{"id":17291,"date":"2019-02-16T07:07:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T07:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/?p=17291"},"modified":"2019-02-18T07:30:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T07:30:39","slug":"water-ducks-pizza-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/16\/water-ducks-pizza-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Water, Ducks, Pizza, Books"},"content":{"rendered":"
I have to admit that life is very good right now. Work is very good, but very difficult right now. I usually come home with work worries and stress running through my veins. Sometimes I\u2019m tired, distant, grumpy etc. But having weekends with my family has become one of the great oases of my life. A year or two ago, I made the decision to try to never work on Saturday or Sunday. I\u2019ve stuck to it fairly well, and that has allowed those days to be all about family, fun and recovery. So yes, I LOVE MY WEEKENDS!<\/div>\n
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Saturday was quite low key. I took care of the kid in the morning while Lily went to yoga. About the time Lily came home, Lydia\u2019s friend, Grace, came over to play. Grace was about an hour late and Lydia was so excited to play with her that she was innocently saying things like, \u201cwhen is Grace going to get here!\u201d When Grace came, she and Lydia did not want to play with Mary, and Mary was extremely sad at being left out. \u00a0Her situation gave me the idea to take her on an outing. We have an enclosed jogging stroller that we caused the buddy bubble. I got it out, ran to the store for a tire pump and \u00a0pumped up the tires.<\/div>\n
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While working on the stroller, Mary came into the garage, and said, \u201cdad, there is water coming out of the light, it\u2019s kindof weird.\u201d I have this really bad habit of ignoring signs of trouble so I can stay in a blissful ignorant state. For example, when our basement was flooding, and Lydia came into the bedroom to tell me and Lily (who were in bed) that the basement carpet was wet, I rolled over and said I\u2019d check it out later. Lily was the one who ran downstairs and discovered that water was gushing into our basement and soaking everything. Well, I almost made the same mistake this time. I initially convinced myself that kids are always spilling stuff, and I probably just wasn\u2019t understanding what Mary meant, and there was likely just a spill somewhere. But then remembering how wrong I was with the basement flood (to not respond), I went in the house to check things out. Sure enough, water was streaming out of the can light in our ceiling. I ran upstairs to tell Lily to turn off her shower. And then we got Moroni, our friend and repair man to check things out. It will be a simple fix for him. It just made the day a bit more interesting.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0After the water drama, I then ran to the park pushing Mary and Ammon.<\/div>\n
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At the park we fed the ducks and played on the playground. The ducks were hilarious to me. I\u2019m sure there were over one hundred of them. We parked ourselves at a pavilion that didn\u2019t have a duck anywhere near it, and we started throwing bread. Within seconds the ducks were swarming us. It was quite the site! Here are two quick videos:<\/div>\n
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Duck video 1<\/a><\/div>\n
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Duck video 2<\/a><\/div>\n
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We had a fantastic time. I also felt extremely grateful that my knee did not lock up on the way home. I usually can\u2019t run past 4 or 5 miles without it locking up from pain, and Lily was on call to pick me up if needed, but today I didn\u2019t feel a think so that was a huge blessing.<\/div>\n
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At home, we hung around and then I went and picked up Slab Pizza that Lily called in for the family. Our great friends, the Harbucks, introduced it to us, and it\u2019s now one of our favorite pizza places.<\/div>\n
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After eating pizza and putting the kids down, I read a lot of scriptures and then went to bed. Lily and Lydia stayed up reading their books. Lily finished \u201cThe Age of Innocence\u201d by Edith Wharton, and Lydia finished, \u201cPercy and the Olympians\u201d by Rick Riordan. They are both such book worms. Each of them only started their book yesterday!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to admit that life is very good right now. Work is very good, but very difficult right now. I usually come home with work worries and stress running through my veins. Sometimes I\u2019m tired, distant, grumpy etc. But having weekends with my family has become one of the great oases of my life. … Continue reading Water, Ducks, Pizza, Books<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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-17291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17291","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17294,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17291\/revisions\/17294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}