{"id":12533,"date":"2017-07-10T04:06:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T04:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=12533"},"modified":"2017-07-10T04:06:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T04:06:05","slug":"resolves-and-abes-hard-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/10\/resolves-and-abes-hard-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolves and Abe&#8217;s hard day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning my mom took the kids to their morning swim lesson, and they are making progress! I am really, really, REALLY hoping this summer they learn to swim.<\/p>\n<p>While they were at swim lessons, I found this on Lydia&#8217;s bed:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_5743.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12534\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_5743.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She had tucked Puss in before she left for swimming. It warmed my heart to see evidence of her sweet childhood tenderness. On Sunday my heart broke for her when I discovered her sobbing quietly on the floor because I had taken away her privileges unjustly. It was a big misunderstanding, but we cuddled, I read her a personalized book my grandma had made about her, and we cuddled until she felt better. I hope she always knows she is treasured and loved. I spend way too much time correcting her ALL the time, so I am going to try to be better about that.<\/p>\n<p>During Ammon&#8217;s nap the babysitters leave for two and a half hours. Today the girls and I spent the whole time together. We listened to\u00a0<em>Charlotte&#8217;s Web<\/em> while Lydia cross stitched and Mary&#8230;watched me do her crafts. I made her two pom-poms, one of which she is displaying below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_5765-e1499746026297.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12536\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_5765-e1499746026297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also crocheted two flowers for the girls. Lydia made hers into a ring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_5766.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12537\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_5766.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s my new reading pile! I read the Terry Tempest Williams book in the morning and spent the rest of the day squinting at everything.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_5744.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12535\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_5744.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, Abe had a really hard day at work. One of his deals had a complication that made his life very difficult, and then he came home, made dinner for everyone, got everyone ready for bed, and cleaned Mary&#8217;s poop. That&#8217;s right. Mary, almost age five, pooped in her pants, and Abe had to clean her up. (My mom helped clean the bathroom that had poo all over it.)<\/p>\n<p>After FHE, Abe told me the idea of African adoption is sounding better and better. I think he might be tired of having me on bedrest too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning my mom took the kids to their morning swim lesson, and they are making progress! I am really, really, REALLY hoping this summer they learn to swim. While they were at swim lessons, I found this on Lydia&#8217;s bed: She had tucked Puss in before she left for swimming. It warmed my heart &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/10\/resolves-and-abes-hard-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Resolves and Abe&#8217;s hard day<\/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-12533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12533","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=12533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}