We had a relaxed day planned. Brady had a chiro appointment in the mid morning, and we had decided to all go in together, and then hit up Value Village afterwards for a few things. I sorted through the kids clothes a couple of days ago finally and was able to see what they actually need and don’t need. So I had a few things in mind that we could shop for. We walked out spending about $60, and for that, we bought Dekker a pair of jeans and two shirts, Laela some rubber boots, three shirts, and a dress, the new baby a jean jacket for summer time, Brady about five work shirts, and a purse for myself. I’d call it a very successful haul.
As we made our non-plan for the day, a number of other places crossed our minds that we needed to hit up, but they completely fell out of our minds until later that day. We had eaten lunch and put Rowan down for a nap, and while we were watching a movie this afternoon, I started remembering all of the places we had forgotten to go! It was then that we decided I’d go run another series of errands on my own.
It was SO nice to get out and about a bit by myself!! I went to so many places, got through them efficiently, and only bought the things I was intending to buy. I listened to music I loved and had windows open, despite the cold wind. I just felt good being out. Its a hard feeling to explain. I LOVE shopping with my kids, truly, but it was refreshing to just run into place after place for one thing, and not spent 70% of the outing putting people in and out of car seats. The ONE place that I bought one or two things that weren’t necessities was at Dollarama. We kept a few things packed that we use regularly in the kitchen, so instead of digging like crazy through all of our boxes looking for small things, I just snagged a few at Dollarama. An apple slicer, and some cutting boards, to be exact. As I was heading to the line, I thought of one last idea that I’d been tossing around for a while, and I decided to go get the kids their own lip chapsticks. They had some cute girly ones with princesses but the boys one was something that Dekker would know nothing about, so I opted for just regular Blistex. Mint for Dekker and cherry for Laela. Or if you were to ask them, green for Dekker and pink for Laela. Our kids LOVE putting on “lip fuff” and sometimes they accidentally massacre ours, or sometimes we don’t like them to share if we (or they) are sick. So I “splurged” and got them each their own.
I felt really good coming home to my happy family. The kids had eaten MASSIVE amounts over supper, which is awesome, and Brady had been on the phone a couple of times with our mortgage lady, and had really positive news to share from their conversations, so that was another pick me up for sure. The kids were even more pumped about their chapsticks than I had expected, and everyone seemed really upbeat. They were a very pleasant group to come home to.
Now the kids are tucked in, and Brady and I are cuddling in for a relaxed evening of quiet. Tomorrow will be a big laundry day, and hopefully we’ll get a few more things organized and unpacked around here. But until then, there will be coffee and Netflix.