Its our last full day with Cody and Jessica for who knows how long. We never know when we’ll see each other next but its always a very special time. Today was even better than yesterday, and I can only assume that a full day tomorrow would surpass today! I love them.
We decided to sleep in this morning and skip church. IĀ love resting on the day of rest! We took our time getting ready for the day, and headed to my parents house for lunch. We had a yummy lunch of spaghetti with chicken instead of beef in the sauce, which to me always feels like a treat. We were talking with my parents about our afternoon plans and mentioned that we were going to go do a bit of shopping since we didn’t get the chance on Saturday, and my mom offered to keep the kids for those couple of hours! Dekker would likely nap the whole time anyway, and Laela is still in that nice honeymoon stage of being a newborn and is super low maintenance. So we jumped at the offer and headed out for a kid-free shop. Jessica and I split off from our boys and spent a good long while in only two stores!!! But we had good success and both made a few solid purchases. We were back in Dalmeny around 6:00pm to collect the kids and head back home. We ate poutine and chicken wings for supper before Dekker went down for night. Once the house was quiet, we split off again and finally had some solid girl talk. And not shallow, “girly girl” talk. We talked about life and struggles and challenges and family and lessons we’re learning. We both have some pretty big things going on in our lives at the moment, and it was nice to be able to finally hash them out a bit in person as opposed to text messages. I’ll miss her when she’s gone.
Thanks to the mall walking, we’re all exhausted. Yet its 12:45am and we only really headed off to bed maaaybe a half hour ago. And its not even bedtime yet. We haven’t had a chance to crack Netflix š Soon.
Hopefully Laela keeps sleeping. This “having her in our room” thing isn’t getting any easier…