This last little while, I’ve been sleeping way harder than I usually do. I write a lot of that off as the winter weather moving in, and the night being longer and darker. There was even light snow yesterday!! That is a totally logical explanation to me, and I think its definitely a big part of it. Last night specifically, I slept SO hard. Brady and I both slept in, and I had to pee SO badly when I woke up. The kind of “badly” where normally, I’d have woken up to pee in the night. But I did not. Because I was sleeping SO hard.
And then I took stock of yesterdays events.
Yesterday, in preparation for a late family thanksgiving, Brady and I moved two tables from our house into my moms house, along with chairs, leafs, a turkey, and some jugs of water. Poorly timed water main break on the street :/
Shortly thereafter, we finally found her the table on Facebook marketplace! We’ve been searching for literal months to find her something nice, and big, and sturdy, and affordable. And it finally showed up yesterday!! So we all piled into the big vans and went to Saskatoon to retrieve it! We needed Brady’s van to haul it, but two people to carry it.
So we hauled that table out of someone house, and down their flight of stairs. In the loading of the table, Brady’s numb legs misstepped and he fell flat on his back on the sidewalk. So that wasn’t ideal, but God protected him, and so far, nothing has gotten worse or gone out since then. We loaded the new table into the van, and brought it back to moms!
Mom lovingly took our kids home, and Dekker helped her get Wavy into her crib and to bed! Everyone else was reading books and hanging out in the living room while Brady and I got the new table into moms place, while simultaneously removing the two tables we’d brought there earlier 😅 It wasn’t as much of a gong show as it sounds, but it was definitely a laugh. Thankfully, the two tables we moved to and from were both those cute old fashioned chrome ones, so they weren’t so heavy at all.
Once we had moved everything where it belonged, we drove home. Brady immediately grabbed his socket set and headed back to moms, so he could put the table legs on. Mom went with him, and I’ve got to say, the table is PERFECT for her!!! What an answer to prayer!
Brady got home and was still feeling surprisingly good, so we decided to push it and move the new cabinet into the house! Eek!!! He had finished painting it the day before, and it was all set and cured and ready. He took the drawers out, and we slowly worked it into the house, up our stairs, and into the main area. I’ll show it to you soon, I promise 😉 But its a total win. I’m SO thankful! I had my eye on an Ikea cabinet for a couple of years already, but at $400, we couldn’t just pick it up whenever we felt like it. The cabinet we landed on was $10, and the paint to fix it up was $20. Praise the Lord!
On top of ALL the hauling of furniture yesterday, Brady bathed all five kids, and I did six loads of laundry. And! Everyone stayed alive, so they fed them even!!
Man! Just writing that all out makes me want to go back to sleep, haha! Pretty sure we earned that hard sleep last night! But, up and at ’em! Its our Thanksgiving today!! We’ll be off shortly to spend the day with my mom, and I’m SO looking forward to it!
Happy Sunday, friends!