{"id":1531,"date":"2013-12-01T05:10:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T05:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2013-12-01T05:10:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T05:10:20","slug":"slowing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/01\/slowing-down\/","title":{"rendered":"slowing down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abe and I both felt like we had been run over by trucks for most of the day, so today was more about muddling through on low energy and aching muscles, and less about getting stuff done. We did manage to make it to the temple, and Swathi, Clark, Mom and I took Lydia to the library (although she fell asleep and slept through that entire outing).<\/p>\n

We came home, ate pizza, and got the girls ready for bed. Swathi, Clark and Balu invited us to go to the movies with them, but Abe and I were so tired that we opted to be boring and stay at home instead. After the girls went down, I lay in bed reading The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook<\/em>, which I checked out from the library’s “Lucky Day” collection. That made my day feel appropriately lucky; I want to cook almost everything in the book, and I love all of Deb’s essays and pictures.<\/p>\n

During the girls’ naps and quiet time, I made another dent in The Table Comes First<\/em>. Adam Gopnik’s essays on the intersection of food and culture are gorgeously crafted, but I can’t read them for more than twenty minutes at a time before I fall asleep. I really don’t think that’s a reflection on his writing at all; more likely, my attention span is shortening and my ability to focus is waning. I haven’t finished a book in ages, although I have started plenty.<\/p>\n

Here are the pictures from today:<\/p>\n

\"Mary<\/a>
Mary playing while the rest of us lay on the couch in a stupor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Ten<\/a>
Ten minutes earlier, Abe was in this exact same position with his pj’s on when I informed him that we had a houseful of babysitters and had no excuse not to attend the temple today. He agreed, showered, changed, and resumed his former position until it was time to go.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mary<\/a>
Mary played the piano this morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Aunt<\/a>
Aunt Swathi affirmed her talent.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"We<\/a>
We were delighted to come home from the library to find Mary eating in her Bumbo. She was an uncharacteristically great eater today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abe and I both felt like we had been run over by trucks for most of the day, so today was more about muddling through on low energy and aching muscles, and less about getting stuff done. We did manage to make it to the temple, and Swathi, Clark, Mom and I took Lydia to … Continue reading slowing down<\/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":[5,14,31,52,63,67,77,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abe-pics","category-book-of-mormon","category-errands","category-lily-pics","category-mary-pics","category-naps","category-piano-practice","category-temple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","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=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}