Sunday Mornings and Boston

KK is leaving for Paris today with her students so we gave her an appropriately chaotic send off in Boston with board games, potato chips, dress up and, naturally, a few cannoli's from the North End! Annie couldn't take her eyes off of her auntie - following her around the room whenever she wasn't holding her and even planting a big fat wet one on her mouth. KK is always a popular target for my kids first kisses - although her godson christened her mouth with spit up long before he christened it with a kiss!

So the big activity for the afternoon.............Peter and Molly giving us a fashion show from KK's closet. No seriously, they spent at least an hour trying on KK's clothes, shoes, jewelery and purses! As you can see - my son is quite the fashion afficionado - especially when it comes to high heels and accessories! Molly was more interested in trying out her Hannah Montana moves in front of the mirror while wearing KK's shirt.

We were in line at Modern Pastry at 9 p.m. last night and didn't leave Boston until 10:30. Bob and I settled into bed at 1 a.m. assuming that the kids would sleep late today and guess what............they did! Well, okay, Annie only slept an extra 15 minutes despite an extra bottle but we'll take what we can get at this point! We just finished relaxing in front of the fire reading the paper - translation - we tried to read a paragraph of each front page item while feeding Ann, fielding constant questions about why we want to read the boring paper, making 3 different breakfast items for each child and supervising our children's very independant play. (Indepedant play is that which takes place right at our feet rather then in the playroom busting at the seems with every toy imaginable because it is "too boring up there").

So my miniscule task for the day is to put all the kids in their matching and adorable St. Patty's Day shirts and try to take a picture before Annie falls, Peter hits Molly and Molly hurts Peter's feelings by making fun of his smile - Yes, We've done this before but we keep trying! I am going to appreciate the portraits Auntie Kate has of her 6 kids so much more the next time I see them - how the heck did she do it????