Brady doesn’t often book holidays off. Last summer, I finally took the kids and my mom and we went to the lake for a few days. While he was in full support of it, I think it bugged him that he missed it, and it motivated him to book an actual week off this summer. Conveniently, he was able to get this Friday off as well, and this was before we realized that August 3rd was also a stat! So we accidentally have a week and a half together! Woot!
Needless to say, we took our time getting up this morning. It wasn’t the smoothest night for us. Dekker and Laela are both rocking colds, and Rowans is still pretty fresh, so he’s all nice and stuffed up. Laela just has the occasional drippy nose but she’s on the mend. Dekker hasn’t gotten sick yet but the likelihood of it coming is high. Anyway, we’re rolling with the punches.
We spent the morning with the kids, and planned to put them down for an early nap. Dekker wasn’t thrilled with the idea, and asked why he needed a nap. I told him it was because we had some plans later in the day and we wanted him to be all fresh and happy. He seemed to actually comprehend it very well. He said “ok” and put up no fight whatsoever. In looking through the monitor, it took a little while for him to actually fall asleep, but he lay still and calm until he did finally drift off. When everyone woke up, we were actually running a bit behind, so we speed dressed the kids and got out the door.
Thankfully, we made it to our chiropractors office on time! They have a whole new setup over there, and instead of just going in when a room is open, we were moved to the slightly more elitist waiting room, where Dr. Mike came to retrieve us when it was our turn. You guys know I always like Dr. Mike. He didn’t even hesitate, and grabbed Rowans car seat and carried him in for us. We were overdue for treatments and I’m confident we’ll feel quite a bit better now.
We grabbed the kids some supper and headed over to Jerilee’s place. She’s moving out, and Brady and I offered to come go a few loads with the van. Its so nice that he’s so willing to flex his muscles for our friends 😉 I sat on the couch with the kids while they had their food and watched Cars on the laptop. Jerilee pulled out a bowl of yogurt raisins, which they promptly devoured, and then Jerilee’s mom brought them the ultimate treat. Dekker and Laela had their first Fudgsicles today, and they were big fans. It was cute to see them running around the living room with chocolate beards, and chocolate dripping down their bellies. Good thing we scrapped their shirts before they begun!
We moved until they wanted to be done for the day, and then took the kids to Walmart. I’m in the process of putting together a list of things we need for the lake, and while its still pretty disorganized, we figured we’d give it a try. We came out probably an hour later with almost nothing :/ It wasn’t our best haul, thats for sure, but no joke, they had hardly any summer stuff left!!! I’m completely amazed at how little there is! We still have a solid month of hot weather left! *knocks on wood* Hopefully I’ll get a bit more organized tonight and tomorrows shop will be more successful. Then we lead music in church Sunday morning, pack in the evening, and we’re off to the lake on Monday!!! I’m SO looking forward to our trip 🙂 Cute kids in their bathing suits eating fruit and cinnamon buns and ice cream for three days. My utopia.