{"id":462,"date":"2008-12-01T08:23:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T08:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=462"},"modified":"2008-12-01T08:23:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T08:23:41","slug":"end-of-a-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/12\/01\/end-of-a-long-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"End of a long weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It really was nice to have four days of family, friends, and hanging out with Eric.&nbsp; I suspect those days will be few and far between in the very near future! <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the quick recap:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thanksgiving: My family graciously moved dinner to Columbus so that I could come, but due to Jason&#8217;s not feeling well, we met at my house, instead of Karen&#8217;s.&nbsp; It made for a bit of shuffling of plans, but everything worked out great.&nbsp; And my mom and SIL did almost all the work (including clean-up), so I had a fantastic day!&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>Friday\/Saturday: Eric and I did very little.&nbsp; He was a bit bored.&nbsp; But we managed to spend some QT together.&nbsp; We went to the mall briefly on Friday and to MicroCenter on Saturday.&nbsp; I made cookies on Friday. And I even managed to keep the kitchen clean for the whole weekend.&nbsp; Lovely!<\/li>\n<li>Sunday: Communion at church was very nice.&nbsp; Then dinner and watching a movie with Eric.&nbsp; Then we tidied up the house a bit because my MIL came out for a brief visit with Eric&#8217;s aunt and grandma.&nbsp; They just wanted to see us one more time before the babies come.&nbsp; It was fun to have them, and it kept Eric from boredom!&nbsp; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And now it&#8217;s Monday.&nbsp; Eric has decided that the babies are just not coming until they literally cut them out of me.&nbsp; I&#8217;m still hoping they&#8217;ll decide to come out on their own, but I have my doubts, too.&nbsp; BUT&#8230;at least I have the comfort of knowing that by this time next week, they&#8217;ll be born.&nbsp; WOO! HOO!<\/p>\n<p>Today I must make a meal plan and buy some groceries.&nbsp; Planning for this month will be a little complicated, but may be easier in some ways.&nbsp; After all with mothers coming to help and holidays galore, I bet we&#8217;ll get lots of good food!&nbsp; If nothing else, I&#8217;ll plan this week and then wing the rest of the month.&nbsp; But either way, I still need groceries!<\/p>\n<p>Eric was watching YouTube clips the other day.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not always a big fan of Monty Python, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y&amp;feature=PlayList&amp;p=CDFEA6D52E5CC0EC&amp;index=0\">this sketch<\/a> was truly funny (and clean).&nbsp; It made me laugh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It really was nice to have four days of family, friends, and hanging out with Eric.&nbsp; I suspect those days will be few and far between in the very near future! Here&#8217;s the quick recap: Thanksgiving: My family graciously moved &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/12\/01\/end-of-a-long-weekend\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}