{"id":6430,"date":"2015-02-07T08:47:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T08:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=6430"},"modified":"2015-02-07T08:47:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T08:47:56","slug":"more-smooth-sailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/07\/more-smooth-sailing\/","title":{"rendered":"More smooth sailing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I have days where I realize my life is too easy. I am definitely not complaining, but I don’t think this lifestyle can possibly be healthy or sustainable long term. Doesn’t the best growth come from struggle? In my last ward, almost every Sunday School lesson came back to a discussion about how to endure the hard blows of life. I always felt like such a wuss listening to everyone because my only real struggles right now are with my own character flaws. If I ever actually become that “new creature in Christ” I pray every day to be, my life (if the situation remains stable) will be simple and utter bliss.<\/p>\n

And that is why I steel myself every day for some blow from the sky. I probably can’t become the person I want to be without enduring a couple of real trials, and so days like these feel peaceful in a kind of eerie way.<\/p>\n

All that to say, we had a perfectly normal day. I worked out, took the girls to the park, made dinner, and somewhere in there took a nap.<\/p>\n

It’s now 1:30 am, and I have just finished binge watching season five of\u00a0Downton Abbey<\/em>. I fell asleep right after putting the girls to bed, and when I woke up two hours later, I couldn’t get back to bed. Hence my irresponsible use of late night time.<\/p>\n

My only hope for tomorrow is that the girls will sleep in. They had a full, long day today, and Mary swapped her usual three or four hour nap for a one hour one. I pray we all wake up together at 10 am tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Although today wasn’t terribly productive in the chore department, I did play a lot with the girls, and that made me happy. When we first moved into this house, I made sure that all toys were kept either upstairs or in the basement. I reasoned that I would never have a mess downstairs if I kept it that way. The downside, which I overlooked, is that I rarely ever play with the girls now.<\/p>\n

I wish I could say I took steps to remedy the situation, but the credit actually belongs to Summer, the girls’ babysitter. She moved some puzzles and dolls to the main floor a couple days ago, and we have all been playing more ever since. I’ve decided I prefer the current arrangement.<\/p>\n

Pictures:<\/p>\n

\"We<\/a>
We have been cuddling a lot lately. It’s my favorite activity.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Sorry<\/a>
Sorry to have caught Abe mid chew (didn’t check the picture ’til just now!), but at least I caught a picture of how Mary eats these days. She eats standing up and I have to constantly remind her not to straddle the chairs while she chews. Maybe it will be easier for her to eat normally when she’s taller??<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Now<\/a>
Now that we have toys nearby, we can actually stop what we’re doing and play together.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I have days where I realize my life is too easy. I am definitely not complaining, but I don’t think this lifestyle can possibly be healthy or sustainable long term. Doesn’t the best growth come from struggle? In my last ward, almost every Sunday School lesson came back to a discussion about how to … Continue reading More smooth sailing<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430","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=6430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}