It's thanksgiving. My friend from my old dental school in Indonesia who lived in Chicago came to visit with his family.
We also had other 3 families over to give thanks with us with the yummiest turkey dinner and the turkey "little daughter" (humongous chicken).
I managed to sit every one on the table and had a formal dinner. The kids are all in the different table and the adults sit on our formal dining room.
Nadia and Aidan had a blast playing with the other kids. I put Aidan to bed at 10 pm and he went down again knowing that Nadia was still playing with Nicholas and Darian downstairs. The kids ended up sleeping at 12 midnight while me and two friends did our first time crazy shopping, leaving at 1 am and came back at 5 am, leaving the husbands with kids at home. On the top of it, I have them all last minute sleep over. It was really fun, the kids had blasts, and we continued the fun for having lunch together at the yummiest dimsum restaurant in town.

My friends from Chicago stayed until Sunday, and we really had a wonderful time together with their little girl, Vivian, who is 1.5 year old. The fun was that she was so happy playing outside in our yard with Nadia's teddy bear cozy and warm costume. She looked so cute in it and she had fun touching the grass and walked on the huge empty space while Nadia and Aidan drove the car around the yard. The last hour before they left, I set up the studio lights and took pictures of them and my kids for Christmas card.

Today is Aidan's babysitter's birthday, Miss Andrea.

She has been having lots of trouble in her life, money-wise.
Her car broke down, and she doesn't have health insurance. In every situation, she is a wonderful baby sitter. She used to work at my kids' old school, now I take her to be Aidan's babysitter. She is a hard worker, never complains, and my kids love her so much.

Sometimes she got in my mind, I wish I have the whole money I could spend to help her up, I could only do so much, ...

Today is her birthday, finally with help from everyone, she could fix her car, and had it back working 3 days ago, slowly things get better for her.

I took her out for nice lunch at Olive Garden, with the kids. Nadia is off school today, so Nadia stayed with Aidan and Miss Andrea in the morning while I ran around going the thanksgiving dinner shopping for our guests tomorrow. We met at the restaurant, and we all had a great time. That's the least I could do to make her happy on her birthday.

Happy birthday, Miss Andrea, we love you so much!