{"id":9301,"date":"2015-05-29T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9301"},"modified":"2016-09-07T13:37:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T18:37:19","slug":"happy-friday-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9301","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0286\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7745\/18025829310_1b598bfc09_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0286\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7745\/18025829310_5580c35e20_k.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0286\" width=\"1360\" height=\"2048\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0288\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7794\/17590944224_2cae9630d9_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0288\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7794\/17590944224_808ca65adc_k.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0288\" width=\"1360\" height=\"2048\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0317\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7779\/17590959014_24d7f2d577_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0317\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7779\/17590959014_c45fca2825_k.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0317\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1463\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the first week of summer firmly tucked under our belts, I can attest to the physical exhaustion I had forgotten about \u2014 the falling-into-bed, loose-limbed feeling of using every bit of energy that it takes to keep up with three very active little boys. We have spent the past week reconnecting in that way that we do on family vacations and holidays, only this time we have the wide expanse of summer ahead of us and I remind myself, <i>pace yourself, don&#8217;t go crazy,\u00a0<\/i>and so we rest. We listen to music in the middle of the day when the sun is at its hottest. We sign up for the library reading program and take our time collecting stacks of books to savor at home on the couch or sprawled across the living room rug. We do nothing, and then we&#8217;re at it again, outside where the breeze carries us.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0309\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8869\/18209905992_54f035acf5_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0309\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8869\/18209905992_9a1fac2c97_k.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0309\" width=\"1360\" height=\"2048\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0315\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8858\/18025725828_2e616ef9c5_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0315\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8858\/18025725828_161faec259_k.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0315\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1463\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0303\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8850\/18214782091_2b8cf755af_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0303\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8850\/18214782091_259a6164e6_k.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0303\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1463\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0329\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7759\/18025854050_6068600866_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0329\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7759\/18025854050_66e0f3e3cb_k.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0329\" width=\"1360\" height=\"2048\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0354\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8878\/17590966324_f07aa14366_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0354\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8878\/17590966324_a0cfe1e397_k.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0354\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1463\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This summer will be a summer of firsts\u2026 Milo&#8217;s first high dive jump, Oliver&#8217;s first shimmy to the top of the swing set (dear lord), Emil&#8217;s first independent swinging (he goes so high all by himself!). What a pleasure it is to watch them grow. It&#8217;s going to be an amazing, memorable summer. I can feel it already.\u00a0<a title=\"DSC_0355\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7749\/18025743238_e5275b1ed6_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0355\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7749\/18025743238_dab6ddbdc7_k.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0355\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1360\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0356\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8851\/18025859810_bfe18397e5_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0356\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8851\/18025859810_dc8b89866e_k.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0356\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1360\" \/><\/a>Have a wonderful weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the first week of summer firmly tucked under our belts, I can attest to the physical exhaustion I had forgotten about \u2014 the falling-into-bed, loose-limbed feeling of using every bit of energy that it takes to keep up with three very active little boys. We have spent the past week reconnecting in that way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9301\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Friday!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,187],"tags":[68,92,123,166],"class_list":["post-9301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-motherhood","tag-jump","tag-milo","tag-summer","tag-swim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301","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=9301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9305,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301\/revisions\/9305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}