We had breakfast at my parents house again this morning. We were served cinnamon buns and muffins and coffee and other delicious things. I love the special sweet breakfasts we get there sometimes. Soon after breakfast, Brady and my dad went to the backyard and tore down their old decrepit deck. I tried to video it so I could do a time lapse thing, but apparently my camera has a auto shut off “safety” feature that I didn’t know about, and it turned itself off. Merp. But it was still a good time. The kids sat in front of the patio doors almost the whole time, and watched the action, waiting eagerly for any moment that their daddy or grandpa would look up and wave at them. It was positively riveting.
Once the deck was down and loaded onto the trailer, we had a pizza lunch together, and then we headed home. We could have probably stayed longer and visited for a while, but I had made plans with Kim for the rest of the day. When we got home, I changed my clothes, kissed the kids, and drove back to the city to meet her at Michaels. We proceeded to do some shopping for both of our kids upcoming birthday parties. Laela’s bday party still doesn’t have an official date, but her middle sons party is this coming weekend! I think we got most of what we needed, so thats good.
We also made it a priority to just sit and have a little visit over coffee, rather than being on the go every moment of our time together. It was nice to just sit at Starbucks with our iced lattes and take a load off. After a while, we took a quick lap through the mall, bought one of two things, and headed out to our next destination across the city. We had less success there, but there was certainly no loss.
We were wracking our brains about what to do for supper afterwards, as we were both feeling super growly. We knew her bay boy wouldn’t sit especially well in a restaurant, but weren’t feeling especially Wendy’s or McDonalds – esque. So we ate my favorite kind of meal! We ordered deep fried pickles and KAPOW (lol!) shrimp from Montana’s. Then we stopped at a 7eleven and grabbed slurpees, corn dogs, and potato wedges. As I type this out, it sounds pretty gross, haha! It wasn’t, I promise. We were going to go park by the river and eat overlooking the water (yes, still in the van) but it was getting a bit later and we figured we shouldn’t doddle too much longer than necessary. Embarrassingly enough, we ended up at Costco. We parked until a tree in the parking lot and cracked all of the food open on the dashboard. We sat and talked with the music playing quietly in the back, keeping the baby asleep. It was SUCH a nice visit. Usually, when we hang out, we’re wrangling six kids between us, and its hard to actually converse! But this was such a good uninterrupted heart to heart. I loved it. Things are so funny. I think I can speak for both of us and say that it feels like we’ve known each other for years. And years.
I eventually drove her home and headed home myself. I was greeted by a loving husband and a hot bath that this blog is keeping me from!!! So off I go! But it was truly a lovely day in every way. Its just convenient that it rhymes. It doesn’t make it any less true.
Shoot. No cute selfie to insert here. Next time.