The Daily Hailey

Today was a bit of a wild one. Not in a bad way, but in the way where I feel like I’ve been running. Though I haven’t. But my brain has been.

I can’t even tell you how many calls I fielded. Well. I probably could tell you, but I don’t want to look. When I’d be on the phone, I’d miss a different call, or come back to a handful of messages that all needed replying to. NOT saying anything regarding my people I love to text and call!! But like, appointment stuff. Health care stuff. Heavier things that our loved ones sending messages 💜 Nothing was bad, but my brain is so tired 😅

My kids are all out in various locations with different friends, except the little ones who are still napping, so I can definitely keep my feet up a little longer. Not too terribly long, but longER, anyway. I have to stop crocheting, though, and do something more productive.

Should I…

A. Make a document to help organize our finances?

or

B. Unpack the Skylight calendar I got for half price on Marketplace and win the war against intimidation?

🤷‍♀️

I started this new thing and I think every parent out there should try it. It greatly assists with being asked a million questions every day, as well as adds some humour, because who doesn’t need more of that? It goes like this.

Kid: Mom?
Me: Nope.
Kid:….. aw…
Me: 😏

Thats our version, anyway. Make it your own.

You’re welcome.

We had the immense pleasure of spending the day today with our dear Dahlsjos 💜 How we made it through our time without taking pictures!!! is beyond me!! 😩 Maybe because we just enjoyed our time together rather than trying to save it on our phones. It was really peaceful and refreshing to be among some of our more favorite people.

We chatted. Ate simple food. The kids played and caught up on lost time. Shared out dramas and traumas, and some good tight hugs. We called it right at 7pm so they could make their trek home, and I could get our sweet foster bestie home before bedtime.

It is a HUGE gift to know we can have our Dahlsjos over and still be exactly ourselves. With no pressure on anyone or anything to be perfect or any kind of way. We just were together, and that was enough.

We love you guys. We have missed you so dearly this summer. Thank you for making this drive. We hope to see you all again soon 💜

I’m not sure there’s been a week recently that I have been so ready to see go. It wasn’t a bad week, per se, but it was such a loaded week. I was SO relieved when the kids were off to school and I could just take some deep breaths. No appointments today!

Not only was today a bit of a freer day, but the kids were invited to go swim at a friends place after they got home!

Not only were my five occupied after school, but I had the pleasure of receiving our little foster bestie halfway through the afternoon! That is ALWAYS a win!

Not only that, but Brady woke up in time for supper. We had bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches, and fresh oranges. Love some breakfast for supper over here.

And not only do I have SO much to be grateful for in our day, but we also are grateful to not need home care tomorrow! No burn on them, but its lovely to not lay in wait for an appointment. In fact, we will see some very dear friends tomorrow, which is its own gift. I’m already grateful that they’re coming, and I will be grateful again once they’re here, and yet again after.

Not being facetious either. I know our things are heavy, but Gods mercy never fails, and we feel it over and over.

This week has felt like a heavy one. Forms. Paperwork. Lots of digging and searching and shuffling and finding myself at impasse after impasse. It has not been my favorite week. I feel quite mentally wiped out, but I’m hoping the weekend will lift that a little bit, and that is not too far off.

Today, I am grateful for some of the smaller things. Egg salad on huge kaiser buns. I got to wash my hair this week. The kids didn’t bicker until supper. Cher made my bed and cleaned my bathroom. Munchie Mix is on the mend from our recently procured virus. I have space to keep a puzzle going again.

God is good, ALL the time. Even when the days are heavy.

Yesterday, I rearranged the whole evening so I could be at my computer when registration opened for Youth Edge, a weekend retreat that high school aged kids can attend at Millar College of the Bible. Dekker was itching to go, and he had a friend from camp who was really welcoming and really wanted him to come. Registration felt super daunting, because I was warned it tended to fill within half an hour of it opening.

But we did it! 🥳 I sat at the table while everyone ate supper, and hit refresh until registration officially opened. I had Dekker’s health number and my credit card in hand, and I was all geared up. And THANK GOODNESS we got him in!! He was so amped!

And while I love to tease him in these moments, I also TOTALLY get his excitement because I lived for youth retreats at his age! And now he is, too. And I love that 💜

Still a bit of a wait for it to come, but Dekker is relieved and also already buzzing about getting to go!!

