{"id":7120,"date":"2015-04-30T03:37:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T03:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=7120"},"modified":"2015-04-30T03:37:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T03:37:18","slug":"fairy-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/30\/fairy-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairy tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best part of the day occurred when I resolved my major issue of the day: I wanted to keep reading my new book,\u00a0<em>Portrait in Sepia<\/em>, by Isabelle Allende, but I also felt massive guilt for ignoring my kids for so long. Finally, I realized the obvious: It was a beautiful day, and I could just read outside on a chair in the shade while the kids played.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t have any toys or play equipment outside, and I wanted them to entertain themselves for a\u00a0<em>long\u00a0<\/em>time. So I instructed them to hunt for fairies. Lydia took that so seriously and for the next couple hours narrated to me all details of her fairy hunt. She was so enamored with the fairies that she&#8217;d coaxed from our magic tree that she refused to eat dinner and instead ran upstairs to have a dance party with them. During dinner, she kept showing up and asking us how we liked this article of clothing or that piece of jewelry that the fairies had bestowed on her. I think we&#8217;ll play this game every day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7121\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0311.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7121\" alt=\"Earlier in the day, the girls made a picnic while I read my book. I took this picture and then quickly rescued my mom's shawl (the picnic blanket).\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0311-e1430364354595-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earlier in the day, the girls made a picnic while I read my book. I took this picture and then quickly rescued my mom&#8217;s shawl (the picnic blanket).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7124\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7124\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0549.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7124\" alt=\"The fairy tree. Lydia is pointing to the door wherefrom the fairies emerge.\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0549-e1430364657745-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fairy tree. Lydia is pointing to the door wherefrom the fairies emerge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7122\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7122\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0540.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7122\" alt=\"On their evening errands with Abe.\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0540-e1430364375370-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On their evening errands with Abe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best part of the day occurred when I resolved my major issue of the day: I wanted to keep reading my new book,\u00a0Portrait in Sepia, by Isabelle Allende, but I also felt massive guilt for ignoring my kids for so long. Finally, I realized the obvious: It was a beautiful day, and I could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/30\/fairy-tree\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fairy tree<\/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-7120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120","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=7120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}