{"id":1101,"date":"2013-10-25T04:43:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T04:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2013-10-25T04:43:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T04:43:45","slug":"culinary-school-and-a-little-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/25\/culinary-school-and-a-little-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Culinary school and a little visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

I signed up for culinary school this morning. I am so excited! I have dreamed about this for years, and I can’t believe it’s actually happening.<\/p>\n

At first I was worried about childcare, but then we realized that if I took two night classes a week, I wouldn’t have to worry about that at all. I can just drop the girls off at Abe’s office at 5:30pm, and his office just happens to be exactly on the way to school. So, um, no drawbacks. I am going!!!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"My<\/a>
My new school!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Classes start November 7, and orientation is November 6.<\/p>\n

\"As<\/a>
As I was leaving, I sneaked a shot of the entrance. I was just so excited.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Abe is out of town tonight, so he took the morning to accompany me to the office to sign up for classes. I am allergic to numbers and anything related to finance, so his presence was greatly appreciated. Sorry, we fall into traditional gender stereotypes in that area (as in so many others), but I fervently hope my girls will overlook my bad example and take after their grandmas, among whom are notable math whizzes. For–one shining–example, Abe’s mom owns a tax practice and is amazing with numbers.<\/p>\n

After our long morning, we came home and had a typical afternoon filled with meals, snacks, naps, reading, and playing pretend. Well, it was mostly Lydia running around playing pretend, but I did finally join her for a little bit before informing the girls they had to get ready to go visiting teaching with me. I then loaded them in the jogger and walked to my favorite (I can say that, right?! None of my teachees reads my blog!!) visiting teachee.<\/p>\n

\"Marilyn<\/a>
Marilyn lives about two blocks away, so it was a short walk there. But I was struck by the beauty of the evening, nonetheless. Also, I was slightly appalled\/judgmental when two sweet-faced women ran by me exchanging exasperated tales of some sort or another. I wanted to shake them and say, “Do you see where you are?!?! Look over at that expanse of grass and that flower bed over there and then<\/strong> tell each other how bad your lives are!!” …And then I realized: That’s how God must feel about me, all the time<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Marilyn's<\/a>
Marilyn’s parents built her house back in the 40’s and I think it is one of the cutest houses in the neighborhood. Also, I love her winding walkway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Marilyn gave the girls Halloween bags of goldfish for the walk home, and they finished their snacks in the dark before I finally cajoled Lydia into coming inside.<\/p>\n

\"Lydia<\/a>
Lydia was enjoying eating her goldfish, which she spread carefully out on our very dusty table.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"In<\/a>
In the meantime, Mary busied herself trying to climb in and out of the stroller.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"She<\/a>
She succeeded multiple times and appeared endlessly amused by it all. Abe made me PROMISE to include in this post the following: Mary is going through a stage where she giggles at…everything. Her giggle is so cute–kind of a low trill that ends in a half-gasp because she’s run out of air. When she’s crawling or attempting to toddle around, she constantly smiles and makes this sweet little sound.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After that it was baths, reading, and bedtime. Then I came downstairs and ate too much (as usual), scrubbed down the kitchen, took out the trash, picked up some, and now am blogging. Right now there’s a pile of clean laundry as tall as I am next to the bed waiting to be folded…on the other hand, there is, right next to that, a book<\/a> by my favorite essayist, Adam Gopnik, also waiting to be read. I wonder which one will win out?<\/p>\n

Did you even see how dusty that table was?? <\/em>Probably the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I signed up for culinary school this morning. I am so excited! I have dreamed about this for years, and I can’t believe it’s actually happening. At first I was worried about childcare, but then we realized that if I took two night classes a week, I wouldn’t have to worry about that at all. … Continue reading Culinary school and a little visit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}