{"id":7699,"date":"2015-06-30T02:32:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T02:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=7699"},"modified":"2015-06-30T02:32:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T02:32:47","slug":"cleaning-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/30\/cleaning-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After I spent the entire day deep cleaning the house, I lay in bed trying to catch my breath before Abe came home. As I lay there, I heard Lydia say in the next room, &#8220;Mary, come on! Let&#8217;s make\u00a0<em>the biggest mess ever<\/em> and surprise Mama! Won&#8217;t that be fun?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have energy to protest, so I opened\u00a0<em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>\u00a0and read my troubles away.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, &#8220;the biggest mess ever&#8221; turned out to be a couple board books in the middle of Ammon&#8217;s room, and so my entire day didn&#8217;t go totally to waste.<\/p>\n<p>Abe had a great day at work, but we&#8217;re biting our nails because tomorrow is the end of the quarter, and the one deal he needs to go through to hit his quota has been stuck in his client&#8217;s legal department for weeks. We are hoping it goes through tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7700\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0739.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7700\" alt=\"I spend an inordinate amount of time in bed. Therefore, my bedroom windows have intense significance to me. As the seasons have passed, I keep thinking there is no way my view can get better--but the other day, I realized I have a luscious trumpet vine growing on the side of my window! Not only that, but hummingbirds hang out in front of the flowers. My cup runneth over.\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0739-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I spend an absurd amount of time in bed. One of my chief joys in life consists of looking out of my bedroom windows; I can remember every bedroom window I&#8217;ve ever had (26). As the seasons have passed in this house, I keep thinking there is no way my view can get better&#8211;but the other day, I realized I have a luscious trumpet vine growing on the side of my window! Not only that, but <em>hummingbirds hang out in front of the flowers.<\/em> My cup runneth over.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7701\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7701\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0740.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7701\" alt=\"If I turn my head, I see Mt. Timpanogos.\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_0740-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If I turn my head to the left, I see Mt. Timpanogos. If my whole life fell apart, I think these two windows (and God, of course) could probably keep me going.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7702\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7702\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1935.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7702\" alt=\"FHE sharing time. Both girls shared their balls.\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1935-e1435630788430-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FHE sharing time. Both girls shared their balls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7703\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1936.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7703\" alt=\"Lydia did a live demonstration on how a ball works. \" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1936-e1435630797650-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydia did a live demonstration on how a ball works.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Right now Abe is crafting birthday cards with the girls for our FHE craft while I blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I spent the entire day deep cleaning the house, I lay in bed trying to catch my breath before Abe came home. As I lay there, I heard Lydia say in the next room, &#8220;Mary, come on! Let&#8217;s make\u00a0the biggest mess ever and surprise Mama! Won&#8217;t that be fun?&#8221; I didn&#8217;t have energy to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/30\/cleaning-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cleaning day<\/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-7699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699","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=7699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}