{"id":1539,"date":"2013-12-02T05:34:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T05:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2013-12-02T05:34:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T05:34:13","slug":"farewell-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/02\/farewell-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, family =("},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was Clark and Swathi’s last day in Utah. I am so sad they are gone, especially since while they were here we had in-house babysitters all the time. Abe and I both took two hour naps today and trusted that Lydia was in the greatest possible hands while we were zonked out.<\/p>\n

And tomorrow my mom leaves, so by tomorrow night I will feel completely bereft. We will even see less of Balu than we have over the past weekend, simply because he will be gearing up for finals. <\/del>I guess I should not mourn the future and instead focus on how great this past weekend with my family has been. Today I didn’t even have to cook since Balu and Swathi cooked some amazing Indian food–and Swathi even baked a pecan pie for us all. It was delicious.<\/p>\n

Aside from napping all day and nursing a crazy headache, I had a wonderful visit with my visiting teacher, Erica Bowen. It’s amazing how uplifted a good visit can make me feel, and her insights and experiences buoyed my faith and happiness quite a bit.<\/p>\n

I also loved just chatting with my family after we put the girls to bed. It was so fun to do nothing but sit around and talk for two hours. I love my family.<\/p>\n

Since my headache is not getting any better and I still have a lot to clean, let me just finish and post the pictures of the day.<\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>
This is Abe feeding Lydia and Mary. This system looks strange but is surprisingly functional.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Swathi's<\/a>
Swathi’s rice. I don’t have a picture of Balu’s awesome chicken, but it was beautiful!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Swathi's<\/a>
Swathi’s pie. Yum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Lydia<\/a>
Lydia eating dinner #1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Our<\/a>
Our attempt to capture a gorgeous sunset.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Swathi<\/a>
Swathi and Balu in the kitchen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Balu<\/a>
Balu with Clark and Swathi’s Black Friday purchase (the iPad air).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Tom,<\/a>
Tom, Suzanne, and Jere stopped by after dinner, just in time to take our picture,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Clark<\/a>
Clark and Swathi with their nieces.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mary<\/a>
Mary pulled Lydia’s hair — maybe to try to get her to look at the camera??<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was Clark and Swathi’s last day in Utah. I am so sad they are gone, especially since while they were here we had in-house babysitters all the time. Abe and I both took two hour naps today and trusted that Lydia was in the greatest possible hands while we were zonked out. And tomorrow … Continue reading Farewell, family =(<\/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-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","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=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}