The Daily Hailey

I felt like a college student today. As I’ve said before, the move seemed to take the wind out of me to a degree, and its just taking a bit to get me back to feeling normal. After a WONDERFUL sleep last night, I went ahead with todays plans of going to spend the day with my mom. The plan was laundry.

Now I know, I have a fully functional setup here, and I am more than capable of doing my own laundry. I have for years and years. But everyday tasks are hard these days, and my mom recognizes that. Instead of making me feel like an invalid, she invited me over for the day, and offered that I could bring my laundry and do it there. I decided to accept the loving offer, as I am in NO position not to accept help!, and I brought it all over this morning. While I technically “did my laundry,” I never folded a load on my own, and I definitely didn’t complete each transfer myself. My mom was there to be that mom that does her daughters laundry, even when her daughter is a capable mother of almost four children. Maybe it was because I am that daughter that she helped. She loves us. It shows. We sure love her too.

We had a completely lovely day together. Laundry rolled on, we watched some tv so the kids could feel restful, Rowan slept ALL afternoon, no lie. We ate well, visited well, and rested well. With our recent move, and our plans to build in the future, we made a ballsy move in December and reserved a local post office box in town there, where we hope to build. I snuck away briefly at one point in the afternoon to officially open it, and get our keys. It was a weirdly exciting and monumental moment for me 🙂 We are getting closer! Or at least our mail is…

We got home at a decent time, fed the kids some leftover mac and cheese, and they’re now in bed. They went down fairly happily, which was a nice surprise. Dekker had been SO sad to leave grandma and grandpa’s house, but he had a little nap in the van and seemed refreshed for the rest of the evening.

Now that everyone is sleeping, I am SO HUNGRY!!! Come here to me, leftover spaghetti… *wiggles eyebrows*