{"id":11106,"date":"2016-10-18T12:41:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T17:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=11106"},"modified":"2016-10-18T12:41:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T17:41:58","slug":"i-blinked-and-it-was-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=11106","title":{"rendered":"I blinked and it was gone."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started teaching again yesterday. \u00a0Yup. \u00a0My maternity leave is officially over. \u00a0Seriously, I think I blinked and it was gone.<\/p>\n<p>It actually went really well&#8211;except it&#8217;s going to take a few days for the kids to get back into the groove of me teaching again. \u00a0It means they have to get used to playing in a more confined space and need to be quieter. \u00a0Plus Tim has the added difficulty of trying to keep Maddie out of trouble and away from Levi. \u00a0It&#8217;s definitely going to keep him on his toes!<\/p>\n<p>We decided that it would be too much to ask a nanny to come this fall, so Tim is going to come home just a smidgen early for the next couple of weeks. \u00a0It just seemed like to much to ask a teenager to wrangle 4 kids&#8230; one of those being an active toddler and another being an unpredictable one month old!<\/p>\n<p>Last week I didn&#8217;t post anything because I was busy lamenting the fact that it was my last week off. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 \u00a0Yup. \u00a0So instead of being productive, I savored the feeling of being able to just sit around and do nothing. \u00a0Well, kind of. \u00a0I mean we still had to get some things done&#8230; I got a hair cut, \u00a0tried out a new grocery service at WalMart (more on that later), taught the kids how to play Mancala, mowed the lawn, and we even had our family pictures taken. \u00a0But I didn&#8217;t do a good job of keeping up wit h the house&#8211;especially the laundry, so now I&#8217;m dealing with piles and piles of clothes this week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But before I go here&#8217;s a picture of Levi from this past week. \u00a0He&#8217;s officially one month old. Whoo hoo! \u00a0(Notice his shirt says, &#8220;Nap like a BOSS&#8221; hehe!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/one-month-R.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11102\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/one-month-R.jpg\" alt=\"one-month-r\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/one-month-R.jpg 680w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/one-month-R-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started teaching again yesterday. \u00a0Yup. \u00a0My maternity leave is officially over. \u00a0Seriously, I think I blinked and it was gone. It actually went really well&#8211;except it&#8217;s going to take a few days for the kids to get back into the groove of me teaching again. \u00a0It means they have to get used to playing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11106"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11109,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11106\/revisions\/11109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}