My Sunday

After a movie night complete with treats and snuggles, I had a fantastic sleep last night I woke up to the phone ringing; I expected it, it was going to be my Dad. So I heard it ring, I got out of bed and started to get ready, I listened to Ty talk to Dad as I got ready. After quickly having breakfast and brushing my teeth I hoped into the car and headed off to meet Dad so we could go shopping.

We headed off to Wal-Mart and got Dad a pair of running shoes and lighter-then-winter-socks that he could wear in Mexico. My Dad has never been on a plane, let alone to Mexico, and I am so excited that he is getting excited for this trip. After that we headed to Tim's for coffee and a donut, and had a great chat on the way back to the farm. This is our typical almost-weekly routine; he calls me and we go either grocery shopping, or he needs my help picking up something, and then he buys me coffee and we have chat to catch up on life. As we chat I continue to realize he is the type of parent I hope to someday be; a parent that has raised me - without once raising his voice to me; a parent that has taught me life lesson, through living his own life; a parent that has given me everything, when he thought he had nothing to give; a parent that made me successful without pushing me to be anything more then myself; a parent that accepted my mistakes, and loved me when I didn't love myself; a parent that has never let me down, that has picked me up, and that I have never doubted his love. I want to be that to my children, to Ty and my children.

Then I get home to my new husband, who is outside playing with our little puppy. We came inside and I get the puppy (Odus) dressed in his jacket and booties so I can take him for a short walk. As we walk through Town people always point and smile at Odus in his jacket and booties, I laugh because he loves the attention as he trots along with such happiness. We stroll back home, Ty makes us some Kraft Dinner for lunch and chat and make our grocery list for the week. As I head out to grocery shop, Ty heads upstairs to work on the bedrooms, we make such a great team. As I walk up and down the aisles at the grocery store, I realize how much I enjoy my life, how I love the simple, normal times in my life as much as I enjoy the crazy parts. I realize how much I enjoy doing those "traditional wife" tasks for Ty, because it makes me happy to make him happy, but that doesn't interfere with me making myself happy (make sense?). I arrive home and unpack my groceries as I listen to Ty work away upstairs, I take out a ton of veggies and make fritatta's for us for breakfast for the week and get the dishes done, then sit down and begin to write this entry.

This is my normal Sunday - I typically get house work done and get a few things off my "to-do" list - but what I love about Sunday's is that those things I do, don't feel like tasks or chores or "must-do's".

Ahhhh, Sunday! I think I will head upstairs and get a ceiling painted this afternoon and then have breakfast sandwiches for dinner (one of my favorite things - breakfast for dinner!).

Hope everyone is enjoying Sunday as much as me!

S.

New Blog ... More Blogging

Good Morning World!

So, after a friend of mine shared her blog with me, it has inspired me to come back and write on my blog. I have realized that there doesn't have to be a funny moment or a big reno or anything more then my wonderful everyday life to inspire me to write! So, this morning I will write simply about my last 24 hours!

Yesterday morning I slept in and didn't make it to bootcamp, I woke up and went to work for the morning. As I sat at work, I realized how lucky I am to have the job I do, to work with the people I do - as we sat and caught up on each others life and I had a nice warm cup of hot chocolate. Wonderful. After spending 4 hours at work and meeting with a few students I headed out to meet my husband and in-laws for lunch. As I arrived home I realized how wonderful it is, to not only have a great family myself, but to now have added Ty's family. As I walked in the door there were hugs all around! We took a few minutes to catch up and then headed out to lunch. We ended up together for 2 hours of chatting and I realized how fortunate I am to have such a great relationship with my new in-laws, one where we have our own relationship outside of them simply only being Ty's parents.

After lunch we came home and fussed around for about an hour before packing up our little family and headed to Kingston. We stopped at Glenburnie grocery store (the most delicious place on earth), picked up some bread, steak and homemade dessert. Then we took Odus into Pet Smart where everyone adored him and fussed over how handsome and well behaved he is - we are lucky that he is so wonderful because at 120 pounds, ill-behaved is not an option. After our trip to the store we headed to the Vanderlinde's for a delicious pizza dinner and to catch up with old friends (and their wonderful parents). We had a few drinks, some sinfully delicious pizza with ranch dressing and great conversation to catch up on each others lives. We eventually sent ourselves home around 10:30, packed the little dog into the littler car and hit the road. I do love car rides with Ty, I find that although we may critique each others driving, we also have great conversations. So we chat our way home and end up getting in around 11:30 and get the puppy into bed, get ourselves in to bed, and lights out at midnight after a fabulous day!

At 7:00 I can feel Ty rustling around so I move in for an early morning snuggle and mention that pancakes would be delicious - half an hour later, I get woken back up by "Sam, pancakes!" - HOW PERFECT! So I race downstairs to find a plate of pancakes and a smiling husband making me a french vanilla, yum! So we sit down, have breakfast and then move into the living room to have our coffee so we can be with our baby boy.

My day is now just starting - me, sitting in my living room with my new little family, cup of french vanilla in hand, searching over realtor.ca, how absolutely blissful my life is.

Now off to work on the house! My Day will only get better from here, my life will only get better from here!

S