{"id":4769,"date":"2011-01-11T13:39:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T18:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=4769"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:12:32","slug":"watching-the-snow-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/11\/watching-the-snow-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching the snow fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big fat beautiful snow flakes are falling and I am snuggled on the couch with a couple of pooches.  <\/p>\n<p>I have been going through my blog lists, deleting blogs I know longer read, cleaning things up.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it is good to have a moment of being selfish- I hit the gym and then came home and got Eva down for a nap and I have been enjoying a quiet house, gazing out the window- it&#8217;s nice.  Even the workers have stayed away today.  <\/p>\n<p>Soon it will be this again<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/5340182489\/img_9354.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_9354\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5086\/5340182489_db19a48bc1_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9354\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I love taking a little time-out.  Because then I am happy when she wakes up from her nap, ready to play again.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/5340178743\/img_9285.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"IMG_9285\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5004\/5340178743_299999e413.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9285\" width=\"358\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And feed the dogs her snacks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/5340854042\/img_9458.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_9458\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5247\/5340854042_03548da9ee_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9458\" width=\"583\" height=\"824\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And next thing you know, two boys come home<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/5340874300\/img_9478.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_9478\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5001\/5340874300_110eb018ed_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9478\" width=\"824\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And they don&#8217;t like to get their pictures taken<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/5340871706\/img_9476.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_9476\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5166\/5340871706_6e3eeb14f3_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9476\" width=\"583\" height=\"824\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>So there are complaints<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/5340270477\/img_9496.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_9496\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5246\/5340270477_0a3b027f29_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9496\" width=\"583\" height=\"824\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And the little guy hides so I don&#8217;t get him at all.<\/p>\n<p>And then next the biggest kid comes home<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/5340876668\/img_9483.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_9483\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5083\/5340876668_2187aabe2f_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9483\" width=\"824\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And the amazing thing is I actually get a picture of him.  Or two.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/5340879094\/img_9489.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_9489\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5284\/5340879094_3a42d5a1c4_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9489\" width=\"583\" height=\"824\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Not an easy task since he is rarely home these days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/5340885316\/img_9511.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_9511\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5286\/5340885316_da52437320_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9511\" width=\"824\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>But the girly is- in fact she is now up from her nap- I hear her kicking the wall, her way of letting me know she wants out NOW!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/5340888020\/img_9513.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_9513\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5242\/5340888020_5fb13d9f4c_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9513\" width=\"824\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Better go get her, don&#8217;t want to make her mad!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big fat beautiful snow flakes are falling and I am snuggled on the couch with a couple of pooches. I have been going through my blog lists, deleting blogs I know longer read, cleaning things up. Sometimes it is good to have a moment of being selfish- I hit the gym and then came home and got Eva down for a nap and I have been enjoying a quiet house, gazing out the window- it&#8217;s nice. Even the workers have stayed away today. Soon it will be this again I love taking a little time-out. Because then I am happy when she wakes up from her nap, ready to play again. And feed the dogs her snacks. And next thing you know, two boys come home And they don&#8217;t like to get their pictures taken So there are complaints And the little guy hides so I don&#8217;t get him at all. And then next the biggest kid comes home And the amazing thing is I actually get a picture of him. Or two. Not an easy task since he is rarely home these days. But the girly is- in fact she is now up from her nap- I hear her kicking the wall, her way of letting me know she wants out NOW! Better go get her, don&#8217;t want to make her mad!!<\/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":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769","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=4769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21077,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769\/revisions\/21077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}