I think I’ve had a few posts on here titled something along the lines of “The way a Sunday should be.” I don’t think I’ve had one recently though, as our lives have been moving nonstop and we have not had a normal Sunday in what feels like forever. When we finally have a quiet Sunday where we’re not expected to do anything or be anywhere, we honestly just would rather stay home and finally rest on our day of rest. But today was back to normal 🙂 Almost.
Before “normal Sunday” began, we headed into Saskatoon. We had some friends out of town and had agreed to let their dog out a couple of times. It was super easy, as their dog is very easy going, and they live right on the edge of the city. This morning was our last visit to their puppy. We took the back road we always take to get there, and it turned out to be a really bad idea. It rained a bit at our house last night, but there must have been some kind of torrential downpour in Saskatoon last night because the road was awful and I was losing control of the car. It was too late to turn around so Brady encouraged me to just keep going, don’t stop, and basically just gun it (thank you traction control!) until we were out. Or, turns out, until we got horribly stuck. It was awful. I was panicked. Brady was problem solving and getting out of the car to see how bad off we were. Dekker was talking in the backseat. Luckily, we slid all over the place and got stuck right at the side of the road, so Brady got out and said he was going to push. I rolled down the window so we could communicate, and I began pressing the gas while Brady pushed and we limped the car bit by bit. We were literally in a “pedal to the metal” type of situation, and finally I felt something take and I said to Brady if I got any traction I was just going to go for it. He agreed, and pushed until I kind of shrieked and picked up speed. And swerved and slid and lost control and gained control and screamed and panicked and sweated and almost ran off the road and finally made it to the pavement. I pulled over and got out of the car to wait for Brady. It was actually kind of hilarious because it felt kind of like “Well, glad thats over” and we got back in and headed over to let the dog out! We had a good laugh about it later while we drove to church, and somehow, we weren’t even late!
Church was nice, as usual. Its always nice to see everyone and spend the morning with that family. We spent the rest of the day at my parents house, eating, editing photos on the computer, and watching our 3D ultrasound video. We pulled out some boxes of my old baby stuff and pulled out a couple of things that have come back in style for our baby girl. Dekker’s naps sucked the bag so he wasn’t at his best but he did pretty great 🙂 He’s always great.
We’ve arrived home now, Dekker’s asleep, I’ve already put in our small load of diapers we’ve done every night now for three nights simply because our wet bag is too small to hold any more than about six diapers. The big ones are in the mail! But thats in, Bradys making his lunch, and we are making plans about what this week will look like.
Tomorrow, Dekker and I are going on a date with my mom to buy some material that my mom has offered to make into receiving blankets for our daughter. And maybe buy sandals. And a dress. Should be a fun date day either way!
It was nice to have “normal Sunday” back. Minus the car getting stuff. Perhaps I’ll add “wash the car” to tomorrows list.