{"id":5738,"date":"2014-11-10T03:58:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T03:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=5738"},"modified":"2014-11-10T03:58:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T03:58:54","slug":"blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/10\/blast-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the past"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abe left for D.C. today, and having him gone brought back all the memories I have from his last job. I had completely forgotten what it was like staring down an evening alone in the house with the kids, but to my delight, what happened tonight is nothing like the monotony I recall from being alone during Abe’s Guardsmark trips.<\/p>\n

The girls and I cuddled up on the couch and binge watched\u00a0The Living Scriptures<\/em> videos, I fed them dinner at 3:30 pm \u00a0(much more in sync with their actual hunger cycle, but normally I have to time their meals so we can have a family dinner with Abe), played with them, read to them, showered, got everyone ready for bed, read scriptures with them, prayed–and voila! 8 pm bedtime happened for the first time in six months. Daylight savings helped, but still. It felt great to be back on track.<\/p>\n

Then I updated my family tree with some information I got from the Philippine Jesuits and watched this video <\/a>about a million times. I discovered it a couple days ago and can’t stop watching it. My heart feels so full and achy each time I watch. I guess Chicago will always feel like my authentic home, even though I am genuinely happy to have adopted Utah for the–indefinite–future.<\/p>\n

Here are the pictures from today.<\/p>\n

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playing with\/in the suitcases you gave them, Grandma. On a recent play date one of Mary’s friends played with this suitcase and Mary freaked out and started crying, pointed to the suitcase and shouted, “Gamma Cuwen! Gamma Cuwen!” (Translation: “Grandma Cullen gave ME that!”)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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performing the trick she was trying to show you on the phone, Mom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abe left for D.C. today, and having him gone brought back all the memories I have from his last job. I had completely forgotten what it was like staring down an evening alone in the house with the kids, but to my delight, what happened tonight is nothing like the monotony I recall from being … Continue reading Blast from the past<\/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":[10,17,21,33,40,41,53,58,63,75,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-videos","category-church","category-cooking","category-family-history","category-floor-time-with-my-children","category-folded-laundry","category-lily-sick","category-lydia-pics","category-mary-pics","category-phone-call-with-mom","category-reading-to-my-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738","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=5738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}