A Sweatpant Kind of Day

It is one of those lazy, sweatpant kind of days around here. The fall weather is descending slowly upon our area, creating that lovely morning chill enough to send me skirting out of my pj’s directly into the next best thing–sweatpants! The baby awoke this morning 2 days-post-immunizations, lethargic and needing to cuddle. She went willingly to a morning nap at 9am. What was a sweatpanted-mother to do but crawl into my own bed and take a nap too?! God bless sweatpant days.

Our day will be less than ordinary around here–no practices or fancy outings, no lessons or homework–just the hum drum of home life. The boys will soon return from preschool, we’ll lunch and play, walk outside to fetch our oldest, and be back again for more afternoon play and adventures. On the menu tonight are turkey pesto panini sandwiches made with the homemade bread that currently bakes in our breadmaker. We’re topping it off with leftover beef stew from last night and I’m already imagining the family sitting around the dinner table, snuggly in sweatpants and enjoying every minute of our coziness.

After stories and jammies and snuggles, we’ll kiss our little ones off to dreamland in prep for a bustling weekend full of soccer and pumpkins and ninja costume-wearing at a friend’s party. It will be full and they will need to be fresh.

But for tonight, my husband and I will settle in, watch a movie, snuggle on the couch and drink in our evening. For it will be a sweatpant kind of night, the best kind to be celebrated.