Things I've learned today

1) Don't try to explain to the man selling clothes outside the store (while he is following you and your four children across a busy street to get to the car!) why you don't want to buy his beautiful green linen skirt because it is a maternity skirt. The words French words for pregnant, having a baby, and pregnancy are apparently not in his vocabulary. Of course, neither is "No, I don't need that" so I guess I was just expecting a little too much.

2) When baking pumpkin bread, don't leave to feed the baby and ask Emilie (our house help) to get it out of the oven when it's "a little more firm in the middle." It's a little more firm all right! =)

3) When you see a large hairy spider on the porch, don't step on it. When you do, the hair might turn out to be hundreds of tiny baby spiders who suddenly spread in every direction, including in the front door.

4) Cockroach spray does not kill large no-longer-quite-as-hairy spiders, or their offspring. At least not quickly. Neither do Crocs, apparently, as this is the same spider stepped on in #4!

5) Elayna can't swim. (OK, I did know this one, but usually we try not to test it out without her floaties! She was only under for a few seconds before Kira yelled, and she was rescued. No worse for the wear, she jumped right back in once her floatie was on.)

6) Don't bother making potato salad with boiled eggs. Just make boiled eggs. It's the only part the kids eat willingly anyway.

So, much wiser than yesterday, ;) I sign off to go make sticky buns for my weary husband after his L-O-N-G day of flying.