Meria

This morning, we relaxed. I tried to sleep in, but alas we room in with my toddler so...I got pummeled in the face and mommy'd around 6:30. That's okay. My husband is so great and he took her down when he got out of the shower and I had a blissful 10 minutes until he had to leave for work...then all three of my lovely children came up to find out what I was doing. 

So I made pancakes. I'm fasting, so I didn't eat them. That's okay. Sometimes it's hard but sometimes it's life. I was starving so I decided to start eating at 10 and stop at 5 but I actually didn't get home until after 5 so I did have dinner at 6. Oh, well. Life, and I tried! 

For lunch we had egg salad wraps! They were good. With bacon and apple slices.

We had such a wonderful day. We rested in the morning and did chores. Becky found her stuffed animal that she lost weeks ago. It was wadded up in the sheets we keep for making forts! Yay! She was heartbroken to lose her favorite bunny snuggle and now it's back again and peace is in our house. 

We had lunch and Esther's nap. My husband had to go into the office and his office is still closed so he had to be escorted around the premises. He said it was down to 70 degrees there which is great! The air conditioners are working slowly and they are turning things back on. I think he goes back to the office full time next week. I'm almost certain nothing this crazy will happen again anytime soon. Right? Hah.

After Esther's nap I did my first ever public school pick up and we went to get Meria (not real name), my friend Kim's foster son. He is in first grade at a local school and let me tell you I felt like an imposter in their driveway picking him up! Gone are the days of kids just running out to their parents cars like in my time---they had two teachers outside with walkie-talkies and you gave the name of the kid you were picking up and out they came! We had to take Meria to visitation with his mom downtown in an hour so first we went to the public library and chilled. It was around 99 degrees so I was so thankful for the library. My kids were thrilled to play on the computers and so was Meria. 

We also checked out some library books. After the library we dropped Meria off and walked around. We ended up getting ice cream downtown and playing at the new park.

We then picked Meria up and saw him hug his mommy for a long time. I know she loves him so much! I don't know their story and I didn't ask questions. I took the kids home to play in the sprinkler for an hour while I finished up dinner! This morning I was suave enough to put a big piece of meat in the slow cooker and set rice on a delay in the instant pot. I hastily made some veggies and we dined in style. The kids played out side for another hour then Kimmy came and picked up Meria, and my kids finished off the night by watching the Mario movie. Kim had three (or two?) teeth operated on! Pray for a quick recovery. 

I'm about to put Esther to bed, Brian is finishing mowing the lawn, and it's about to storm. Perfect night to end a fun day. Tomorrow Brian has off and I can't wait to spend the day with him, even if it's doing chores.