Head Tale

As part of my new job as Regent Place Branch Head, I now work a few evenings and weekend shifts each month which means at least once a month my “weekend” is on Monday and Tuesday.

This can be a big advantage sometimes when Pace is in school and I can get to appointments I might otherwise not attend or get lots of errands done (trust me – if you’ve ever been to a Costco on a Tuesday, you’ll never go on a weekend again if you can help it!) 😉

Here’s what Shea and I did today…

7:45am – wake up after staying up way too late last night watching a Flames game I’d taped earlier in the evening and surfing around online

8:24am – send Pace out to bus after getting him up and ready for school (breakfast, teeth, hair, lunch ready, etc.)

9:40am – go to get Sasha’s six month needles and catch up on news at the public health office where Shea works.  Also pick up another load of probably hundreds of dollars worth of baby clothes from one of Shea’s co-workers which is saving us a *ton* of money!

10:00am – Shea won a piece of art at a nursing conference last year. I don’t know much about art but turns out the guy who painted it is turning into a pretty big deal.  Originally from Regina, Andrew Salgado is now based in London, England.  His mom is a nurse which is the connection to both Shea and my mom (who was the one who made the initial arrangements for the artist to sign the painting now that he’s back in Regina for a homecoming show in the city where he grew up.)   The artist wasn’t home but we were able to drop off the painting to be signed and will get it back in a few days.

11:00am – go for early lunch at Fortuna, one of Regina’s newest restaurants, an Italian place co-owned by Regina’s former mayor.  It was a bit pricey for what you got and I’m not sure it’ll become a regular stop for us.  But always fun to try new places.

12:00pm – pick up a Christmas gift for Pace (I’m not going to mention it here since I don’t know if he reads my blog yet but I do know he can read!) and a part for our van which is booked into a local garage later in the day.

1:00pm – after dropping Shea and Sasha at home, go into work for a couple hours for a couple meetings – one planned and one spontaneous.  Yes, it’s my day off but our workplace allows us some degree of flexibility and so coming in for a couple hours on a Tuesday means I might slip out a couple hours early on a Friday some time which is a pretty decent trade if you ask me! 😉

3:37pm – drop car at home then walk over to pick up Pace at school which is a couple blocks from our house.  You can add “seeing Pace’s face when he sees me waiting for him after school” as another great thing about having the odd day off mid-week.  It’s only a couple blocks to his school but since we live across a fairly major road, Pace still gets bussed.  So it’s nice when I can save him a twenty minute bus ride and get him home in five minutes instead!

4:00pm – load up everybody and take a caravan of vehicles – our van which is booked in for some repairs and our car to get everybody home – to a repair shop that was recommended to us as doing good work at a reasonable price (extra important now that our van’s warranty expired this past summer!)

4:30pm – decide to really spoil ourselves and go out to eat again at an off-the-radar Thai place in a semi-industrial area of the city. It’s not highly rated on UrbanSpoon (although only two reviews so hard to judge) but I remember hearing it called a hidden gem of Regina by someone.  Both Shea and I were very pleasantly surprised with the tastiness of our meal.

5:30pm – home and spend some time hanging out with Sasha while Pace plays outside with a friend (and inside once it gets dark.)

6:00pm – I’d seen a post on Facebook that a CBC reporter was looking for pictures of kids having fun in the snow so sent in one I took of Pace in the schoolyard when I picked him up yesterday.  They apparently ran it but I forgot to tune in until the telecast was half over so missed seeing it.

7:00pm – in what is a very rare occurrence, Sasha falls asleep in my arms in the living room (most nights, she goes to sleep after nursing in the rocking chair in her bedroom with Shea) so I get to put her to bed.

7:30pm – go for a nice long hot bath

8:00pm – help finish off Pace’s bedtime routine (Shea’s given him his snack so it’s pyjamas, teeth-brushing and flossing and then usually some combination of a story and/or some TV and/or iPad.)

9:00pm – watching a Flames game while typing my daily blog post.   Bed to follow soon.