Brady and I woke up completely out of sync with each other this morning. Promise me its not just us that this happens to occasionally :/ We seemed to scrap about everything. The kids were great, cute, eating breakfast happily, and we were just making it work.
We needed to decide on how to run our day, that was the biggest thing. Brady has had yesterday and today off, and after that, he is working every day until Christmas. So, today could hold a number of difference scenarios.
1. We could Christmas shop.
2. We could finish as many things on my list of stuff to do around the house as possible.
3. We could go to the city and run a bunch of errands.
I figured we shouldn’t Christmas shop, since we were already grouchy, and I wanted that to be fun. Same with errands, as our kids have been a bit touch-and-go to say the least, and an errand day could be a bit much. So that left the house list. We completed one task and fought the entire time. It was then that I decided we wouldn’t do much if anything today. We would do our best to enjoy the day as our last quiet day.
So thats what we did. We played downstairs and watched a bit of tv in our jammies. Dekker got a Playskool basketball hoop for his birthday and its always been used upstairs. Knowing that it will soon be in the way of a Christmas tree, we opted to move it downstairs. That went over very well with Dekker, as he has even more room to run at it and throw harder. The kids went down for their nap amazingly well, with almost no fussing at all!!! That was a HUGE win!
Once they were down, Brady drove to a small nearby town to pick up a new-to-us Keurig!! Our machine is just about shot, and doesn’t brew half the time. I’ve been really tossing up the idea of getting either a new regular Keurig, or potentially a Rivo, which brews all the yummy milky drinks. But we hadn’t weighed the options and prices yet! Luckily, someone about five minutes away was selling almost exactly the machine we’re used to for $50. So we jumped at it, leaving room to potentially get the Rivo down the line.
When Brady arrived home, we watched a YouTube video while eating a snack he picked up for me, and then we got to “work” Christmasifying our home. Not to the max, but we started. We took down some old decor and put up our nativity scene, some candles, and a few decorative, sparkly things. We finished up just in time for the kids to wake up.
Pigs in a blanket for supper was a BIG hit, and we played downstairs and watched the Duggars until it was time to tidy up and go to bed. Dekker didn’t even whine once about cleaning up the toys, and get this. Laela put toys away!!! Yes, she promptly pulled them back out, but she knew where certain things went even! So funny how we didn’t start enforcing the tidying until Dekker was three, and now at one, Laela knows the rules. So cool 🙂
Ok, off to have a Duggar date with Brady, haha! The new episode is on and for some reason, I want to keep up with this season! So we’re off. Sleep well, all!
** And screw you, WordPress, for no longer auto-saving drafts, and making me write this post out twice. Much appreciated.