{"id":2980,"date":"2014-04-06T04:37:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T04:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2014-04-06T04:37:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T04:37:23","slug":"general-conference-time-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/06\/general-conference-time-again\/","title":{"rendered":"General Conference time again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Mary woke up at 5:19 am because she is teething (finally!!!). Since I was already up, I went to 6 am Bikram and then came home and practiced before General Conference started.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had Grandma Darais on our minds all day. Abe said he doesn&#8217;t feel ready for his grandma to die, and he wishes he had spent more time with her while she was alive. He&#8217;s going to write his thoughts tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>I started practicing\u00a0<em>Claire de Lune<\/em> tonight in preparation for the funeral or family reception. I don&#8217;t know if or when I&#8217;m supposed to play it, but apparently I&#8217;m going to be asked to play it at some point, and since I&#8217;ve never played it before, 10 pm tonight found me picking my way through it. Our neighbors had a late night poker party going on, so they were indulgent and let me practice above them. We looooooooove them. Anyway, this was Grandma Darais&#8217; favorite piece&#8211;and I seem to recall my grandma loves it too. Grandma, I thought I could kill two birds with one stone: I&#8217;ll prepare this piece for Grandma Darais&#8217; events, and then when we come to visit in May, I&#8217;ll play it for you if we can find a piano.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Mary said her name today! It was so cute. I was bathing her and Mary&#8217;s toy turtle with little plastic man (Grandma, these are your old bath toys! Remember them?) floated away. She got quite concerned and pointed to her out-of-reach toy and blurted out, &#8220;Mareee!&#8221; She wanted me to give the toys back to &#8220;Mareee.&#8221; I tried to have her say her name again, but so far she&#8217;s best at saying words when she&#8217;s in a desperate situation. When she tries to think about it, the process seems a lot harder.<\/p>\n<p>Here are today&#8217;s pictures:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2982\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7270.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2982\" alt=\"Abe and the girls had a dance party while I practiced. Lydia made sure everyone had a picture she'd colored taped to their tummies...and, of course, the girls had their balloons.\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7270-e1396758701982-682x1024.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abe and the girls had a dance party while I practiced. Lydia made sure everyone had a picture she&#8217;d colored taped to their tummies&#8230;and, of course, the girls had their balloons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2983\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2983\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7271.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2983\" alt=\"Preparing to watch Conference.\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7271-e1396758712265-682x1024.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preparing to watch Conference.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2981\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2981\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7273.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2981\" alt=\"...Or maybe she was just preparing to play in the chair.\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7273-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230;Or maybe she was just preparing to play in the chair.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Mary woke up at 5:19 am because she is teething (finally!!!). Since I was already up, I went to 6 am Bikram and then came home and practiced before General Conference started. We&#8217;ve had Grandma Darais on our minds all day. Abe said he doesn&#8217;t feel ready for his grandma to die, and he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/06\/general-conference-time-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">General Conference time again<\/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":[12,20,29,31,32,50,58,60,63,67,77,86,87,95,120,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikram","category-conference-talk","category-email-correspondence","category-errands","category-exercise","category-library","category-lydia-pics","category-lydia-sick","category-mary-pics","category-naps","category-piano-practice","category-reading-for-fun","category-reading-to-my-children","category-scriptures","category-wasted-time-online","category-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","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=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}