{"id":226,"date":"2007-05-20T14:14:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T19:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/20\/wrapping-it-up\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:10:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:10:31","slug":"wrapping-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/20\/wrapping-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrapping it up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The boys have officially wrapped up sports for the year.\u00a0 LAX and soccer came to an end this weekend and we are taking the summer off.\u00a0 No baseball for the first time in 4 years.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t wait.\u00a0 This means more relaxed evenings, trips to the pool with dad, more spontaneous trips to the farm.\u00a0 The kind of summer that was the norm when I was a kid.\u00a0 No schedules, no games, just time for play and reading books in the hammock.\u00a0 More time spend together, less time spent at individual activities.\u00a0 As my kids are getting older I am becoming more and more aware of how fast time can turn into a blur of social and sporting events with me trying to just get us from here to there and not taking anything in.\u00a0 I need to get to know my kids again.<\/p>\n<p>So that is the plan.\u00a0 Yes I know they will fight, and I know I will be pulling my hair out half the time but I also know that we have lost touch with how to all be together and just have fun.\u00a0 SO that is the plan, wish me luck!<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures from the last games<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/506313669\/A.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/204\/506313669_cc7ac516f8.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/506313673\/A.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/191\/506313673_3c80285dee.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/506313687\/c.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\" alt=\"c\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/231\/506313687_8c44b0eb21.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/506313693\/b.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\" alt=\"b\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/224\/506313693_1fe4d66829.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boys have officially wrapped up sports for the year.\u00a0 LAX and soccer came to an end this weekend and we are taking the summer off.\u00a0 No baseball for the first time in 4 years.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t wait.\u00a0 This means more relaxed evenings, trips to the pool with dad, more spontaneous trips to the farm.\u00a0 The kind of summer that was the norm when I was a kid.\u00a0 No schedules, no games, just time for play and reading books in the hammock.\u00a0 More time spend together, less time spent at individual activities.\u00a0 As my kids are getting older I am becoming more and more aware of how fast time can turn into a blur of social and sporting events with me trying to just get us from here to there and not taking anything in.\u00a0 I need to get to know my kids again. So that is the plan.\u00a0 Yes I know they will fight, and I know I will be pulling my hair out half the time but I also know that we have lost touch with how to all be together and just have fun.\u00a0 SO that is the plan, wish me luck! Here are some pictures from the last games<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elisalou"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","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=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20949,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/20949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}