{"id":2578,"date":"2014-03-02T05:53:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T05:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2014-03-02T05:53:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T05:53:52","slug":"competition-win-and-the-atom-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/02\/competition-win-and-the-atom-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"competition win and the atom bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"

I won my cooking competition this morning!!! Well, okay, okay. They announced it was a tie, but when I got home and looked at the scores, I realized that the judges forgot to circle\/add up one of my scores, so I technically won by one itsy bitsy little point. But still! I got a ticket for two to our school restaurant and a Ninja chopping machine. Abe and the girls came and cheered me on, and it was so fun to see their smiling faces through the glass.<\/p>\n

The surprise ingredients weren’t that hard, really. They told us to use orange roughy and apples on our plate, which had to contain a starch, vegetable, sauce and garnish. Here’s what I did:<\/p>\n

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I made a blue cheese polenta cake, beet\/carrot\/apple\/poppy seed slaw with raspberry vinegar, baked orange roughy and a candied lemon garnish. The blue cheese was rancid; I thought it was tangy, but I didn’t realize it was rancid until the judges absolutely tore me apart for it. Also, I plated my fish upside down. Oops! Thankfully, the other two competitors in my division made the same mistake. We’re all learning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then we came home and ate lunch. Ironically, I had to throw out my food before eating it all because we were in such a rush to clean the kitchen. Also, Abe had to leave early because he forgot to put a diaper on Mary this morning, and there weren’t any in the car. Oops! Mornings are hard for him.<\/p>\n

I spent the girls’ hours of quiet time finishing my most recent book,\u00a0Bomb: The Race to Build–and Steal–the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon,<\/em> today. It was a total page turner, and now I am scared that we’re all going to get blown up by the crazy people in power around the world. I sneaked to the library just before they close to get some more books to help calm me down.\u00a0
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My relationship with Mary deteriorates by Saturday afternoon because I’m gone all evening Friday and all morning Saturday. She gets so mad at me that when I finally get back, she screams if I touch her and clings to Abe for dear life. The only way we get back on friendly terms is if I play peek-a-boo with her feet and let her step on my face. I’m not kidding:<\/p>\n

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Also, Lydia found grown-up socks today and wore them the rest of the evening.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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She also made Abe wear her headband.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lydia and I had another piano lesson today. I remember how hard it was to sit still when I was little, and I’m so proud of her for enduring. We made it to thirty minutes today. When I told Abe I want to try for an hour on Monday, he asked me to keep it to thirty minutes because he’s a more fun, compassionate parent than I am. Maybe we’ll compromise at forty-five. Our poetry session was truncated by my need for a nap, but we did read “Tiger, tiger, burning bright”<\/a> and “The Lamb”<\/a> by William Blake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I won my cooking competition this morning!!! Well, okay, okay. They announced it was a tie, but when I got home and looked at the scores, I realized that the judges forgot to circle\/add up one of my scores, so I technically won by one itsy bitsy little point. But still! I got a ticket … Continue reading competition win and the atom bomb<\/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":[14,21,29,31,38,40,42,49,50,52,53,58,63,67,69,77,78,82,86,87,92,94,95,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-mormon","category-cooking","category-email-correspondence","category-errands","category-finished-a-book","category-floor-time-with-my-children","category-food-pics","category-k","category-library","category-lily-pics","category-lily-sick","category-lydia-pics","category-mary-pics","category-naps","category-old-testament","category-piano-practice","category-piano-with-lydia","category-poetry-session","category-reading-for-fun","category-reading-to-my-children","category-school","category-scripture-journal","category-scriptures","category-wasted-time-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","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=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}