph and Aaron and Mali and Sam and Margaret and Kathryn and Evelyn are going. I am staying home with Paul and the little ones...