The Daily Hailey

I hate today. I know, I call myself a recovering pessimist, and I am still working on it, I promise. But I think we all have days that just suck the bag. Today was one.

I woke up to snow. Brady made the mistake of showing me a picture he had taken of the show before I had left the bed. Needless to say, it took a lot more effort to drag myself out of it. Dekker fought breakfast pretty hard, which only happens once in a while. Not a huge deal, just a little annoying more than anything. We got both kids in the car and on the road to church just after 10:00. We were aiming to be a bit early since Brady had been asked to drum for a new song and he wanted to play through it with the band a few times before the service. Unfortunately, the highway was completely ridiculous. It was super slushy and every gust of wind tried to push us into the ditch. It was not a fun ride at all. I was nervous the entire drive.

We did make it to church early, though, so we got everyone inside and Brady headed to the front of the sanctuary. Dekker didn’t do great with that, and I had to pass Laela off for the whole first chunk that Brady was up front. When Brady came back, he took Dekker and comforted him and I took Laela back. Everyone was recovered until it was the part of the service where we all kind of schmooze and greet each other for a few minutes. One of our good friends touched Dekker’s leg and said “hey bud” and he lost it. He whipped himself back and threw a container of goldfish crackers everywhere. It was horrendous and we were super embarrassed. Of course, everyone within an arms reach of a floor cracker was part of the cleanup and it was over in no time, but it was absurd. Dekker is not adjusting well to alternating his patch to the other eye, and he is completely off his game on the days that its on the left eye. Days like today. Brady sat in the back with him for most of the service, and then I traded him out when the service was coming to a close and Brady would have to go drum again. It was nice to hang out on a comfy chair and be in a quiet place with my son. He was so much more at ease back there, and we could talk a little and play and be relaxed.

When church was over, everyone went downstairs for a soup and bun lunch that was put on in an effort to raise some money to help a group of nine from our church go to Mexico to serve. We hadn’t made any plans, so we could have attended, but we decided that we would instead head straight home in case the snow starting coming down harder and the highway got worse. We survived the drive, but arrived home to no power.

Its hard to be optimistic on days like today.

I had plans for this afternoon. Comfort food – mac and cheese – for lunch, then putting Dekker down for a nap, and watching a movie with Brady and Laela, while puttering around and getting laundry done. But having no power or water changes plans. We made Dekker a peanut butter sandwich for lunch, which he actually seemed to really enjoy. Unfortunately for us, Deks had napped on the drive home from church and wasn’t especially tired. But we tried. So we put him in his room and figured he could play in there for a bit, and hopefully he’d get tired. As soon as that happened, the power clicked back on. Yay!!! We ate macaroni and watched an episode of My Name is Earl. It was already a good ways into the afternoon and I really want to watch this movie all the way through if at all possible. Not even a whole episode later, the power clicked back off. And stayed off. By this point Brady and I were both pretty frustrated. We were cold and couldn’t do anything we had hoped to do.

Lucky for us, some friends had invited us over for dinner, and THEY still had heat! So we Facebooked them and told them of our predicament, and they said to come on over. So we packed up our sleeping newborn and our nap-free toddler and headed to a nearby town with better power lines. Thanks for nothing, SaskPower.

Now, our dinner date was easily the high point of the day. We like our friends 🙂 And weirdly, they felt the same way about today as we do. It sucked. The kids were all a bit off and nothing was going perfectly right. It was nice to know we weren’t crazy. We ate hot food and caught up, and afterwards, we sat in the living room for a visit. Eventually the boys meandered downstairs to check out some finishing work that needed to be done while I visited upstairs with Nikki and the kids. It was really nice and comfortable, minus Laela barfing all over their couch. Babies are unpredictable, it would seem.

We left at a decent time, right about 7:15, which was perfect. Their girls go down right around 7:00 and Deks goes down around 8:00. Yet again, lucky for us, Dekker dozed most of the drive home, so now he is jumping on his bed, happy as a clam, NOT asleep. Not surprising. Its been an off-day for him for sure, and I’m honestly more happy to hear him be happy than I am annoyed that he’s not sleeping. He will. On the other hand, Laela has been sleeping all day long, which does not bode well for the night. I know she seems flawless every other day, but I guess she glitched today.

My favorite part of today:

Ok, my REAL favorite thing 🙂

Definitely time for a soak and a snack. Maybe a drink.