Visits with my siblings always feel so short 🙁 Everyone is hauling out tomorrow morning. However, we made the best of our day together. The kids played hard, together and separate, since they run completely opposite schedules. But they got along great 🙂 The rest of us, as usual, ate and talked and ate some more. It seems like we don’t require a lot of activity when we’re together. Its nice to just be in the same room. At one point, everyone wanted to go for a walk, but both my kids were sleeping, so mom and I stayed back and did some potato and carrot peeling for supper. We celebrated Stefans birthday over a supper of golden chicken, mashed potatoes, cooked carrots, and salad. We had a super delicious pumpkin cake with cream cheese icing for dessert, and the kids were bouncing off the walls after that! It was fun and busy and eart warming. It was sad to leave this evening, but we’ll all see each other over Christmas again. I love my family.
I’ve missed sharing a couple of things with you guys over the last few days, so I’m randomly adding them now. One thing I’m kind of excited about is…I bought my domain name! See the page name you’re on? No more “wordpress.com”!!! I know, I’m not some business or some successful money-making blog, but I like how it looks 🙂 I feel like 500 posts makes me a big enough deal to have a real website, haha! So there you have it. With the domain name came an email too, so I can now be reached (for whatever reason) at hailey@thedailyhailey.com. Go me!
Secondly, I was talking to my sisters, Caity and Grace, about how we all feel in a bit of a fashion funk. We were discussing whether or not it was worth it to put some solid money aside and go buy a wardrobe, or at least a few solid pieces. I found it weirdly motivating, and got really excited about it. As a shower gift, Grace had given me some money to buy some great new jeans, which is SUPER exciting for me! Besides that, I saved about $50 of birthday money from this summer, so those two cheques combined would already give me a great start! So I went on a rampage last night and this evening, and purged my closet. It was a fairly aggressive purge, if you will. Everything I own is sooo boring, but its hard to throw stuff out when it still fits. I hemmed and hawed over my plain, solid colored long sleeved shirts, and was almost relieved to find that the armpits on every single shirt were absolutely disgusting. Clean, but threadbare and stained. I was so relieved to throw them away, and that just amped my motivation! I easily got rid of over half of my clothing! However, now I have nothing to wear… I guess I’d better go shopping soon!
The last thing I’ll babble on about is Christmas. We have our first Christmas celebration this coming weekend with some friends. My best friend, Jessica, and her husband Cody are spending next weekend with us, and since we never seem to get together around Christmas, we celebrate and exchange gifts whenever we get to see each other! I’m excited to at least try to Christmasify my house. I’ll have to add some decorations to my shopping list.
The end. I’m tired, and we were home so late last night that I didn’t get my soak in the tub. So I’m thinking it’ll just have to be twice as long tonight. Better get on that. Sleep well, friends.