{"id":2000,"date":"2014-01-16T04:24:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T04:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2014-01-16T04:24:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T04:24:55","slug":"spur-play-date-and-outing-reality-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/16\/spur-play-date-and-outing-reality-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Spur play date and outing reality check"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve all been getting sick for a while now, but I was in denial all morning because I wanted Lydia to be able to go to preschool. Our co-op has a rule that runny noses aren’t allowed, and you would think that’s pretty easy to understand except that I get hung up on the definition of “runny.” Finally, I admitted to myself that she really did have a runny nose, and we stayed home. Bummer.<\/p>\n

Until! Until the phone rang. Aria called and suggested a play date, which was \u00a0perfect\u00a0<\/em>since her kids both had slightly runny noses too. Great! We proceeded to have an awesome play date which culminated\/ended in lunch and hot chocolate. By the time we were done, Mary was waaaaay overdue for her nap (usually at 11 am, today pushed to 1:30 pm).<\/p>\n

After naps, I loaded the girls in the car. They have not set foot outside of the house since Sunday; we were overdue for an outing. But man, oh, man, by the time we were done with our library-grocery store run, I was just about ready for self-induced house arrest for the rest of winter. Waiting in line with two screaming children in an understaffed Sprouts was…horrible. To be fair, Lydia was great 90% of the time, but all it takes is a five minute meltdown for the whole outing to feel like a total disaster. By the time I got both girls back into the car, I was ready for a meltdown myself. Also, Mary lost her binky half way through our outing and screamed for the rest of the time. I spent about five minutes searching up and down the aisles for it before giving up and heading toward the mile long check-out lines.<\/p>\n

To make it slightly worse, the woman behind me kept making exasperated sounds while I fumbled to get my groceries loaded onto the checkout stand. I was holding one screaming baby in one hand while the other cried and hung onto my legs, and I was mentally already throwing the b-word around when I realized that the poor woman looked like she was about to have a heart attack. She was bent over in pain and looked ashy gray in the face. I should have made sure she was okay, but she didn’t seem to enjoy the time my situation had already cost her, so I figured I’d better skip the small talk. Instead, I tried to internalized the lesson: Don’t judge on appearances. A woman who might appear to be an unfeeling, heartless b– is much more likely to be a wonderful person who might be acting out of her own personal duress. I hope I have more understanding and patience the next time I run into someone like that.
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Anyway, here are today’s pictures:<\/p>\n

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I set up the princess castle tent for the play date. Espen really wanted Enna to come in with him.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"He<\/a>
He wanted to give her a hug. Precious overload.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mary<\/a>
Mary was on the go the whole play date.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Lydia<\/a>
Lydia put this hat on Espen. His great grandparents were the first LDS converts from South Africa after the missionaries were sent in the second time, so this was actually a pretty appropriate attire. Also, the girls and I spent part of the morning playing “Imagination” on that pink blanket. I’d forgotten how fun that game is! Also, Lydia handed me a pretend sea shell during dinner, thanks to our morning game.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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At the library. Lydia was up to her old hoarding tricks again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"I<\/a>
I made stuffed pumpkins again, and I kind of love taking pictures of them. They’re just…cute.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve all been getting sick for a while now, but I was in denial all morning because I wanted Lydia to be able to go to preschool. Our co-op has a rule that runny noses aren’t allowed, and you would think that’s pretty easy to understand except that I get hung up on the definition … Continue reading Spur play date and outing reality check<\/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":[6,14,21,22,29,31,40,42,50,53,58,60,63,65,67,69,75,77,80,86,87,94,95,109,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abe-sick","category-book-of-mormon","category-cooking","category-crafting","category-email-correspondence","category-errands","category-floor-time-with-my-children","category-food-pics","category-library","category-lily-sick","category-lydia-pics","category-lydia-sick","category-mary-pics","category-mary-sick","category-naps","category-old-testament","category-phone-call-with-mom","category-piano-practice","category-play-date","category-reading-for-fun","category-reading-to-my-children","category-scripture-journal","category-scriptures","category-time-with-friends","category-vacuum-basement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","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=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}