{"id":8524,"date":"2014-10-07T14:14:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T19:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=8524"},"modified":"2014-10-07T14:14:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T19:14:24","slug":"the-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=8524","title":{"rendered":"The Quiet."},"content":{"rendered":"

I was struck the moment that we stepped out of Jen’s car on Saturday how unbelievably quiet it was at Aunt Peggy’s house in South Dakota.\u00a0 I’ve been to the country before, but it’s been a couple of years since I’ve been out to their farm.\u00a0 And I must say, after living in the suburbs with constant noise, it took be aback at first.\u00a0 But in a good way.<\/p>\n

It was so peaceful.<\/p>\n

No hum of buses, or traffic on 169.\u00a0 No airplane or jets soaring overhead.\u00a0 No lawn mowers buzzing in the distance.\u00a0 No kids screaming and yelling at the playground down the street.\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 Just silence.<\/p>\n

This whole situation was amplified during my morning walk yesterday.\u00a0 I walk with Josiah just after Chloe gets on the bus (so about 8:00).\u00a0 It was\u00a0so loud<\/span>.\u00a0 Buses everywhere, cars zooming, kids walking to school, traffic honking, radios playing out windows.\u00a0 But I have become so used to those noises in my everyday life that not until I was out in South Dakota did I notice them yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 I found it interesting.\u00a0 I don’t mind the hubbub of sounds around here, but I will say it was nice to enjoy some quiet too.<\/p>\n

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On the farm there were kittens and chickens and 2 dogs.\u00a0 Let me tell you, Chloe and Josiah really<\/span> loved those animals.\u00a0 Josiah in particular just wanted to be by those kittens holding them and petting them and following them and just sitting by them.\u00a0 It was pretty much the cutest thing ever.<\/p>\n

Actually, I thought the kittens were pretty adorable too and spent time holding them… as did most of the kids… and even Jen…<\/p>\n

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I’m bummed I got him mid-blink on this one… it would have been perfect.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The kittens didn’t love him as much as he loved them… \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/div>\n

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I was struck the moment that we stepped out of Jen’s car on Saturday how unbelievably quiet it was at Aunt Peggy’s house in South Dakota.\u00a0 I’ve been to the country before, but it’s been a couple of years since I’ve been out to their farm.\u00a0 And I must say, after living in the suburbs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524"}],"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=8524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8529,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524\/revisions\/8529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}