{"id":5418,"date":"2014-10-15T02:59:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T02:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=5418"},"modified":"2014-10-15T02:59:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T02:59:41","slug":"festivus-for-the-rest-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/15\/festivus-for-the-rest-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Festivus for the rest of us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night Mary barely slept, so Abe and I were exhausted today. Heck,\u00a0Mary<\/em> was exhausted; after breakfast, she took an hour and a half nap. After she woke up, we did errands while Lydia was at preschool.<\/p>\n

One of our errands involved shopping for a baby shower present. I walked into Pottery Barn Kids and was disgusted (for the first time ever in that particular store) because there were\u00a0Christmas\u00a0<\/em>decorations everywhere. Halloween, one of my favorite holidays of the year, hasn’t even happened yet!!! I want to walk in places and see witches, ghosts, and hobgoblins, and, most of all, PUMPKINS AND ALL THINGS FALL–not elves and Santa!<\/p>\n

Also, I genuinely hate the commercialization of a holiday that does have actual religious significance to me. So in the spirit of objection, I went home and baked babka and celebrated Festivus<\/a>. I air grievances all the time, and in light of how much I love babka (tonight was the first time I’ve had it), I think it should be a regular holiday around here. I’m sure I can drum up an aluminum pole somewhere…<\/p>\n

Anyway, since I knew my social anxiety could NOT handle the baby shower, and since Abe was home exhausted with the kids, I literally spent ten seconds at the shower– enough to hand over a gift, grimace, and flee in terror. Even the ten second exposure I had kept me panicking until I made two more personal, uplifting visits on the way home (one to a visiting teachee and one to Abe’s aunt). Those picked me right back up.<\/p>\n

I should stop writing and go help Abe. The poor man is cleaning the house, and I know he’s about to drop from exhaustion.<\/p>\n

Here are the pictures!<\/p>\n

\"Making<\/a>
Making babka.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The messy chocolate part.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"One<\/a>
One of the loaves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"While<\/a>
While I was gone, Abe made these broom with the girls for our FHE activity. I should note that they foraged for all of the materials in our yard. When I got back, we sang along to Frozen and I showed the girls a picture of my dad and taught them a little about who he was.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night Mary barely slept, so Abe and I were exhausted today. Heck,\u00a0Mary was exhausted; after breakfast, she took an hour and a half nap. After she woke up, we did errands while Lydia was at preschool. One of our errands involved shopping for a baby shower present. I walked into Pottery Barn Kids and … Continue reading Festivus for the rest of us<\/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":[14,21,22,31,33,37,42,58,67,69,86,87,94,95,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-mormon","category-cooking","category-crafting","category-errands","category-family-history","category-fhe","category-food-pics","category-lydia-pics","category-naps","category-old-testament","category-reading-for-fun","category-reading-to-my-children","category-scripture-journal","category-scriptures","category-visiting-wvisiting-teachee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418","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=5418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}