The Daily Hailey

I’ve been spending the days at home with my kids and my mom. Its been so wonderful having the help and the love and all the support. Meals, groceries, and baby gifts have been added bonuses. However, today our friend Willa came out for the day to give my mom some extra time to get the house ready for my brother and sister in law, who are visiting this weekend.

We had SUCH a nice day, if I can speak for the group. She brought us meals for basically the entire day, did all the dishes, fed Laela most of her bottles, played toys in the basement with Dekker while I sat and piddled away on my phone, and she even took on both my kids first thing in the morning when Dekker had his first poo-smearing experience. Yup. That happened. I took pictures but I’m pretty sure I’d lose readers if I posted them. It was such a relaxing day of visiting and getting a couple of things done.

When we were waiting (and waiting, and waiting) for Laela to arrive, I stress-tidied, and prepared every possible thing I could think of. So there really aren’t tons of jobs around my house waiting to be done. I’m sure that once all the help wears off, I’ll find myself up to my elbows in dust, mould, and broken appliances, but at the moment I feel like my home is under control. Yay!

Brady arrived home around 5:45pm with the news that he had worked his BUTT off, and has tomorrow off!!! I’m so looking forward to tomorrow. Croissants and coffee in bed 🙂 I miss that. Feels like its been forever! And then possibly a trip into Saskatoon for a couple of things. Luckily I still make lists.

Willa left us a delicious supper of honey garlic chicken, veggies, and quinoa. Everyone loved it, Dekker included, which is saying something!!! He’s not a picky eater really, but new food is sometimes a toss-up. But when its yummy, its yummy!

At the end of the day, we got Dekker in the tub and finally washed the poop out of his hair. Once in the bath, he was thrilled to play and splash. Brady had to drag him crying out of the then-freezing bath when it was bedtime. Who would have ever seen that coming?! He eventually came into our room and jumped on the bed for a while, and he is now in bed. Instead of blogging earlier, I chatted on the phone with my sister for a couple hours. Felt a bit like it was in person, which I like. In the span of time that I was on the phone, Laela and Brady took a nap (haha) and now Laela bean has been fed and is fast asleep, and we are running a tub and getting snacks together. First attempt at having a soak together since baby girl was born!!!

I am so looking forward to getting out of the house tomorrow! Not for long, but for a couple of errands anyway. And fresh air.