Fabulous day

Last night we had four adults and six girls: 20, 17, 10, 9, 5 and 3.  Even in a pretty spacious house that's a lot of people and it could have been a disaster, but it just really worked.  All four of the big girls were amazing with the little girls and all six of them seemed to really enjoy picking raspberries and blueberries, lettuce, cucumbers, zucchini, onions, garlic, mulberries, rhubarb and a huge cabbage, feeding the chooks, playing on the stilts and just exploring.

Last night we had chirashi-zushi and DIY ice-cream smushees for dessert: all those berries with pineapple, banana, orange, apricot, plum and coconut smushed into vanilla ice-cream.  Yummmm.

After talking until 1:00am, this morning everyone chipped in to get a brekky of fried eggs, scrambled eggs, bacon, salad, bread, pancakes, rice, fruit salad, juice, and coffee.  I was so impressed to watch the 10 and 9 year old work in the kitchen.  The 9 yo made scrambled eggs with me once and then (when they were so good everyone polished them off before M had any) she cooked them again all by herself.  Wow.  Only four more years, Meg...

After collecting some veggies we all made pizzas for lunch and totally amazing yuzu puddings that S's nieces brought with them- thanks girls!

It was really great having S and her family here and it's sooo quiet now they've all gone.  And the icing on the cake?  S took some amazing photos and said I could share them here!  So: 

A taking a rest at the big garden

M picking (and obviously eating!) mulberries

Very seriously making pizza

Wow, when you see it like this maybe all that effort making straight lines wasn't such a bad idea after all...

She even made my front door look good!