{"id":8324,"date":"2014-11-10T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2016-09-07T19:31:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T00:31:05","slug":"weekend-shenanigans-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=8324","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DSC_0076\"<\/a>\"DSC_0120\"<\/a>\"DSC_0080\"<\/a>\"DSC_0137\"<\/a>It was a beautiful fall weekend — half of it spent without Andrew, who has been traveling a lot lately but is luckily staying put for a while. Friday morning my friend Elisha and I messed around with staging food and photographing it for a class she is taking. It was so much fun and felt like playing with a friend while our kids were in school. I think the pictures turned out really well, though there was so much I found myself wanting to do and not knowing how to do it. It may be time soon for me to take a photography class… but I keep putting it off as my writing has taken over my creative side lately and I honestly just don’t have the time. I do love having a creative outlet, through this blog mainly, and am so grateful for what doors it has opened up for me.<\/p>\n

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Friday night and Saturday were a struggle. The kids and I just couldn’t seem to find our rhythm and I lost count of how many physical fights I had to break up between them, separating them to different rooms and taking frequent breaks outside for fresh air and a hopeful reset. The fresh air helped, but as soon as we were back inside again, all hell broke loose. I was at my wit’s end and in tears, especially with Oliver, who was all button-pusher and no reasoning with. It is just like that sometimes.<\/p>\n

When Andrew returned I was sure the kids would snap out of it, but alas, Sunday was a bit rough too. I guess I was just the slightest bit relieved that it wasn’t all me, ha!<\/p>\n

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We picked the last of the November strawberries, which were surely the sweetest of the whole season with the knowledge that they are gone, gone until next spring and summer. We are expecting freezing temperatures this week for several days in a row and there is no chance for them!<\/p>\n

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Emil picked up the camera and after I helped him turn it on, he took the above photo! Not bad, right?<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sunday afternoon was a relief. We met up with our neighbors and friends for a big last pick-up soccer game before the weather turns frigid. The sunset was beautiful (at 5:30) and it all ended up okay in the end. Sigh. We’ll find our groove eventually!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a beautiful fall weekend — half of it spent without Andrew, who has been traveling a lot lately but is luckily staying put for a while. Friday morning my friend Elisha and I messed around with staging food and photographing it for a class she is taking. It was so much fun and … Continue reading “Weekend Shenanigans”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,187],"tags":[174,93,171],"class_list":["post-8324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-motherhood","tag-favorite-places","tag-oliver","tag-yummy-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8324"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8330,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions\/8330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}