Once again, our plans to go to church were dashed. I was up for hours in the middle of the night, completely anxious and overwhelmed. I ended up waking Brady up, and he had also been sleeping very lightly and not well. We watched a bit of tv together and fell back to sleep finally. But thanks to that, we decided to stay home. Yes, we could have pushed through, but honestly, after getting the kids up, it felt like we made the right call.
Everyone was SO happy to stay tucked in for the day while the grey day blew away outside. We made a yummy feed of waffles and breakfast sausage for brunch, and the kids played for the rest of the morning. Rowan had a weird, fat hand today, and I’m not entirely sure why. Its puffy all the way up to his elbow! I pulled his arm out of his sleeve so I could note how high up his arm was swollen, and he opted to slip out of his shirt for the remainder of the morning. I was fine with that. It was easier to keep an eye on his arm and make sure it wasn’t growing, and also, shirtless Ro is also ultra-soft Ro. The rest of the kids took this as their cue to join the shirtless parade, so we’ve enjoyed that immensely 🙂
It goes without saying, but we’ll be watching that chubby hand and arm, and hopefully it’ll go down soon. Ro is our kid who swells like crazy when he gets a bug bite of any kind, much much more than the other kids. He’s been using his hand fine and has reassured me over and over that he’s ok 🙂 So we just watch.
While the little boys napped, Dekker and Laela watched the Peanuts movie, and Brady and I played SkipBo. It was a very relaxing afternoon!
Brady opted to take the big kids out to the garage to bike around a bit while he did a bit of work on his bike, so I’m cuddled up in bed trying to warm my body up! Brrr! Does anyone else get chilled super easily when they’re overtired? I do! And the weather isn’t helping! But my bed will. Can’t complain about that!
I hope you all had a nice, relaxing weekend 🙂 Reality begins once again tomorrow, on the ONE day this week where we have nothing booked! Woot for an easy Monday!