I think I’m so far behind with the blog, I’m afraid I’m not going to get caught up! <\/p>\n
My mom left last Thursday :(. We miss her. It was so nice to have her here. I sure miss my family after my infrequent visits with them! I didn’t get pictures taken but here’s a short list of the things she did – created pretty metal baskets of flowers for Analise’s room, decorated Analise’s window treatments, put up an ABC border near the ceiling of Josiah’s room, hung Josiah’s rainbow baby quilt, sewed me a table runner, recovered my dining room chairs. She was seriously productive! It was inspiring!<\/p>\n
It’s BLAZING hot and humid here – like 100 with a heat index of 110. And yes, my crazy hubby is still riding in this weather. He’s got an extra water bottle with him, though.<\/p>\n
We’re laundering and packing today for a trip to Chicago this weekend for my cousin’s wedding. We leave tomorrow at 7am with Brian’s parents – all 6 of us in their SUV. Add in Analise’s favorite movie of late – Ice Age – playing over and over in the background, and I’m sure we’ll all be a little crazy by the time we arrive at my Grandma’s on Thursday evening. <\/p>\n
On Friday we’re heading to Chicago to our hotel – a lovely downtown Hampton Inn & Suites<\/a>. Friday is Brian’s birthday (31!), and so we’ll celebrate at The Cheesecake Factory<\/a>, and maybe, just maybe, I can get my kids to bed early so Brian and I can go out and enjoy a little of Chicago in the evening. Maybe the Navy Pier Ferris Wheel<\/a> or the Sears Tower<\/a> to see the sun set and the Chicago Skyline… Saturday, I’m hoping to spend some time with my family and squeeze in a visit\/lunch with a friend and her kids at The Choo Choo Diner<\/a>. Saturday evening we’ve got the fancy wedding, dinner and reception in Downtown Chicago. Sunday we’re looking forward to seeing the Shedd Aquarium<\/a> before driving back to my Grandma’s in Indiana for the night. Then Monday we’ll make the long drive back to Alabama. <\/p>\n Should be fun! We’ll report back when we can!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think I’m so far behind with the blog, I’m afraid I’m not going to get caught up! My mom left last Thursday :(. We miss her. It was so nice to have her here. I sure miss my family after my infrequent visits with them! I didn’t get pictures taken but here’s a short […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-78","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}