Day 1.015: Precious doll

Exile #4 was at school this morning as usual, although she has spent the afternoon doing a good impression of being significantly ill. Exile #3 was home from school today with a suspected case of conjunctivitis and seems absolutely fine. Kids!

Actually, we have beautiful children - we know this because random strangers in shops tell Exile #2 such things when she's doing the grocery shopping - somehow that doesn't happen so often in Sainsbury's or Tesco.

As well as groceries, Exile #2 took Exile #4 to give her the opportunity to spend some of her Christmas money. She fell in love with a doll on first arrival and then walked around the rest of the stock before returning to her. She is 'so precious' apparently - and not in the British sense, but in the sense of the all-American way of describing other people's babies.