I'm Going to be Lazy Today and Enjoy the Marvelous-ness of it

I feel ok this morning. At 2 am I didn't feel ok, so I'm using that as an excuse to not do anything today. I had Steve drive himself to work, so the kids and I are afoot. Julie is still asleep upstairs and it's almost 9 am. Both of the other kids have been up for a while.

If I feel like it, I'll walk down to the butcher shop to try to find some cube steak for Steve. Did I mention that I'm looking for cube steak? They sell it here, but call it flash fry or tender fry steak. The store I usually shop at doesn't have it, so I'm going to try the "Village Butchers." Maybe they can also tell me how to get on the milkman's route. The biggest milk cartons here are 6 pints. They're as tall as our gallons at home, but are skinny to fit on the doors of the fridges. The conversion is 6 UK pints = .9 US gallons. So it's almost a gallon, but we still go through them super fast. All 4 of us drink it. We have a choice of full fat milk, semi-skimmed, and skimmed milk. We get semi-skimmed - it's like our 2%.

Thanks for the info about the books, Joanie and Liz. And Terry - Steve mentioned the movie thing. We wanted to read the book before the movie came out.

I'm going to try to upload some pictures now. We'll see if it works.

Terry - I don't know if you can tell from this picture, but that's a Lego rugby game behind the kids. We told them to "smile for Uncle Terry" and this was the reaction your name elicited. Oh - that's Caleb's England football shirt. It's always his first choice of clothing if it's clean.

Caleb with Lego Hagrid and Lego Harry at the "Big Lego Shop." The store was unbelievably crowded and busy. I think everybody was trying to do their final souvenir buying before leaving the park. We got the kids little Lego people - Caleb got Batman, Penguin, and Two-Face, and Audrey got a little princess and 4 pink Lego blocks. All of the little toys and Audrey's blocks are magnets as well as Legos. I was disappointed with their selection of Lego stuff for girls. 1/10 of the store was girl stuff. I think they need to work on that. Even if they just make Lego sets that are pink airplanes or pink cars or pink Star Destroyers from Star Wars, more girls would be interested in them. Audrey would be. As it was, she really wanted the £30 dollhouse. I'm not going to pay $60 for a Lego dollhouse, although Steve was saying last night that when Caleb gets older, he (Steve) might "invest" in one of those big Lego sets and build it with Caleb. He was referring to the big Star Destroyer (or something like it) with 3500 pieces.

No more pictures. The website is being uncooperative and I hear Julie cooing upstairs.