The Daily Hailey

Besides the last two hours, my day was nice and fairly uneventful. A beautiful gift was left on my doorstep, courtesy of Fine Silver Designs, a company run by a friend of mine, so that was a lovely surprise and a good “event” I suppose. Also today, Dekker tolerated his drops beautifully!!! First thing in the morning, he was not impressed. Second drops were our first ever experience being free of tears!! He simply grabbed a book and waited for me to finish putting them in. I have made a point since we began doing drops to warm them up a bit before putting them in, but these last few days, that dropper lives in my bra, and I think it really helps. The third set of drops was fine too, and he went off to bed.

While both kids napped, Brady and I finally got to a task that has been on my list for months – taking inventory of our freezer. It was insane, guys. Pages and pages were filled with lists of items of food we knew about, and those we didn’t. We are ridiculously blessed. Everyone should probably come over for supper and eat some of our food.

When it was around 6:00pm, Brady popped a casserole in the oven and I went to get Dekker up from his nap. He was such a sweetheart, all soft and cuddly in his jammies. When I lay him down on his change table, I gave him a book and started to do his drops. Again, no fight. Also, no drops. The dropper was completely empty. I’m not sure what I expected. The bottle to beep when it was empty? How can anyone tell when a dropper is empty?! Dekker say patiently while I shook the thing and squeezed air in his eyes, madly trying to get drops out. I gave up and grabbed the cream instead. The cream is fine, but it leaves his vision blurry, so putting it in right before meal time isn’t ideal. Plus, it wasn’t all warm, and its a lot stringier cold than when its warm. So after Dekker had allowed me to pry his eye open and fuss with the drops for so long, he lay still and let me mess with the cream too, which took longer and I think felt worse. He amazes me.

Being out of drops is not ideal either, because we still have three days of drops. I called Superstore immediately and asked them to please get our refill ready, and I was out the door shortly after. It was maybe around 6:30, and Superstore closed at 8:00. So I ate a few bites of the delicious supper Brady made us, and bolted. I made it there in good time and got the prescription within minutes. I texted Brady to see if we needed anything else, and I browsed the makeup while I waited for him to respond. I have a particular product I want, but its fairly pricey, so I went to see if it was on sale. It wasn’t. However, there was a tester. Being that its not something totally yucky to use after someone else may have used it, I put a bit of it on my finger to use. What kind of makeup section has NO mirrors?! Silly, right? I smudged it on my face and left.

As I left through the exit doors, I passed a man sitting on a chair. I know some of you may view me as judgemental or stereotypical, but he looked rough. Ratty clothes, unkempt, etc. Once I was past him, I heard him say “How are you tonight?” Maybe it was rude, I don’t know, but I didn’t respond. I was already past, and if I turned around and went back, I didn’t want to strike up a conversation. I knew I could make it home to see my kids before bedtime, and I didn’t want to jeopardize that. So I continued on. Maybe five seconds later I looked behind me and he was a few short steps behind me. I picked up my speed, and he matched my pace. A lot was rushing through my head in that moment. Get in your car and lock your doors immediately. Don’t doddle. Don’t appear nervous. But I was nervous. I figured, even if I locked my car the second I got in, I wanted a head start. So I ran. I booted it all the way to my car, got in, locked up, and drove out. I saw him come out into the parkade and start walking towards a woman putting groceries into her car. He got between her and her cart and said something to her. She jumped, laughed, pushed him playfully, and they chatted as I drove off. So maybe I totally overreacted! But I was pretty shaken up actually. And mildly annoyed that I didn’t have a chance to look at the makeup I had blindly thrown on moments before.

On my way out of the city, I grabbed some coffee for Brady and I for tomorrow. I, Hailey, am going to wake up early tomorrow morning, on purpose, to watch hockey with Brady. I have never willingly watched sports on tv, much less at 6am. If I’m going to do it, there better be Tims involved. Good wife?

It was nice to see the kidlets before they hit the hay, but now they are down and we can relax for a couple of hours. A bubble bath, a snack, and some Modern Family are on the list tonight.