Yesterday and today were both such good and different days. I mean, wait. Yesterday wasn’t good with Brady shooting a nail into his finger yesterday. No, that wasn’t the best. But there were some good moments. And then today has been completely different and also SO nice!
Yesterday, I decided to take the kids out for groceries after school. I have to say, WOW, shopping with the kids solo is SO MUCH EASIER when the weather is nice!! Plus, the kids have been very accepting that things are a bit different when its just me and them. Usually, the big kids ride on the end of the cart when Brady pushes it, but I have a harder time pushing that much weight, and they know it, so when I push, the big kids just hang on to the cart by the handle and “help me push,” which is cute. They were stoked to go out in the sunny afternoon, too! Well, most of them…
We did Costco, and the kids did AMAZINGLY well! The big kids offered to put the bigger boxes of things on the bottom level of the cart, no one fought or needed any intervention like that, and no one cried about the lack of cookies! (Seriously though, Costco, how much could you possibly be losing on giving cookies to kids??) An employee approached us while we were at the till and was gushing over our kids. She commented, as many do, that I was a busy mom. I said I absolutely was, but that they made it easy, and they were just SUCH good kids. Thats so often how the conversation goes, and I’m totally happy with that, but she took it a leg up and very warmly said to me “That says a lot about their parents, you know?” It was just above and beyond what she needed to say, and was very humbling in the moment. I thanked her, and we headed out to the van. I unloaded everything into the back and we went to meet Brady nearby. From there we went and picked up a baby item that I’ll tell you about on Monday! I’m SO excited for it!
We grabbed a quick supper and hit another couple of stores, just to run in for a thing or two, and then came home. When we got home, I realized it was pretty much RIGHT at bedtime, and Dekker hadn’t done any homework yet! The curse of the early bedtime :/ So I suggested a different option and the kids jumped at it!
Brady and I began unloading groceries, and Dekker read his book for the day to his siblings, asking occasionally for help with certain words. I’m AMAZED at how well he reads! I found them all like this one their own, too!
Today was entirely different. I stayed in most of the day, and had a beautiful, low key day with my mom and the kids. It feels like FOREVER since I’ve seen her, though its maybe only been two weeks? But thats LONG! We sipped our hot drinks and visited about all that we had missed. There was so much ground to cover! We also talked a bit about the baby party and even came up with a few more ideas! We spent the whole morning together and a bit of the afternoon before she had to actually be somewhere else, and I had to go get Dekker.
Brady is home at a good time today (YAY!) and the kids are pretty low key. Today is warm enough, but its windy and grey, which somehow makes it feel more quiet and relaxed.
Home date night tonight for Brady and I! Tomorrow I leave on my annual road trip with Jerilee, and Brady has the kids to himself for the weekend. Hopefully they’re as peachy for him as they were in Costco yesterday!