{"id":14309,"date":"2020-01-03T14:39:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T20:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=14309"},"modified":"2020-01-03T14:40:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T20:40:19","slug":"a-fresh-start-kind-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=14309","title":{"rendered":"A fresh start&#8230; kind of?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is officially the year 2020.\u00a0 I have to admit that year sounds totally futuristic to me.\u00a0 When we were kids we would say, &#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">way<\/span> off in the future (like in 2020!)\u00a0 we&#8217;ll have flying cars, time travel tunnels, and food that appears out of nowhere!&#8221;\u00a0 Ok, not quite like that, but, you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>All of my friends are choosing New Year&#8217;s Resolutions and Goals.\u00a0 It&#8217;s s fresh new year, right?\u00a0 Except that I can&#8217;t help feeling like it&#8217;s just the MIDDLE of the current year.\u00a0 It&#8217;s kind of like the whole debate of when a week starts.\u00a0 Does it go Monday to Monday, or Sunday to Sunday?\u00a0 It&#8217;s really an irrelevant debate when you think about it.\u00a0 Does it really matter which day the week officially starts on?\u00a0 I mean there will still be the same number of days and things accomplished in the end.\u00a0 So, I tend to feel the same about New Year&#8217;s Resolutions and Goals.\u00a0 I mean they&#8217;re fine and everything, but if I start a new plan next month that&#8217;s really the same as starting it now, right?\u00a0 I mean at the end of the year, as long as I&#8217;ve done something with my life then I would say I&#8217;m winning.<\/p>\n<p>Ok.\u00a0 Enough of the rambling.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to try and get myself back into writing more consistently.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not going to set an official goal because it just stresses me out more&#8230; but I do enjoy having these posts to look back on, especially the pictures. \ud83d\ude42 So, here&#8217;s to a new year with more pictures and info on the Friesen life!<\/p>\n<p>The kids were back to school yesterday, so as we waited for the bus Chloe made a <del>snowman<\/del> snowbaby while we waited.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s her first one (I just love the cute eyes) and then below that is her updated one from this morning&#8211; she had to fix it and add new buttons and eyes again this morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=14312\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14312\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14312\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/snowbaby-R.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/snowbaby-R.jpg 768w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/snowbaby-R-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/snowbaby-R-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/snowbaby-R-250x250.jpg 250w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/snowbaby-R-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=14311\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14311\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14311\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/chloe-snowbaby-R.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/chloe-snowbaby-R.jpg 768w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/chloe-snowbaby-R-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is officially the year 2020.\u00a0 I have to admit that year sounds totally futuristic to me.\u00a0 When we were kids we would say, &#8220;&#8230;way off in the future (like in 2020!)\u00a0 we&#8217;ll have flying cars, time travel tunnels, and food that appears out of nowhere!&#8221;\u00a0 Ok, not quite like that, but, you get the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14309"}],"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=14309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14315,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14309\/revisions\/14315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}