{"id":12411,"date":"2017-07-01T01:05:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T01:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=12411"},"modified":"2017-07-01T01:05:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T01:05:49","slug":"super-lengthy-post-about-a-fantastic-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/01\/super-lengthy-post-about-a-fantastic-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Super lengthy post about a fantastic Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday was a wonderful day! The upside to my fall is that, in terms of bed rest, &#8220;my guilt is swept away.&#8221; I had problems before because I felt like if I technically\u00a0<em>could\u00a0<\/em>walk, even with pain, I\u00a0<em>should<\/em> be walking and doing everything that I possibly could to be independent.<\/p>\n<p>With the fall, I am no longer physically capable of much, so I have enthusiastically retired to my bed and comfy chair by the window. I have finished five books, taught myself to crochet, planned out the week, and have generally enjoyed resting, praying, thinking, and looking out my window at the incredible view.<\/p>\n<p>Abe had a fantastic Saturday too! He took the kids out for breakfast and then to Jo-Ann&#8217;s to get fabric and material for all of the projects I&#8217;ve planned this week. I can sit, so the girls and I are going to spend a lot of time embroidering, sewing, and crocheting. (I also intend to knit, but since I only have one pair of knitting needles, that will have to be a solo activity.) I also figure we can spend a whole lot of time reading. We have been so busy that I haven&#8217;t read with or to the kids nearly as much as I would like, and bed rest is proving to be such a marvelous opportunity to catch up on that too.<\/p>\n<p>Ack, look at me! I intended to write about Abe&#8217;s Saturday and then went on about me. Ick. Basically, Abe had a wonderful Saturday and felt really happy all day long. The stress of last quarter dissipated and he feels very optimistic about the new quarter.<\/p>\n<p>He also had a fun interaction with the girls. They were misbehaving so Abe took away their dessert privileges. The girls then ran inside to compose and choreograph a song to change his mind. Minutes later they ran back to Abe singing and dancing about what a wonderful, fun, strong, funny, awesome dad he is. It worked! He gave in and they were allowed to eat dessert.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Singing to Abe to earn back dessert privileges\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sbj0bmKMXPE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mary sings to Abe for dessert\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RgyEkKTwb5Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My mom had a good Saturday too. She checked out a local festival with one of her visiting teachees, and now she knows all about what to do with Abe and the girls on the 4th of July.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, Abe and I went to Lucas and Kim&#8217;s house for a Poldark date. I spent the whole day in bed saving up so I could manage to get myself to the car for our date. I almost cancelled, but we plan these things months in advance, and all I had to do during the evening was sit on their comfy couch. All of us HATED the episode we watched. Ross cheats on Demelza!!! I think Lucas wants to watch something else entirely next time, but Abe is still intrigued by the Poldark plot. I think the series has seriously degenerated, but I enjoy Lucas and Kim, so I&#8217;ll watch whatever.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday was a wonderful day! The upside to my fall is that, in terms of bed rest, &#8220;my guilt is swept away.&#8221; I had problems before because I felt like if I technically\u00a0could\u00a0walk, even with pain, I\u00a0should be walking and doing everything that I possibly could to be independent. With the fall, I am no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/01\/super-lengthy-post-about-a-fantastic-saturday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Super lengthy post about a fantastic Saturday<\/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-12411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411","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=12411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}