The Daily Hailey

My mom came over this afternoon! Dekker raced upstairs to meet her and didn’t let her come downstairs to see Laela and I for a good long while. When I was finished feeding Miss L, we ventured upstairs to find them, where Dekker clearly wanted her to himself for a while. We made our way downstairs eventually and my kids pretty much ran my mom ragged until they went to bed a couple of hours later.

It was so nice to have some quiet time once they were down. We talked about work that needs to be done in both of our lives. My parents have a few jobs looming, while our tasks are more like doing big cleaning projects. Our bedroom is atrocious, for one thing. Now that Laela is out of our room, I’m anxious to get her cradle out too. The cradle stayed in our room for probably over a year after Dekker moved out. I don’t want that again. Plus, it is really easy to not nap the kids together if it doesn’t line up perfectly, and I don’t want t get back into that habit. So the cradle has to go. And the change table. And the HUGE mess! Our walk-in closet is also a large mess. I purged my clothes a while back in an effort to get rid of everything I genuinely don’t like or never wear. Apparently my style has changed!! Thats a fun comparison. Ready?

Current first. I bit serious, but I feel weirder smiling for selfies, to be honest.

And before!!! So different hey? And I swear, completely unintentional!!!

But I didn’t tidy anything else in there, and I needed to. Theres even still a big bag of clothes and garbage in the closet. Such a mess. Neeeeeds to be cleaned! I did the kids clothes though! It was heartbreaking to take out sooo much stuff that they’ve outgrown! Yet, they still have more than enough.

All of Laela’s stuff that doesn’t fit anymore…

And Dekkers. Sooo many little boy tshirts!

Yet we clearly aren’t going without! We are way too lucky to have so much.

My mom and I laid out the garden plan that we’ll hopefully put in sooner than later. We’re keeping it really basic so we can tend to it well without too much trouble. I’m glad to at least have it all written out. And I put together the music schedule for the next four months of church. Well, almost. Still trying to get a hold of a couple more people, but the longest part is over. The rest of the info I have to gather won’t make or break what I’ve already done. Yay!

With all of that, I’m tired. Its just about time for the kids to go to bed, and I’m blogging at the table as they play. I like having Laela up in a highchair now so we can all be on the same level. Not sure what took me so long!