{"id":540,"date":"2014-06-16T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/16\/a-good-monday-morning"},"modified":"2014-06-16T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T21:41:00","slug":"a-good-monday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2014\/06\/16\/a-good-monday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Monday Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Start with a little sleep.\u00a0 If Sam sleeps until at least 6:15, that&#8217;s a good morning.\u00a0 If he lets me go back to bed for twenty minutes after I fill his tummy, that&#8217;s even better.<\/p>\n<p>Exercise first thing to get it out of the way.\u00a0 Sam plays on the floor and dances to Ke$ha with me.\u00a0 Meanwhile Jack gets himself up and is watching Digimon in the kitchen.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Breakfast next.\u00a0 Leftover crumpets (yay for Trader Joe&#8217;s!) with fruit and smoothie.\u00a0 A fried egg for me.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/14437190214\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\" title=\"image by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5518\/14437190214_35341f5d1a_z.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/14251661759\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\" title=\"image by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3867\/14251661759_1cb3c72119_z.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>BWAA HAHA HA HA!\u00a0 They had zucchini in their smoothies!\u00a0 I win at mothering!<\/p>\n<p>Shower and style my new do, that I dyed last night.\u00a0 Summer always makes me want to do something new with my hair.\u00a0 This might be the most fetching self photo I&#8217;ve taken in years, despite the broken dresser and unmade bed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/14434961571\" title=\"image by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3839\/14434961571_4a6f786aa7_z.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sam took a nap and we cleaned Jacks&#8217; room.\u00a0 It was remarkable because we did it together without tears shed by either party. <\/p>\n<p>Then off to the usual story time. \u00a0 <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/14251707388\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\" title=\"image by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5594\/14251707388_6ef57be93f_z.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/>\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:left;\">Oh man, can you believe this was published?\u00a0 I ought to look up the designs on ravelry. . . <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:left;\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/14437193084\" title=\"image by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2900\/14437193084_7324f67bb6_z.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Oh wow.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/sources\/men-who-knit-and-the-dogs-who-love-them\/patterns\">There they are.<\/a>\u00a0 Beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>Stopped at MickleDonnull&#8217;s for cold drinks and a bag of ice before having lunch at home.\u00a0 Sam is starting with some leftover hamburger, and Jem thinks Sam is A-OK.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/14251706930\" title=\"image by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2923\/14251706930_c42dd67d6d_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quiet time for both boys &#8211; the best part of the day.\u00a0 Sam woke up shortly though.\u00a0 I have him play while I finished up some work.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MNwryqUv_t8?version=3&#038;rel=0&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span> <br \/>Not pictured: Me having an anxiety attack over Sam coughing and sneezing this morning.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t break this healthy streak yet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start with a little sleep.\u00a0 If Sam sleeps until at least 6:15, that&#8217;s a good morning.\u00a0 If he lets me go back to bed for twenty minutes after I fill his tummy, that&#8217;s even better. Exercise first thing to get it out of the way.\u00a0 Sam plays on the floor and dances to Ke$ha with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}