Day 21 - Hard Work Pays Off

We had nothing planned for the day so I told the kids we would sleep in.  Yet Sammy was up around 8:00 “for snuggles”.  At 8:25 am, Scott sent me a phone message saying that the HVAC guys were hoping to install our new units today and asked me to call them back to coordinate.  I gave them a call and imagine my surprise when they said they were planning to arrive at 9:00... Um OK.  A quick glance in the mirror told me I had a lot of work to do in the next 25 minutes.  I quick woke up Tyler, sent Sammy in to get dressed, jumped in the shower, did my makeup / hair, and literally was pulling the sweater over my head, when the door bell rang.  Ha!  We made it.

There were 3-4 men working in the condo until early afternoon.  We have two HVAC units, one in the back hallway and one in the laundry room so they were back and forth and even on the balcony when they needed to torch cut some items.

Since our morning had been interupted, we still hadn’t had breakfast so we made pancakes and tried to get things back on track.  Tyler worked on his therapy while Sammy did her reading and I did my devotions.  Then the kids had free time while I got some work done.

Since it was closing in on lunchtime, we headed out (with Coco) to grab lunch at Steak & Shake and make a return at WalMart.  I got held up in the car on a phone call so the kids took the dog up just in time to see the HVAC guys head out.

When I got upstairs, we worked on a few things around the condo... putting all that laundry away, folding linens, moving construction supplies to the storage closet, picking up packages, etc. We actually worked up quite a sweat!

As a reward we decided to visit Broadway on the Beach.  Although we planned to see the aquarium, it was closed so we did the upside down building “WonderWorks” instead.  It was lots of fun!  We’ve done it so many times, I never really look forward to going but yet everytime surprisingly seems like more fun than the last.  Maybe its that the kids are getting older... I don’t know!  But this time was especially cool because we were the ONLY ones there.  Literally as we bought tickets, they told us we were the only customers and that they were contemplating closing early.  Luckily, some more folks joined after us so they stayed open at least until we finished up after 6:00 pm.

We enjoyed our walk back to the truck, looking at shops and talking about things in the window displays.  When we got home, I put together some homemade pizzas and we finally sat down for supper around 8:00 pm.  Phew!

I know it seems late, but it actually will work out well because Tyler has earned a reward from his therapy that we all get to stay up tonight until midnight... so we are all having a sleepover in the den.

After supper, we headed down to the hot tub and then back up for PJs and a major match on the Nintendo.  Then it was a quick break for cookies while we watched a movie.  We are all tucked in and settled so its lights out!  Good Night!