{"id":978,"date":"2013-10-15T06:07:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T06:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=978"},"modified":"2013-10-15T06:07:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T06:07:50","slug":"of-reached-and-unreached-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/15\/of-reached-and-unreached-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"of reached and unreached resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I woke up this morning and knew that today was the day my house WOULD get clean. I resolved to put my children’s needs ahead of my goal, but I also promised myself that by the end of today, my whole house would be organized, picked up and sanitary.<\/p>\n

I made little progress on that goal until I put the children to bed at 8:30pm. Between that time and now, I have reached my goal. I am so tempted to type the details of what went into accomplishing that feat, but I think that would make me look vapid and vain. So I’ll keep those [vapid and vain] thoughts to myself, and I’ll just tell you that right now I feel great about life.<\/p>\n

Also, Lydia has been taking her angel pills lately. While I was organizing my closet this morning, she came over and–out of the blue–started giving me a foot massage. I eventually had to sit down because she was so intent on doing a good job. I love her.<\/p>\n

Additionally, I realized I need to take a chill pill on 1) spills and 2) accidents. First of all, I, a thirty-year-old woman, still spill things, so surely I should not be shaming my little two-year-old for spilling her\u00a0water<\/em>. (!!) Secondly, I should cut her some slack in the accident department. This evening, Lydia had an accident right before bed, and I was about to get upset when she started apologizing all over the place. She apologized all the way to the bathroom, and then when I was saying our night prayer, she interrupted me to petition God for help so she wouldn’t have any more accidents. I felt appropriately awful about myself. From here on out I AM going to be a nicer mom. I hope, I pray.<\/p>\n

Speaking of how I need to be nicer, here’s some visual evidence that I have ample room for improvement.<\/p>\n

\"Mary<\/a>
Mary didn’t get much of an afternoon nap, and so I had to hold her at all times. At one point, I got tired, put her down, and took a picture of what happens when I put her down. Please note that I did not deprive her of food, attention (I was taking a picture of her, hello!!!) or love. I just put her down<\/em>. Yes, this is my life right now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"I<\/a><\/p>\n

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I suspected I wouldn’t have time to take more pictures today, so I prolonged Mary’s distress long enough to take one shot of Lydia. I just wanted to memorialize this day marked by so much angelic behavior.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

I also abandoned Mary as soon as it started hailing outside. Leaving Mary wailing in her high chair, I ran to Lydia and carried her outside as fast as possible so she could learn about hail. I have no idea why I thought it was so important that she experience hail, but at the time it seemed urgent. I must be sleep deprived or something.<\/p>\n

The only other thing of note today was my phone conversation with my mom and grandma. They are so sweet.<\/p>\n

\"My<\/a>
My grandma did not want me to Facebook this picture, but I forgot to ask permission about the blog. Grandma, I’ll take it down if you want, but you look so fantastic that I just had to put it up, at least for a little bit!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Abe's<\/a>
Abe’s traveling today, and during our phone conversation tonight, it seemed to make perfect sense for him to send me a picture of his dinner. I don’t even know why I’m including this in the blog–maybe just so Abe is represented a little bit in the day? I don’t know.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I woke up this morning and knew that today was the day my house WOULD get clean. I resolved to put my children’s needs ahead of my goal, but I also promised myself that by the end of today, my whole house would be organized, picked up and sanitary. I made little progress on that … Continue reading of reached and unreached resolutions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}