{"id":1861,"date":"2013-12-31T05:06:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T05:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2013-12-31T05:06:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T05:06:22","slug":"meta-and-another-dinner-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/31\/meta-and-another-dinner-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta and another dinner party"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend, Maria, is in town, so this morning we went to Bikram together. We had a great time, despite the profuse fountain of sweat spurting off of the man behind us. Afterward Maria humorously referred to the situation as “his hydroponics.” That made me laugh.<\/p>\n

Then we went to Liberty Heights for cheese, and then to Harmon’s for groceries and lunch. We ate in their little cafe area and talked a lot about blogs.<\/p>\n

Maria had a lot of great insights into blogging, one of which was that our children deserve privacy. I agree, and so I came away conflicted about my own blog (which deprives my children of that right). So I’ve been thinking, and here are the reasons I blog:<\/p>\n

a) personal therapy\/fun<\/p>\n

b) to preserve memories and chronicle our family life<\/p>\n

c) for my sweet grandma’s daily reading material<\/p>\n

d) to help any interested people to get a glimpse of how some\u00a0Mormons live (light on a hill and all that stuff, except when I’m writing all the bad stuff down–then the light gets pretty dim!). I know there are a lot of monetized Mormon mommy blogs out there, and from what I’ve read and heard of them, I don’t think they represent my<\/em> “Mormon mommy” life at all. So even though I would never try to monetize this blog or even try to reach a large audience, at least I’m representing my reality as best as I can.<\/p>\n

e) because I must be a narcissist. I mean, who else blogs their thoughts every single day? Even though this troubles me greatly, the thoughts keep happening and the blogs keep getting written…<\/p>\n

For reasons c and d, not to mention what a hassle it was for me to read my own blog when I had the password system in place, my blog is public. But maybe sometime in the future, that will change again.<\/p>\n

We also talked about reading blogs. Personally, I’ve cut out reading any blog that does not teach me to do something (like cook or craft). By my standards, I would not read my own blog if it weren’t my own.<\/p>\n

So enough meta. Tonight we had a great dinner party with Maria, her husband, Kyle, and a mutual friend, Cynthia Barlow. I had heard a lot about Cynthia but never met her before tonight. What a lovely person! I am excited because I think she might buddy up with me on a yoga pass, which would be awesome.<\/p>\n

Also, to record the bad stuff: I burnt the squash for the dinner party. It was pretty mortifying. I did the squash rings again, and I was SO excited because I amped up the egg and cheese in the filling…but then I baked them on the bottom rack so that there’d be room for the souffle (tonight’s menu was an exact repeat from our dinner party on Friday), and the bottoms of the squashes burned. So sad!<\/p>\n

Today’s pictures are few, but here they are:<\/p>\n

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Abe and Lydia playing with Lydia’s play food.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Then Abe left, so Lydia and I played with her new doctor set. After curing me, she helped out her sick doll, Tessa. At one point, Lydia took all of my measurements and exclaimed, “You look great!” I love this little girl.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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