{"id":1758,"date":"2009-08-06T20:06:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T01:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2012-08-15T23:59:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T23:59:05","slug":"headed-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/06\/headed-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Headed Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First off- thanks for the great comments and emails about Eva.  Love hearing from you!!<\/p>\n<p>Last night Cole told Andy that he wanted to go home.  He misses his dogs.  Today we went over to the outlet mall so I could hit Stride Rite to pick him up some new kicks for kindergarten (I could totally do this at home but took advantage of the kid coverage available with Andy around).  We were walking around sweating, I mean it is August in Florida&#8230;<br \/>\nHe looked at me and said, &#8220;I really can&#8217;t wait to get back to Ohio where there is a\/c everywhere.&#8221;  He waved his hands all around.  I told him that Ohio did not have outside a\/c, it is just cooler there.  He said, &#8220;yeah it is weird here, there are only two seasons.  Rain and sunny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing about this is that we are not big a\/c people and rarely have it on at home.  Less than 10 days this whole summer I am guessing.  He is not used to the whole cold inside, blazing hot outside that is life in the south.  We are more the same temp inside and out.  He told me he wants it to snow tomorrow.  Think he is a little hot?<\/p>\n<p>We have spent a lot of time in the pool<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3795391296\/img_2699.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_2699\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3439\/3795391296_3238b83f1f_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2699\" width=\"924\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>So we are headed home tomorrow.  Well actually to the farm. <\/p>\n<p>Not all of us are happy to leave.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3794571043\/img_2739.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_2739\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3597\/3794571043_d3b5706d59_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2739\" width=\"924\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>the beach is such a great place.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3795391824\/img_2738.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"IMG_2738\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3484\/3795391824_4418f14c7d.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2738\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>see those braces?  they are about to come off!<\/p>\n<p>Ok but back to the beach- I will miss Seaside<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3795402988\/img_6951.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_6951\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2587\/3795402988_7f28139487_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6951\" width=\"924\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3794583937\/img_6952.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_6952\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3497\/3794583937_4e06e0895d_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6952\" width=\"924\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3794585799\/img_6958.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_6958\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2540\/3794585799_8fc70a6d53_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6958\" width=\"924\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3794587373\/img_6959.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_6959\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2469\/3794587373_0a8fe16d7c_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6959\" width=\"924\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3795411664\/img_6960.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_6960\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2667\/3795411664_c017246d38_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6960\" width=\"924\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And I will miss our routine- beach-break-pool-dinner-beach-pool-bed<\/p>\n<p>But I am excited to welcome fall.  Fall in Ohio is wonderful.  Football season, hockey season, back to school&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>All good stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off- thanks for the great comments and emails about Eva. Love hearing from you!! Last night Cole told Andy that he wanted to go home. He misses his dogs. Today we went over to the outlet mall so I could hit Stride Rite to pick him up some new kicks for kindergarten (I could totally do this at home but took advantage of the kid coverage available with Andy around). We were walking around sweating, I mean it is August in Florida&#8230; He looked at me and said, &#8220;I really can&#8217;t wait to get back to Ohio where there is a\/c everywhere.&#8221; He waved his hands all around. I told him that Ohio did not have outside a\/c, it is just cooler there. He said, &#8220;yeah it is weird here, there are only two seasons. Rain and sunny.&#8221; The funny thing about this is that we are not big a\/c people and rarely have it on at home. Less than 10 days this whole summer I am guessing. He is not used to the whole cold inside, blazing hot outside that is life in the south. We are more the same temp inside and out. He told me he wants it to snow tomorrow. Think he is a little hot? We have spent a lot of time in the pool So we are headed home tomorrow. Well actually to the farm. Not all of us are happy to leave. the beach is such a great place. see those braces? they are about to come off! Ok but back to the beach- I will miss Seaside And I will miss our routine- beach-break-pool-dinner-beach-pool-bed But I am excited to welcome fall. Fall in Ohio is wonderful. Football season, hockey season, back to school&#8230;. All good stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,20],"tags":[588],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach","category-travel","tag-seaside-florida"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8500,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/8500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}