Today was such a sweet day! One of the good ones.
Cher and I made a plan to have coffee at my house in the morning before she got to her regular day stuff. She mentioned that she misses my mom, and we should invite her. My mom accepted our offer! Woot! Coffee with some of the best people! It was officially booked!
Then, in the morning, I got Laela up for school and talked with her about going to school on her own, with it not being one of Rowan’s days and with Dekker still being home “sick.” She was totally fine with it, but then suggested maybe grandma would like to bike with her. I thought it was such a cute idea, and as I suspected, my mom jumped at the idea! So that was pretty cute.
Cher came by shortly before 9:00 and my mom was back from school shortly thereafter. My mom, Cher, Brady, and I sat in the living room and caught up for an hour or so. It just felt so homey. Which makes sense, with it being my home, but my people are my home, too. I loved the morning.
Shortly after 10:00, Cher had to head home to get on some of her stuff going, and we visited a little longer with my mom. She proposed an idea to me, then, that she had special gift cards for Red Lobster and wanted to take me out! She and I love Red Lobster, and its somewhere we like to go together when we can. And obviously, its been a while, thanks to Covid. She also mentioned she had noticed I was in need of a new bra (there’s a whole other story there) and wanted to pull a mom move, and buy me a new bra. Isn’t that SO nice?! I’m learning to let people help us, and its not a secret that Brady has been off work since Covid blew up, so I accepted her beautiful offer, and we decided to make a date!
Aaaaand that date was today! Hahaha! Because, why not??
We chose to start at Red Lobster. Which turned out to be an excellent choice because we NEEDED to move after all. That. Food. 😳
Those are seafood stuffed mushrooms for starters. And then we had some kind of trio feast with three kinds of shrimp. I could’ve eaten those buttery ones for days. My goodness it was SO good.
After lunch, we ambled our way out of the restaurant and went to Circle mall. Apparently, La Senza is just over 🤷♀️ Who knew? Probably people who usually shop there. That isn’t us. So we hopped limped back into the car and went to Midtown for Victorias Secret.
We waited in a long line and finally made it into the store. We scoured the inventory before finally asking someone and finding exactly what we were looking for in the verrrrry front of the store. Because why not? Once I had bras in hand, we were informed the change rooms were closed! So that made it all a bit trickier. They assured us the return policy was still the same, and we’d have 90 days to return for a refund. So my mom said she would happily buy one, or even a few, and return what didn’t work. It turned out there was really only one that made sense to try, but it was pretty pricey on its own. We brought it to the till, and thanks to an unmarked sale, the $65 bra was down to $18. Couldn’t believe it. Thank you Lord for caring about my bras! And thank you mom for buying me one!
Aaaaand, spoiler alert, it fits beautifully!
I came home to my family, who all seemed pretty happy and content. We made them an easy breakfast for supper, and Brady and I plan to eat later after they go to bed, to spend some time together. And a soak! Mmmmm!
Tomorrow, Dekker is back to school! So he and I will both feel fresh and new!