{"id":458,"date":"2007-09-25T09:25:04","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T14:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=458"},"modified":"2007-09-25T09:25:04","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T14:25:04","slug":"What to do with myself?","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"What to do with myself?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of those rare mornings when I don&#8217;t have anything planned.&nbsp; Brian just took Analise to preschool, and I&#8217;ve got the whole morning free&#8230; well, free with Josiah.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve got so many little things I want to do, I&#8217;m not sure where to start!&nbsp; Maybe a shower? \ud83d\ude42&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>We had a quiet weekend around here, which was lovely.&nbsp; Brian watched the sweeties for a few hours on both Saturday and Sunday, so I was able to get out and just be by myself.&nbsp; I actually just sat at Panera with a lovely coffee drink and my laptop on Saturday.&nbsp; On Sunday I went to a dance\/costume consignment sale and found a few little dance things for Analise to play in.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the kids and I met Analise&#8217;s friend Jacob and his mom at the zoo.&nbsp; It was fun walking around leisurely and talking, splashing in the water area, having lunch together.&nbsp; Then we had friends over for dinner, and I made this amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/find.myrecipes.com\/recipes\/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&amp;recipe_id=1578359\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Living Chicken &#8216;n Spinach Pasta<\/a> recipe.&nbsp; (It&#8217;s one of my top 3 favorite recipes now.&nbsp; I think I&#8217;ve made 4 pans of it in the last 6 weeks!)&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>So today is quiet, and hopefully I can find a nice balance between getting things done, playing with Josiah, and doing something for myself.&nbsp; All this after a shower and a little reading in my Beth Moore devotional, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jesus-Days-Only-Personal-Reflections\/dp\/0805446451\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/104-0447840-1911123?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1190730254&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Jesus: 90 Days with the One and Only<\/a>.&nbsp; I&#8217;m off!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of those rare mornings when I don&#8217;t have anything planned.&nbsp; Brian just took Analise to preschool, and I&#8217;ve got the whole morning free&#8230; well, free with Josiah.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve got so many little things I want to do, I&#8217;m not sure where to start!&nbsp; Maybe a shower? \ud83d\ude42&nbsp; We had a quiet weekend around [&hellip;]<\/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-458","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-7o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","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=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}