{"id":2259,"date":"2014-02-11T02:58:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T02:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2014-02-11T02:58:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T02:58:40","slug":"a-series-of-delightful-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2014\/02\/11\/a-series-of-delightful-events\/","title":{"rendered":"A series of delightful events"},"content":{"rendered":"

Days like this make me wonder why every day can’t just be like today. Why can’t they? I can’t figure it out, but I’m really glad when days like this happen.<\/p>\n

This morning Lydia crawled into bed with me and wanted the iPad. I trade the iPad for practice time reciting scriptures, and today I actually recorded her reciting her scripture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then we went to a Valentine’s day party at preschool:<\/p>\n

\"mary<\/a> \"audrey\"<\/a>Lydia spent the rest of the day going through the valentines from her friends over and over. She had so much fun.<\/p>\n

Then I took the kids to Gateway for Dairy Queen Blizzards and some pizza:<\/p>\n

\"lydia<\/a>Again, this part of the day made us all unreasonably happy.<\/p>\n

Then I gathered my courage and took both girls to the movie,\u00a0Frozen.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"frozen\"<\/a>This was their first movie, and they loved it. Well, Mary spent most of the movie climbing up and down the stairs and running around the theater while I chased her. Thankfully, there was only one other family in the theater, and they had small kids too. At one point, Mary ran right under the huge screen just as a big boom from the movie rang out. She let out a delighted yelp and ran as fast as her little legs could carry her straight back to me. \u00a0She’s my little thrill seeker.<\/p>\n

Then we came home and took naps. They napped so long that I didn’t have the heart to wake them in time for me to get to class, so I just read all of the class slides and did a bunch of homework instead.<\/p>\n

The only low point was when I lost my temper at Lydia after dinner because she was screaming for cake. But that really was the only low point for Lydia and me, and the rest of the day was just a delightful series of fun events. I guess if this happened every day, I wouldn’t appreciate these good times the same way…but really, it would be so nice.<\/p>\n

On top of it all, Abe got moved up into a track that positions him for the next round of promotions today, so honestly, every one of us had a great day.<\/p>\n

Now it’s time for baths and bed. I think I even have time to read my book tonight. Yay!<\/p>\n

Here are some more pictures from the day (mainly for Mom and Grandma!):<\/p>\n

\"Talking<\/a>
Talking with Nana and Grandma Cullen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Lydia<\/a>
Lydia wanted them to see her cat’s pink smile.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"She<\/a>
She spent a lot of time trying to get them to see her cat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Here's<\/a>
Here’s her cat’s “pink” smile. He needs a bath…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"I<\/a>
I did Mary’s hair while we were on the phone. Clearly, I need to focus more when I’m attempting pigtails.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"After<\/a>
After naps. Trying to figure out the iPad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Because<\/a>
Because I don’t understand the “less is more” principle when it comes to pictures of my kids.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Days like this make me wonder why every day can’t just be like today. Why can’t they? I can’t figure it out, but I’m really glad when days like this happen. This morning Lydia crawled into bed with me and wanted the iPad. I trade the iPad for practice time reciting scriptures, and today I … Continue reading A series of delightful events<\/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":[14,27,29,53,57,58,63,66,73,75,83,93,95,109,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-mormon","category-eat-out","category-email-correspondence","category-lily-sick","category-ltempl","category-lydia-pics","category-mary-pics","category-movie","category-phone-call-with-grandma","category-phone-call-with-mom","category-preschool","category-school-work","category-scriptures","category-time-with-friends","category-wasted-time-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259","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=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}