Lazy Day Part One
- Natasha
- Jul 18, 2015
- 2 min read
Today is the day our darling relatives drive out to meet us. It is also a lazy day. I got up relatively early, just in comparison to the late night we’d experienced before, and I had a shower. That’s the most productive I got until 4:00pm. I read and blogged and lay around during the time in between. Almost eight hours of nothing, which, shockingly, isn’t even a record. I managed to get Netflix going and watched some Pretty Little Liars, which I haven’t done for quite some time so it was nice to catch up. Once four o’clock arrived, it was time to make dinner and my turn to do it. I made a salad, chopped up some potatoes and helped Dad with the corn and the bratworsts. I was just finishing setting the outside table when Auntie Suz and Uncle Adam arrived with my three cousins. It was a fun night. Auntie Suz and I took the kids to the park and when little Simon got tired, Auntie Suz took him home, leaving Isaac and I to look after Kate and Claire. They both wanted to play some tag, and when I was inevitably caught, because they’re both very fast I was forced to sit in the sandbox and tell them stories. Apparently I’m a good story teller, according to Claire, because we stopped the game after a while so the girls could listen to my tale about the flying pig, Wilbur. When the sun started to go down, we went back to the trailer where the girls and I spent the time before bed playing Heads Up in our room. I got the two of them into their PJ’s and they climbed into Isaac’s lower bed so they could sleep over with us. I stayed up for a bit longer. I finished Allegiant for the second time, cried because of the ending for a second time and then headed for bed whilst the adults played a game of Ticket To Ride in our front yard. I started City of Bones in bed, so I could give the little ones a chance to go back to sleep before I did, and read a couple chapters before I clicked off the light. That wasn’t the end of the day however. Sometime in the night, Kate woke up and she apparently wanted her mom, or so I gathered from her cries of, “I want my mommy!” I was actually about to get up to see if I could calm her down, but Dad beat me to it. She went back to sleep and so did I. I think everyone was tired by that point. Peace out m8s.
