{"id":19451,"date":"2020-06-06T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/?p=19451"},"modified":"2020-06-07T21:00:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T21:00:10","slug":"family-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/06\/family-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today I woke up late. I was going to go on a bike-ride, but it’s been so rainy that my friend and I postponed for one week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As soon as I woke up, I had a Zoom call with my AXB college group. I was so excited to talk to them to process with them all that is happening in the world. One of my AXB friends, Andrew, has devoted a large share of his life to improving a distressed neighborhood in Philadelphia, and all of my AXB brothers have sensitive hearts when it comes to social justice. It was so healing and informative to talk to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that, I played in the sandbox with my children. It was sooooo much fun! It actually took me back and made me think of when I used to play in my friend Anthony’s sandbox as a child. We’d build up river banks, and then bring in the hose in and frantically try to build and repair the banks as the water eroded them. With the children, we did a lot of landscaping. We built tunnels, rivers, castles, and bridges. When the water came in repairs needed to be made! I had such a good time. It totally drew me in and entertained the kids. At one point, Lydia turned to me and said, “Dad, if I could have one thing in the world, you know what it would be?” I told her I didn’t know. She said, “Nothing.” Fathers live for moments like that. She asked me what I would want if I could have anything in the world. I just said that other people who don’t share our privileges could have better lives. More on that in tomorrow’s blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had Lily’s amazing potato pancakes for lunch. I LOVE Lily’s potato pancakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lily was super busy in the morning exercising, cooking and being productive, but she slowed down in the afternoon, which I was grateful to see because of how hard she’s been pushing it. I for sure was taking it easy. I did do a lot of housework, but it was all at a pretty gentle pace, and felt like recovery because the work week strains my mind, not my body, so picking up toys etc, feels quite nice to me on a Saturday and a great mental break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around 4:00 I played Zingo with Mary. She has been progressing down her hundred chart for eye exercises, and one of the rewards she requested was a daddy day. I said I wouldn’t do a fully daddy day, but I’d love to have a daddy hour with her. The plan was to play Zing, get a treat together and maybe (if time) build a boat together for Lydia’s Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around 4:30 or 5:00 we ran family errands. We returned some things to the gap. Lily went into Trader Joe’s, and I got some sprinkler parts from Lowe’s. While Lily was in Trader Joe’s I played a game with the three kids (Lydia was at home with Georgia) in which we threw the ball to each other, and whoever caught it had to say a yummy thing they liked. Ammon and Clarissa were beside themselves with laughter as they said yucky things (like dog poop) instead of yummy things and I reacted dramatically. Then Mary and I went to ColdStone. ColdStone shared space with Cinnabun, and Mary said that is what she wanted. It was a perfect choice for a rainy day, so we got Cinnabuns for the family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At home we all had dinner, and then ate our Cinnabun. Here is a video of Clarissa with her’s.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After dinner, I watched the next Dark Crystal with the kids. It was sooooooo good. After putting the babies to sleep, I met Mary in the basement for the final portion of our daddy daughter time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was so sweet! When I went to the basement, Mary was all ready for me with her cat blanket laid down and materials all prepared for our project. We worked happily together. I made a boat, and she made a creature. We decided to make her creature the driver of my boat. It was another moment of pure bliss today. I.Love.My.Family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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