The Daily Hailey

I woke up at 6 am to Dekker. Of all people, my son was up at 6:00! I know I’m repeating myself but for the past week-ish, the earliest he has woken up has been about 10:00. Either way, this morning was different. Kind of. He woke up and gave a few good wails, and was back to sleep. Juuust enough to wake me up completely. At first I was a little irritated. I’ve had trouble falling asleep recently so we’ve been getting to bed later, and waking up at 6:00 just doesn’t fit into my schedule. Plus, our house didn’t cool off as nice as it did the night before and I woke up with sweat on my face. Not my favorite. However, I got to wake up with Brady. He got up and did his own thing to get ready for the day, but came and had breakfast with me in bed. We almost never get our mornings together, except on the weekend. It was special and quiet and sleepy. I loved it.

Now I’m sipping my ginormous coffee (remember the coffee cups from Luke’s Diner in Gilmore Girls? Yup.) and wondering what today will bring. Our house is so hot, but outside is hotter, and unlike many young families I’m in touch with, I don’t live a hop, skip, and a jump from a spray park. While lots of ladies are getting their kids out in the sun, covering them in cool water, and playing hard, we’re finding ourselves more cooped up than anything. Being a lover of summer, its strange to have these feelings towards the heat. I looove the sun! But its exhausting to be so warm for so long! Maybe Dekker and I will take a nice cool bath together if it just gets too unbearable in here!

Either way, I’ll probably spend a decent chunk of today playing with Dekker in the basement where its a bit cooler. Remember a while ago, I posted about planning to build Dekker’s birthday present but I didn’t want to bring it up in case it flopped? Ok, you still can’t know what it is, but it definitely didn’t flop!!! It looks great actually, so that being said, maybe I’ll add another coat of paint to it today, since my “creative space” (also known as a piece of plywood on the floor) is set up downstairs. At least that way we’ll accomplish something! Actually, I plan to accomplish…three things. Yup, I can come up with three.

1. Paint Dekker’s birthday present

2. Plan a supper that doesn’t require a stove

3. Wash jeans (Not just do laundry, but I probably have 15 pairs of old jeans lying around and I’m thinking I should make them into a denim outside blanket or something. Either that or get rid of them. Today is decision day!)

I hope others have as chill (sick joke) of a day planned as I do!