{"id":18318,"date":"2010-11-25T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T06:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/25\/happy-thanksgiving-4\/"},"modified":"2020-02-01T03:38:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T03:38:27","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/25\/happy-thanksgiving-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving!"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the reasons I started a blog was to train myself to take more pictures. For years I have lived by the philosophy of “the moment is more important than the photo,” and as a result I have precious little photographic documentation of the last decade of my life. This will not do, and I am determined to change my ways before Lydia arrives.<\/p>\n

Therefore, I was bummed yesterday evening when I realized that I had missed an entire day’s worth of fun photo opportunities. My sweet friend Amelia came down to Hyde Park and spent the day with me, and before we met up I packed my camera, resolving once again to be a better picture-taker. But alas, I had so much fun that I forgot to take a single picture until we were on our way back to the train station. The following are two pictures I took at a stoplight.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Can’t you tell how sweet Amelia is?<\/div>\n
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We started off by making cards with some lovely, crafty people at church and then we came home and baked chocolate chip cookies.<\/div>\n
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As yummy as the cookies were, I can not overstate how fun it was to make cards. Granted, my cards were remedial compared to everyone else’s, but I had so much fun that it didn’t matter. I came home and made more cards.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0And then tonight I got carried away and made a couple more…<\/div>\n
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Abe has to inspect his client accounts until 2am, and I suffer from perpetual anxiety that he will get hit by a drunk driver while he’s driving around at all hours of the night. I discovered tonight that listening to Christmas music and making cards is a great way to calm down. I now have only two more hours to kill. Perhaps I will start on a sewing project. I have not sewn in years, but recently a kind person lent me her sewing machine and gave me a ton of fabric, so I can start making baby dresses, quilts, etc.<\/div>\n
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But first things first. I started crying when Abe had to go to work tonight. SO pathetic, I know, but pregnancy hormones + anxiety about loved ones getting killed in car crashes = ridiculously emotional scenes. Abe decided to drive me to the gym (one block away from our home), presumably in the hope that endorphins would solve my problems. I don’t know how effective the endorphins were, but I did leave the gym quite sweaty, and a shower would be advisable right now.<\/div>\n
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So the current game plan: Shower, pj’s, and sew until Abe comes home (assuming he survives the drunk drivers who are currently wreaking havoc on our roads and loved ones).<\/div>\n
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And if I get sad again, I have this picture Abe drew on my computer to cheer me up:<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Oh, and happy Thanksgiving! My heart bursts with gratitude for family and friends. I am also thankful to have discovered such pleasant ways to pass the time, and I am grateful for good music. What makes your heart sing with gratitude this Thanksgiving? I would love to hear your list!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the reasons I started a blog was to train myself to take more pictures. For years I have lived by the philosophy of “the moment is more important than the photo,” and as a result I have precious little photographic documentation of the last decade of my life. This will not do, and … Continue reading Happy Thanksgiving!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-18318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18318","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18467,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18318\/revisions\/18467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}