This is what I heard all. after. noon.

The perfect day really.

Bible Study this morning without rushing home to get Drew off the bus. Mark picked him up for me and then I met him at home to a full lunch spread and 2 birthday balloons (there were 3, but one was a casualty of his sunroof).

He surprised me by taking the whole day off and even provided me with a typed out agenda for the day–which included relaxing in bed with a magazine he bought me with a hot latte and candy bar while he cleaned out my car.

Does it get much better than that?

I read. I wrote part 3 of our adoption story which I had wanted to write for about 3 months now. I read hundreds of Facebook wall posts of well wishes. I relaxed. Mark cleaned, played wii with Drew, and occupied Lydia who decided she wasn’t into napping through such a fun day. He fed all the kids an early dinner then took 3 of them to Ashlyn’s gymnastics while I stayed home with Evan and played Wheel of Fortune (the board game from 1987–no joke). He was stoked at the phrase he got to guess.

And, I got some fun presents too like a gift card to Anthropologie (oooo….) and this totally nifty creation for my iPhone…

and 3 pennies and a roll of my own scotch tape from Drew. He’s so thoughtful.