{"id":4383,"date":"2014-07-21T03:49:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T03:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=4383"},"modified":"2014-07-21T03:49:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T03:49:51","slug":"busy-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/21\/busy-on-the-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"busy on the horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was a little crazy at church. Abe and I had a meeting with the stake president wherein Abe got a calling that will take a lot more time. I knew this meeting was coming, and secretly (or actually, not so secretly) I had been hoping Abe’s new calling would translate into a release from my <\/em>new\u00a0calling. I really miss going to Sunday School, and I’m slightly allergic to meetings that happen on any day other than Sunday. (Not activities, just meetings.) No such luck.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the whole point of Sunday School is to make us better disciples, and disciples serve without complaint. So I guess Sunday School won’t avail me anything if I can’t learn to serve happily. That’s my current goal. Paragraph number one is a fantastic indicator of all the progress I’ve made on that goal.<\/p>\n

I visit taught today for a couple hours, and when I came home, everyone was awake and playing on the lawn.<\/p>\n

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Abe and I contemplated calling friends to come over, but we were still exhausted from Friday’s lack of sleep, so instead we just played with the kids all evening. We played, “Sleeping bunnies” for the better part of forty-five minutes, and Mary still couldn’t get enough. She jumps up and down like a pogo stick every time the bunnies wake up, and then she shouts “Gain!!” (Again!!). We acquiesced approximately one million times.<\/p>\n

Then we played hide and seek. Originally, I intended to lie on the couch while Abe played hide and seek with the girls, but Abe begged me to play and told me I could hide on the bed. I took him at his word; almost all of my hiding spots included lounging under a blanket. It was actually really funny because even though I was hiding in plain view (albeit under a blanket), Lydia and Mary would come up and check all the spots around me and still not know where I was. It was so funny and cute.\u00a0They eventually found me each time because I couldn’t help laughing when they were so near and yet so bewildered.\u00a0
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We then spent the rest of the night reading to the kids and trying to work up energy to get the kids ready for bed. After we put them down, I read Abe a bunch of excerpts from, Carry on Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed<\/i> by Glennon Doyle Melton. I loved the book, and we both got some great laughs from the excerpts.<\/p>\n

Now we’re going to try to go to bed early to make-up for Friday.<\/p>\n

Also, as a post script, this is absolutely the most beautiful summer I have ever experienced weather-wise. The weather here is gorgeous. I can’t get enough of the open windows. Yay, beautiful weather that makes life feel good even when my natural state is not quite there!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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