The Daily Hailey

I was going with “the busiest week” but rolled with an Office reference instead. Anyone? Anyone?!

I know at least a couple of you will get a laugh from this. Aaaaanyway…

This week is another one of those crazy ones that is fuller than feels necessary. Before all of this craziness over the last year, I had a really clear picture of what my brain and body could handle. I would say “If I have one scheduled thing on my calendar in a day, thats enough.” And that was reasonable, in my opinion! I knew what worked well for my health. There were days where there was more on my list than just the preferred one thing, but the awareness of my ideal helped me get through that stuff 🙂 Now, having shouldered a much crazier year, my capacity went waaaaay dowwwwwn, and now, I believe its rising back up to a healthier place!

I say this because maybe some of you can manage a lot more than this! And thats fabulous! But for me, right now, its BIG!

Lucky for me, lots of this stuff is good stuff!

So, here you have it.

Monday. Brady was commissioned to make some items for one of the local restaurants, so he’s hoping to pump out as much of that order as possible today! So that leaves me doing the kids stuff, which is totally fine. And I sorted and began a MOUNTAIN of laundry today. Its been WAY too long! I don’t have a ton on the books that is specific for the daytime, but Brady and I do have a band practice with Carrie post bedtime 🙂 Have I talked about that enough? Who’s coming??

Tuesday. This is our one relaxed day. I actually had to schedule in a hangout with Cher, since we’re so busy here and she’s so busy with school, too! So the morning is a date with Cher. And then the afternoon will be regularly life things. I have a commissioned order that I will be working on as much as humanly possible throughout this week, any spare moment. So hopefully I get LOTS done Tuesday afternoon! Brady will be doing some diagnosing and hopefully some work on Cher’s car that day, as well as using his spare time to either finish up his restaurant order, practicing guitar, and/or working on some inventory he’s been putting together! Have you followed his Insta yet? @icantstand.woodworking

Wednesday. I have to remember to send Dekker his stuff for curling. Or is it skating? Goodness. I think its curling. He usually remembers, but it helps everyone if I remember! Brady has a blood appointment in the morning, and we’ll need to organize ourselves and run any other errands we may have to do that day. Oh man, I have to remember to find a birthday gift for the party Solly is going to on the weekend. I also hope very much to make Thursdays supper this day so there is just one less thing to worry about on Thursday. Because…

Thursday is gig day!! We’re opening the day with a morning band practice! Wait. No. First I have to remember to send Dekker his stuff for skating. Or curling. Ugh. Who even knows? Hopefully Dekker does. Oh and the kids have a dress up day that day! Shoot! I have it written down as Solly’s dress up day, but I wonder if its all the kids… I have no idea. Whatever. But then we’ll have a band practice for a couple of hours. This is our last ditch effort to get it all put together! With stuff having changed, we need to figure out who sits where and on what and how we’ll all be most comfortable. I’m excited!! Tom and Rae will come right around supper and we’ll all eat before we run! We’ll aim to get to Clearcut a little early to get things set up and organized. Its been a while, and our setup will be different. I say again, who’s coming?? Who wants to watch me stumble my way through my usual part plus a kick drum? 🙋🏼‍♀️

Friday. We wind down on Friday. Wind down from the music stuff, that is. But its the wind up forrrrrr… chemo. 👎 Lol! Well, first, we send Laela….. skates. I think. And send Solly in general! He goes to school some Fridays, and I’m pretty sure this is one of them. Brady has a phone appointment with his systemic oncologist in the morning, and then thank goodness the pharmacy at the cancer centre finally releases Brady’s meds to someone besides himself. So that saves a whole trip into Saskatoon! He can’t get his meds until he’s had his appointment, and they keep booking that stuff on the same day! But it works out 🙂 So he’ll receive his chemo meds Friday afternoon, and cycle ELEVEN starts Friday evening!!! I feel oddly optimistic about this cycle. It feels less daunting. I guess it pays to be busy and not dread it the same way. Guys. Cycle ELEVEN. It means we’re finally coming to the end!!!! I could cry. Somewhere on this day, Brady needs to deliver his order to the restaurant, also. So, Friday is a deadline.

Saturday ends the week with Solly at a birthday party. Beyond that, we need to stay on top of our usual things. Brady will pick up where he left off on the inventory items, and I will continue working on my commissioned tartan order. Hopefully we’re both very close to done our projects by this point!

Or, we could just sleep through this week…

Nah. Too much good 💜💜💜