{"id":15568,"date":"2018-07-02T01:44:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T01:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/?p=15568"},"modified":"2018-07-03T01:50:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T01:50:42","slug":"creative-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/02\/creative-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"creative girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today during Clarissa’s nap Lydia announced she was going to sew Mary a stuffed animal. I was busy reading\u00a0My Cousin Rachel<\/em> and absentmindedly gave her the go ahead. An hour later I was shocked when Lydia came back with a stuffed cat head she had sewn for Mary.<\/p>\n

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I was really proud.<\/p>\n

And then the girls had a puppet show with a ton of paper bag puppets they made. It’s amazing what happens when I completely check out for the day. Apparently the girls are completely capable of creating their own wholesome entertainment. I am used to toddlers who get into mischief the second they are separated from a screen. It’s so great to have older kids!<\/p>\n

Ammon, on the other hand, did spend a lot of his day in front of the television while I read\u00a0my book. That felt like a parenting fail.<\/p>\n

But both girls had great musical practices, which I managed to supervise in spite of my addicting book. And Clarissa is alive, which is really about as much as I can hope for for her. I’m not exactly expecting her to sew or practice an instrument anytime soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today during Clarissa’s nap Lydia announced she was going to sew Mary a stuffed animal. I was busy reading\u00a0My Cousin Rachel and absentmindedly gave her the go ahead. An hour later I was shocked when Lydia came back with a stuffed cat head she had sewn for Mary. I was really proud. And then the … Continue reading creative girls<\/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-15568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568","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=15568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15569,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568\/revisions\/15569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}