Cabin fever is an illness that lurks around this house a lot, and as I mentioned in my post a while back about goals for the upcoming year, I’ve decided to take action against that. Its within my power to be healthy in this particular way at least, so I claim that!
This morning, I woke up with a touch of cabin fever and we decided to counter it with a trip out of the house. We looked at our grocery list and really needed very few things. But we brainstormed a bit and thought of a few other things we could fill the day with that would need to be done soon anyway. Just because they weren’t food didn’t mean they didn’t need to be done! So we all got ready and headed out right after breakfast. I know the cold weather will eventually come back, but I’m choosing to embrace the part of me that feels like spring, so we all wore our spring jackets and I didn’t make anyone listen to Christmas music even! Go me.
Our first stop was Target. As I’m sure everyone in Canada has heard, Target is closing its doors. Its Canadian doors, anyway. I’m one of those people who isn’t particularly attached to Target to begin with, so I don’t care very much. However, I like them for a handful of things. No, for anyone wondering, the mad sales haven’t come out yet, but I didn’t want to wait for everything to be picked over. The kids sat super well while Brady and I hemmed and hawed our way through bedding and bought ourselves three new sheet sets, three new crib sheets, and a new blanket. We LOVE our blanket, and I don’t think we’ll ever replace it. We have a beautiful, custom made, extra large king blanket, and today, we purchased a thin, summery quilt. But this particular quilt I have had my eye on since the very first time I went into Target. It was time to bring it home. I also ducked into the makeup section and bought a couple e.l.f. products, since Target is the only place around who sells the brand. Hopefully I don’t really love any of it, since its kind of my last opportunity!
We grabbed lunch afterwards, as the kids were already fading. At least Laela was. She was so tired, poor dear, but food always helps, right? Once we were all fed, we ducked into Superstore for our few groceries and of course, cookies for the kids. We were in and out very quick, which is always good with the littles.
Home Depot was last. We bought some paint samples the other day, and loved two out of the three colors. They were all fairly light shades of grey, and I think we need one shade darker. So we stopped in to grab another sample of the next darkest shade in line and actually talked to someone fairly knowledgeable. He gave us lots of info, and showed us the products we were looking for so we’d know how to plan and how much of everything we’d need. We grabbed a few little supplies so we can at least start prepping for the paint, and then just grabbed our sample.
The kids napped the whole drive home and were too awake upon arriving home to go back down, so they were a bit touchy for the evening, but did ok. We painted the swatch almost immediately after arriving home, and it looked exactly the same as one of our other colors. Its dried darker, which is nice, but I’m not sure its quite different enough. Sigh. I wish you guys could just drop in and see the colors. We need input!
After some supper and some solid playtime, both kids were shot. Laela was crying, sooo ready to go to bed, and Dekker was furious with all things and apparently sooo not ready for bed. Good thing we know him. So getting him upstairs into bed was a bit of a challenge but he’s there now. Oh! Third night successfully in megabed, for anyone wondering. Full success 🙂
I had a great, cabin fever free day! And tomorrow, Jerilee is coming over to watch our kids so Brady and I can go on an actual DATE! As in shopping, dinner, and a movie. Woohoo!!! Going out two days in a row is one thing, but being hands-free one of those days is a pretty special treat 🙂 Can’t wait!!