{"id":2491,"date":"2009-12-23T08:58:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T13:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:15:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:15:36","slug":"2-more-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/23\/2-more-days\/","title":{"rendered":"2 more days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready??<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not.\u00a0 This year has just flown by.<\/p>\n<p>What a fabulous year though, no?\u00a0 I have an 8 month girly this year.\u00a0 How did she get to be 8 months old?\u00a0 And yet, she is.\u00a0 And when I look back on her newborn pictures, wow.\u00a0 She was small.\u00a0 She was scary.\u00a0 And now she is this round ball of jolly baby, with long curly hair that says &#8220;HEY!&#8221; to everyone that passes by.\u00a0 Amazing.<\/p>\n<p>I have so much wrapping and cleaning to do today.\u00a0 Grandparents are coming tomorrow.\u00a0 Santa is coming tomorrow night&#8230;\u00a0 SO much excitement.<\/p>\n<p>And yet here I sit, sipping my coffee and getting inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/today.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/34525420\/ns\/today-today_books\/\" target=\"_blank\">guys like this<\/a> that I saw on the Today show today.<\/p>\n<p>All the boys in the house are still sleeping, and we even have one extra.\u00a0 It&#8217;s quiet.\u00a0 Well except for Eva getting into trouble here and there.\u00a0 Andy is at work- I have begged him to take off early, at least tomorrow.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>You know what I really want to do?\u00a0 Snuggle into the couch and watch movies or read all day.\u00a0 Speaking of reading, I pulled out a book I read about 10 years ago to read again by Jennifer Crusie called Welcome to Temptation.\u00a0 I love her books because they are usually set somewhere in Ohio (I believe she is a prof at OSU).\u00a0 They are light and easy and fun to read.\u00a0 Perfect.<\/p>\n<p>But since my house won&#8217;t clean itself I need to get off the couch.\u00a0 Here I go&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready?? I&#8217;m not.\u00a0 This year has just flown by. What a fabulous year though, no?\u00a0 I have an 8 month girly this year.\u00a0 How did she get to be 8 months old?\u00a0 And yet, she is.\u00a0 And when I look back on her newborn pictures, wow.\u00a0 She was small.\u00a0 She was scary.\u00a0 And now she is this round ball of jolly baby, with long curly hair that says &#8220;HEY!&#8221; to everyone that passes by.\u00a0 Amazing. I have so much wrapping and cleaning to do today.\u00a0 Grandparents are coming tomorrow.\u00a0 Santa is coming tomorrow night&#8230;\u00a0 SO much excitement. And yet here I sit, sipping my coffee and getting inspired by guys like this that I saw on the Today show today. All the boys in the house are still sleeping, and we even have one extra.\u00a0 It&#8217;s quiet.\u00a0 Well except for Eva getting into trouble here and there.\u00a0 Andy is at work- I have begged him to take off early, at least tomorrow.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see. You know what I really want to do?\u00a0 Snuggle into the couch and watch movies or read all day.\u00a0 Speaking of reading, I pulled out a book I read about 10 years ago to read again by Jennifer Crusie called Welcome to Temptation.\u00a0 I love her books because they are usually set somewhere in Ohio (I believe she is a prof at OSU).\u00a0 They are light and easy and fun to read.\u00a0 Perfect. But since my house won&#8217;t clean itself I need to get off the couch.\u00a0 Here I go&#8230;.<\/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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","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=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21402,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/21402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}