We did SO much better last night!! Thank you to those who prayed for a smoother time. It truly was so much more restful, and we felt way better equipped for the day.
I ran for bakery breakfast items on my own this morning, and the kids were thrilled to learn that they had cherry danishes today!! They love danishes no matter what, but the red ones are always the favourites.
After breakfast, we were lucky enough to have my mom come visit!! <3 I’m so thankful she was willing to drive out and be with us! She came with milk (Why are there no 4L jugs here??) and a little treat of some ginger beef for Brady and I. YUM! We loaded everyone up almost right away and went to the playground. The kids were SO looking forward to it, and they had a blast.
I admit, I was feeling pretty nervous about having them all out there, not all in my view all the time, but we had a good pep talk before we went, and everyone remembered the rules, and remembered why they were important. They kept an eye on each other, and of course, so did we. They did awesome. I’m SO proud of my children.
It was really good to see mom <3 Wavy thought so, too. Its good to get those two together.
The playground was fun, but everyone was getting fatigued and dehydrated, so it was soon time to head back for lunch. We ate pizza rolls and cold veggies and drank a ton of water. And then it was nap time!
My mom brought us some special treats – some new books for the kids to read, and some candies! It was a yummy, peaceful nap time.
We eventually settled at the table and coloured together. Brady played quiet guitar. It was pretty awesome. Wavy woke up first and joined the fray of adults and big kids, but those middle boys stayed cashed out for longer than we had bargained for. We finally had to wake them :/ It was too bad, but it was necessary. Rowan was ok, but Solly was down for the count. He was sweaty and draggy and over it the moment he was up. So we pretty quickly made the judgement call to have an early supper.
Mom took us out for supper at our favourite little restaurant in town.
We noticed the heat is doing beautiful things for Waverly’s hair!! Eek!
We ate fries, fish, burgers, pizza, grilled cheese, and our body weight in fries. Our plan had been ice cream for dessert, but we decided to delay that a little and go find another place to play. We played and chatted until the breakdown began again, then we took a long way back to the restaurant for ice cream!
Flattering for everyone, of course. They LOVED their dessert. Its actually one of my favourite things because at Waskesiu, when everyone gets a different kind, everyone shares unceasingly with one another, almost pushing their flavour against the others. No holding back, everyone tries everyone’s ice cream. Today, we passed around mango, black cherry, kit kat, rolo, peanut butter cup, and cotton candy. It was awesome 🙂 And then, because we’re us, we went to run some of that sugar off at our favourite little chunk of the beach. We threw rocks, and Dekker and Laela successfully skipped stones. It was really relaxing. SO many pretty rocks, too. I’m thinking I might make a post solely about the rocks we found here. Not that we’re bringing any home, of course, because *cough* National park *cough.*
We’re back now, and the kids are all exhausted and tucked away 🙂 Time for cards and a radler to close the day!