Dav saves my frustrating Sunday

I had one of those Sundays where things just didn't go smoothly. To begin with, both Dav and I have been tired lately. We have been overbooking ourselves with lots of fun social events, yet not quite balancing the fact that we have to wake up at 6am every morning now for Tesla. And although I'm an extrovert, every once in a while I need major down time to hole up and relax. So I've been feeling the need to slow down.

Dav went off to see the Queen Mary squeeze under the GG bridge, but I passed on that. I did want to spend a little time helping Elida since she is moving soon, and with my upcoming trip to Japan, Sunday was the only day I had. With the nice weather, we couldn't resist planning a small picnic with Tesla before packing boxes. All that sounded nice.

I had a couple house chores I left undone. And I usually don't like to go out and play until all is finished. So there was that little bit of unsettledness. But then the small frustrations began to build up. When I drove to our local sandwich place to pick up lunch, got Tes out of the car seat, and stood in line, I realized I didn't have enough cash. Put her back in the car seat while she protested loudly, drove to the supermarket where I can use a card, got her out again and while doing so knocked my head on the car breaking my sunglasses, and finally got sandwiches. Those of you with babies know that all this is in addition to finding keys in a packed diaper bag, fixing socks that are about to fall off small feet, finding entertaining toys to distract baby wanting to get out of car seat, holding baby while grabbing sandwiches AND a few other items while baby lunges for everything close by...you get the hectic picture.

Later once I got home, I realized I lost an earring which must have been when I knocked my head. They were really pretty earrings that Dav gave to me a week ago. I was just going to blog about how happy they made me since Dav had just surprised me out of the blue. [I drove by this morning to see if they might be on the street where I parked, but street cleaning *just* went by. Gagh!!!!]

Elida and I had a lovely picnic, thankfully. And although I didn't really help her much, I felt better to have got out and hang with her. Got home, finished up my chores, fed Tesla and the cats, and started on a soup that I needed to do in order to use a pile of veges that weren't going to last much longer. So I was feeling a little better but still very tired.

Then at dinner, Dav made my day by saying, "you kick-ass" meaning I was handling well the balance of house, baby, husband, and work. It was in the context of him encouraging me to go out on a girls' night since he felt he owed me. Like I said, I've been craving to stay home, and have not felt gypped at all when Dav has gone out. But it made me so happy that he noticed all the things I'm doing. I do them because I want to and I honestly enjoy taking care of Tes and being very domestic. I love it. It's just super duper cool that my husband notices and appreciates it. I guess that's why I got those earrings. Darn darn darn that I lost one already being so busy doing mom stuff!!