I think almost everyone can relate to the relief and comfort of arriving home after a time away. The food is better, the bed is better, having your own space is better than sharing, etc. I hope I’m not alone in this, because I LOVE coming home, even if I’ve had a complete blast wherever we were. This time has been a new experience for me, though. Not only am I happy to come home, but I’m THRILLED to come home to this home! I know I mentioned it yesterday, but I hadn’t appreciated my house to its full extent yet. Now I have, and I am just reminded how blessed I am to have this place for our family.
Our tub was just beckoning to me from the moment we walked into the house. Once the kids were all down, we made popcorn and had a soak. On the note of the kids going down, though, everyone slept so much better!!!!! It was such a relief. I knew they were wiped out from hardly sleeping the previous two nights, but Dekker napped on the drive until 6:00pm!! I didn’t have high expectations for deep sleeps, but the three big kids were down beautifully. Solly also went down very well, and he slept nice long chunks, only waking up once around 2:30am for a bottle. He woke up for the day around 8:30!
We have had a very relaxed morning. I got Dekker and Laela breakfast, and I drank a latte and rocked Solly while the two kids played in the living room. Rowan slept until around noon, no word of a lie. He woke up, ate, and went back down to bed. Not because I didn’t want to see him, but he was just a weepy, tearful mess that I could not seem to get under control. When I asked him if he wanted to sleep, he immediately lay his head on me and said “ya.” So he’s tucked in, Solly is sleeping up in his cradle, and the kids are having a brain break, watching some Octonauts.
Why else do I appreciate this house so much? I am very thankful for my enormous laundry machines. Not only do we produce a ton of laundry on a regular basis, but we seem to accumulate WAY more in a much shorter time span when we’re away. Aaaaand we bought an unreasonable amount of bedding at IKEA that will need to be washed before we actually use it. Thats a LOT of laundry, but these machines hold twice as much in one load as our old machines, so that helps. On that note, if anyone knows where to get really nice pillows that don’t break the bank, please let me know! We have a new blanket coming, we bought new sheets and a new duvet cover and pillowcases, and we even bought a new headboard. These tired old flat pillows need to be replaced!
That laundry can happen another day. Today is a lazy, recover, home day. I’ll adult again tomorrow.
We bought some fantastic pillows from Costco actually. Of course I can’t remember anything about them, but they are a memory foam kind of pillow. I still have the packaging if you’re interesting in more info but I’m not home now.
I’d love to know more when you do get home, if you wouldn’t mind!! I’m in the market for good pillows, and these Walmart ones just SUCK! lol