Any other locals heading to Youth Edge this year?

While it didn’t reach quite this point…

I’m happy to say the blog is finally back up and running!

Here are a few cute things since I stopped being able to post photos. Welcome to a pretty cute catch up post!

First of all, we enjoyed a walk to the park before bedtime a few days ago. It was a VERY cute scene 💜

We were short Dekker, but it was still nice. Until it wasn’t. That sleeve whipping game I have no compassion for. But at least everyone recovered with a flappy arm hug.

Don’t worry about Wavy. She can get a good cuddle on with her brothers.

Our lovely neighbour gifted the girls one of her hair dryers. Of course, it is bright pink and already been put to GOOD use!!!

Girl time is gold now 🙌

Our kids are babysitting one of our friends’ gardens, and we get to reap all the benefits! 😋 Cannot complain!!!

Wave had a sick day today, and she did a lot of sitting still and doodling on a boogie board. I really liked that this one had a BBQ, lol!

Today, Cher came for the day, and her mom lovingly sent along some enormous fresh garden tomatoes! Thus, a big delicious round of toasted tomato sandwiches was born!! With cottage cheese on top, because it amps up something incredible a few extra points!

Goodness I’m SO relieved to have this blog back! Of ALL times, now is NOT the time to just peace out and quit. We have so much to celebrate as we go through some otherwise hard things, and I would hate to have to abandon ship now.

Now forgive me while I end this abruptly so I can panic and try to get Dekker registered for Youth Edge 😅😩

Its a rough season of life over here. Let’s talk about another season we’re in.

Fly season.

😒🪰

They are EVERYWHERE! Most despicably, they’re in my house.

All over my house.

On every surface.

Flying slowly.

In stacks of two. Getting all buzzy. 😒 You get it.

None of you psychos are welcome in my house in the first place, much less to reproduce here! Your offspring is unwelcome here.

Just you wait. When outside flies are done, I’m going to kill you all. No mercy. Stop being on my sticky babies or my island. Leave my puzzle alone. Just get out.

*sigh*

Flies.

These days, 9pm feels late. I definitely like to be in bed by then in general, but specifically lately, I am SO tired by this time. So this will be short.

Dekker stole Spotify twice from me today. Twice. Once when I tried to play music in the house, and once when I was driving our little one back home in the city. I finally texted Dekker and just said “Give it baaaaack!” And he did. And then oddly emailed me about it later, saying I could use the music. 🤔 Weird.

My mom bought a stack of junior bacon cheeseburgers from Wendys for lunch today. It. Was. AWESOME. No cheese for the dairy free one, of course, but still yummy! It was such a yummy indulgent lunch. Thank you, mom!

I got a soak today during nap time. I shaved my legs and everything. New woman alert.

We ate apple crisp that Rae gifted us for supper. Not dessert. Supper. Also awesome.

Two friends came over post kid bedtime and helped with some of Brady’s care. It was a huge gift to us. And the promise for more assistance as time goes on.

We have so much to be grateful for. Being in bed at 9pm is another one of those things 💜 Thank you, Lord.

I really don’t like this whole “no space” thing. I really want to work it out as soon as possible. The stakes feel high over here lately and of ALL times, this is NOT the time to try to rebuild a whole new blog. That. Would be. Stupid.

What I can tell you is that we are consistently blessed. Over and over.

Someone brought muffins to our door yesterday. Therefore, todays breakfast was served!

I finished off a couple of cardigans I’ve been picking at this last week!

Even when a few things went greatly south this morning, and seemed unsolvable, God covered us undeniably later on in the day!

We get to visit with our dear foster babe once again. I will never tire of our visits! Sleepover tonight!

We ate delicious fresh corn on the cob, c/o a lovely family from our church who consistently shows up for us!

We went to the park in the evening. It was crispy and lovely and we made really nice memories! The pictures of Brady and the uninternetified babies are 😘👌 perfect!! But whether I had room on here or not, I couldn’t post them, so 🤷‍♀️

The rainbow after the rain didn’t hurt either.

It really was a beautiful day. We could focus on the morning debacle that dragged us HARD throughout the entire day, but we have just so very much to be thankful for 💜 All glory to YOU, oh Lord!! For YOU have done and continue to do GREAT things!!