No, I don’t claim that myself, nor the members of my family, are “normal.” What I mean is that I think we’re making that effort to feel more put together and less scattered and bedraggled.
We went to the city today for an appointment and a few errands. And it felt like it used to! Not as scary as taking two kids to Saskatoon felt for me a week or two ago. We got to the city about 30 minutes before my appointment so we drove to Extra Foods and I ducked in to grab a couple of things, including KCups. When we first bought our Keurig, we bought like ten different flavoured coffees, teas, and hot chocolate to figure out what we liked. At this point, we have a couple randoms left and a ton of Kirkland Breakfast Blend (which is delicious, by the way) and thats it. On Halloween, we were given a whole box of lemon zinger tea and it reminded me how much I enjoyed having tea from my Keurig. So I snagged a box of my fave – Earl Grey, and also a box of the Starbucks medium blend decaf. Always good to have a decaf option, and its actually a really nice blend. I was in and out of there very quickly and made it to my appointment just a minute or two early.
WAXING!!! It has been exactly 50 days since my last wax. Just over seven weeks. I like to go every four. So not that you all needed to know, but I needed my legs waxed in a big bad way. I wasn’t feeling brave enough to let anyone reef on my legs really yet, but it was getting too gross and I am plenty recovered, so I went for it. It was luxurious. I always feel like I’m being pampered as they tear my hair off of my body. Which is strange. I have always had a zero pain threshold and still do, yet waxing is really my form of beauty treatment 🙂 Love it. Plus, I saw a new girl there who was very meticulous and checked her work very thoroughly so as not to leave one hair behind. I really appreciate that. There is something to be said for newbies.
I broke down and shopped for Laela. If you’ve missed the memo and want to be invited, there is a “sprinkle” celebrating Laela next weekend. While I know there are people who will want to bring gifts, I couldn’t resist buying her a couple things. Old Navy had a deal on today taking 50% off dresses, including baby dresses. Since we had no idea how big she would be, we have lots of three month stuff but all her cute sweaters and dresses are 3-6 months, which she doesn’t fit yet. So we grabbed two dresses for 50% off that are 0-3 months so she would have something to wear for church and also to her sprinkle 🙂 Yay for long sleeved dresses! I agreed not to cross the street to Carter’s/OshKosh, as I’ve seen some adorable little dress/cardi combos there as well. She got enough today.
We realized the other day that Bradys one good pair of jeans has a hole in the knee. Bradys jeans last FOREVER. I think his current pair he wore to the hospital when we were having Dekker, so…yup. It was time. We hit up Circle Mall to check Bluenotes, who was having a decent sale too. We hauled our two kidlets in our new-to-us beautiful BETTER double stroller into the store that I’m thinking is maybe closing?? It was fairly bare, but they still have what we needed! He decided on these beautiful slimmer fit jeans, and we should have left. Should have. I saw jeggings. I’ve been intrigued by them for a while but was too pregnant to buy any. I figured it was worth it to try them on and maybe ask for some for Christmas. I think we can all see where this is going. I bought a pair. Eggplant ones. They’re actually super pretty. I want a pair in every color. Except the weird green. So Brady and I both got some new pants that we feel way better in!
I feel like I should add in here that Dekker isn’t wildly left out of the clothes shopping. We bought him a great haul of new shirts and sweaters about a month ago when I had some free Old Navy money. So he’s all decked out for Fall too.
We drove home, fed ourselves grilled cheese sandwiches (yup, we were tired), and watched Glee until Dekker’s bedtime. We even put in a load of laundry. I haven’t been caught up on laundry in a while, and while I actually really enjoy laundry, it is almost comical how life just fills when one has two kids! Even a lazy, at-home day fills with emotional toddlers or gassy babies. As a kid, our house wasn’t spotless. We didn’t go out tons, or get everything done on time. Because cuddling and talking and playing toys was just more important. I LOVE that, and I plan to do the same with my family. For those reasons, laundry gets left, dishes pile up, and the floor gets fuzzy. Whatevs. We’ll get there eventually. But the kids are running out of clothes. So their laundry happens today and hopefully at least a chunk of ours will get done on Monday. But who knows what tomorrow holds anyway? Tomorrow can worry about itself.
I’m so ready to soak my shiny new legs in the tub! And then sleep. Big day. Great day.
