It’s funny how you can get to the end of the day and not even remember what it is that happened. I was up. The big kids went to school. Dad had to go somewhere. I read on the couch for a while in my pajamas drinking coffee. The boys slept in until a little later than usual. Usually when they get up they get some breakfast then play with the dog.

We did our Bible lesson again and then I worked on cleaning my room. I had to put away some clothes and hang up the new one I’d bought. Everyone took care of their own breakfast but I made some kind of enchilada tator tot dish for the boys to have for a real lunch. We took the dog for a walk and Ethan did his speed workout on the hills.

After lunch I said, boys, I need to take a short nap now. If I really want to make sure I will sleep I put on a podcast that I have no interest in listening to. It works just about every time I would say. I read again then fell asleep. I woke to Josh calling and wondering if there was anything else he should pick up for the birthday dinner meal.

He listed off the things and I couldn’t think of anything else. I looked at the podcast time stamp and it’d been playing for 18 minutes. But that was enough to revive me and take away the sleep from my eyes. So I got up and told the boys it was time to turn off their game soon. I tried out some of my clothes and wrapped the presents for the evening.

While I was wrapping I decided I wasn’t going to go into Contact. There was too much going on in the evening and everything would be easier if I didn’t try to go. Alexis said she wasn’t going in either. She just moved to a new apartment and wanted to get things settled in. I texted my mother-in-law also to see if she wanted to come over tonight.

Ethan and Laura had their engagement photos this evening at camp. She came over about two hours early right as I was about to go to County Market to get chicken. Dad hadn’t got any because he thought we would use the rotisserie chicken from the fridge. I told him I had used that for lunch. I bought a few other things for snacks and meals.

We had a nice time around the table for supper. The pictures got over around 7 which is about when we started eating. We started a new tradition where we go around and say something we appreciate about the birthday person. I appreciated how everyone appreciated people. We tried on Zorro’s collar and it looks really nice on him. She held up the smaller one and we couldn’t believe how little he was before.