{"id":3052,"date":"2010-03-26T07:03:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T12:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:14:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:14:47","slug":"slow-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/slow-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few months I have been thinking a lot about a Slow Home.\u00a0 I used to have one, but then my kids got older and more involved in sports, music, friends.<\/p>\n<p>I crave a more laid-back lifestyle.\u00a0 And it was part of the reason I pulled my kids out of school last month.\u00a0 To reconnect and regroup.\u00a0 Because they are quickly growing, and I am quickly turning into a mom that just runs here and there and doesn&#8217;t have time to actually connect.<\/p>\n<p>When we were in Austin I read about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Making-Family-Home-Shannon-Honeybloom\/dp\/0880107022\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1256064783&#038;sr=8-1\">this book<\/a> in a local magazine, and I have been meaning to order it ever since.\u00a0 I think i will do it right now.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video from her blog<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7778150&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/7778150\">Making a Family Home<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/skiphunt\">Skip Hunt<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few months I have been thinking a lot about a Slow Home.\u00a0 I used to have one, but then my kids got older and more involved in sports, music, friends. I crave a more laid-back lifestyle.\u00a0 And it was part of the reason I pulled my kids out of school last month.\u00a0 To reconnect and regroup.\u00a0 Because they are quickly growing, and I am quickly turning into a mom that just runs here and there and doesn&#8217;t have time to actually connect. When we were in Austin I read about this book in a local magazine, and I have been meaning to order it ever since.\u00a0 I think i will do it right now. Here is a video from her blog Making a Family Home from Skip Hunt on Vimeo.<\/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":[591,605],"class_list":["post-3052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elisalou","tag-shannon-honeybloom","tag-slow-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052","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=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21307,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions\/21307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}