The Daily Hailey

So I have a few fun updates for you guys from yesterday evening and this morning. At least one of them is fun.

It has been suggested to me by a few friends recently to start waking up early whether Dekker does or not. This goes completely against my grain but as I’ve been seriously considering it, I think it would eventually be good for my sanity and great for Bradys! We would both feel better with more sleep, for sure. So this morning I have a friend going in for a c-section, and I promised to pray for her. So I figured it was a good day to wake up to an alarm and be a bit more disciplined than I’ve been in the past, on this issue anyway. I set my alarm for 7:50, as she was scheduled to be wheeled into surgery at 8:00. In all honesty, I feel like death. But I didn’t fall back to sleep. I prayed for a few minutes, and then only lay there for a couple more minutes before I got up. Not “got up” as in got ready for the day and began accomplishing things. I mean “got up” as in I turned on the bedroom light, grabbed the laptop, and other things similar to that. Soon I will surface even further into the kitchen for the coffee waiting for me in the kitchen. Thank you, Brady! When I was originally thinking about waking myself up earlier, I thought maybe I’d only start the process in the new year, since Christmas will sort of throw it all off again, as holidays and gatherings tend to do. But I’m not sure! Maybe I should just go with it now? I don’t know. Waking up (and staying awake) when its dark out feels sooo wrong! Not quite sure which direction to take.

A fun update? I joined the iPhone community! Brady too! No, I’m not blogging from my phone. That is one thing that I’m pretty sure will likely remain a laptop activity. But I’m really pumped about this phone. I know we’re a little behind the times over here, but as everyone with an iPhone knows, its fairly pricey to join the community. That plus we were still on contracts. I went to ask what our buy out fees would be, and mine was only $45 while Bradys was waived because he had less than six months remaining. So we jumped at getting them. We both got white, and we both got the Apple Care or whatever the insurance is called. I don’t usually jump at the insurance, because I’m usually pretty careful with my stuff. However, Brady for sure needed it. I’ve seen what his phone looks like after a day of work, and having some insurance is good. I would likely never do anything bad to my phone, but Dekker might. And soon, the things I put towards the back of the couch just out of his reach will be within his reach, and then we’re all in trouble. So if my phone ends up in the toilet, I like the added security. I didn’t like the $100 per phone that it cost though. Gross, I know. But that aside, we both have beautiful new phones. My favorite part of the experience though, was Dekker, as usual. Brady carried him the entire time. No, I’m not a jerk. I tried to trade him off! But since Dekker doesn’t see his daddy all day, he is very popular in the evenings. Anyway, Dekker had a couple toys in his hands and was fine for a while, but started to get fidgety, as most kids would do. He desperately wanted one of the iPhones and we were not about ready to pass him one just yet! Then one of the staff reached into a drawer and passed him a bright blue phone. She assured me it was an old floor model phone, like one of the fake ones with the plastic picture that doesn’t work, so he could drop it to his hearts content. I passed it to him, but he just eyed it suspiciously. He had a toy in eat hand and didn’t seem quite convinced enough to try  new one. So I put it town on the counter in front of him. He leaned over and started are it very closely before laying his screwdriver beside it and picking up the new toy. And he loved it! So we all left the mall with new phones yesterday, Brady and I with iPhones, and Dekker with a Nokia of some kind. Total Success.

Now if anyone wants to teach me how to use my phone, it would be greatly appreciated.