{"id":3330,"date":"2011-06-05T22:31:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T03:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2011-06-05T22:31:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T03:31:03","slug":"and-now-i-can-relax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=3330","title":{"rendered":"And NOW I can relax.  :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today went great.\u00a0 Another recital day done!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Spring-recital-2011-2oclock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3331\" title=\"Spring recital 2011 2oclock\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Spring-recital-2011-2oclock-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Spring-recital-2011-2oclock-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Spring-recital-2011-2oclock-1024x731.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/spring-recital-2011-4oclock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3332\" title=\"spring recital 2011 4oclock\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/spring-recital-2011-4oclock-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/spring-recital-2011-4oclock-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/spring-recital-2011-4oclock-1024x731.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t realize how much I was stressing about having the baby early (I know this would have been <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">really<\/span> early for me, but you just never know!) and having to figure out what to do about the recital.\u00a0 Tim and I talked earlier this week and we had discussed him having to pull off the recital by himself if I were to have had the baby earlier in the week.\u00a0 It would have been just too close to call off the recital completely&#8211;especially with all the hard work everyone had put in.\u00a0 But thankfully we didn&#8217;t have to figure any of that out, since I obviously didn&#8217;t have the baby.\u00a0 (whew!)<\/p>\n<p>And today went really smoothly.\u00a0 It&#8217;s so much fun to have more advanced students than beginners.\u00a0 For so many years I&#8217;ve had an overwhelming number of lower level students and not many advanced, so it&#8217;s fun to watch it slowly progress to the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>After the recital the Bakers, Jen and Pasty all helped clean up and then we came back here for pizza and family fun.\u00a0 The kids splashed around in the kiddie pool and we watched some t.v. and sat around chatting.\u00a0 It was nice to just relax for a while.<\/p>\n<p>The only big bummer for the day was that I forgot to take our &#8220;recital&#8221; picture of Chloe and I at the piano this year.\u00a0 I&#8217;m really sad we forgot.\u00a0 I might get us dolled up again and walk down to the church tomorrow and take a picture with my camera and remote just to have one from this year&#8230;. We&#8217;ll see&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I do want to throw out a huge THANK YOU to Jen who volunteered to come over and watch Chloe on Saturday so I could get all my recital stuff done.\u00a0 It was amazing.\u00a0 I was able to run all my errands and work on programs and certificates all without Chloe asking her endless questions.\u00a0 It would have been a terribly stressful weekend without Jen!\u00a0 Thank you Jen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today went great.\u00a0 Another recital day done! I didn&#8217;t realize how much I was stressing about having the baby early (I know this would have been really early for me, but you just never know!) and having to figure out what to do about the recital.\u00a0 Tim and I talked earlier this week and we [&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\/3330"}],"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=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3335,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions\/3335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}