{"id":6243,"date":"2011-08-23T10:14:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T15:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=6243"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:08:15","slug":"new-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/23\/new-start\/","title":{"rendered":"New start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go- starting a new school year.  Always bittersweet.  A little older, a little more disbelief that they are growing up so fast, and a big dose of pride of who they are becoming.<\/p>\n<p>Only Austin goes all day today.  The other two go for a couple hours, and I am supposed to go with them.  Well me and Miss Sassy.  Should be a good time.  I am sure she will be <del datetime=\"2011-08-23T14:55:46+00:00\">crazy<\/del> perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing that we are starting a new year, it has made me want to get back on board with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckyhiggins.com\/products\/\">project life<\/a>.  I have been tossing things in a bag all along, and of course taking pictures.  But I have realized that (after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/aliedwards.com\/2011\/07\/week-in-the-life-2011-monday-words-photos-observations.html#more-13574http:\/\/\">Ali&#8217;s blog<\/a> for the first time in months) that I want to capture more day to day- more <em>story<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures are great, but they only say so much.  So&#8230;..jumping back on board to record more about this crazy life.<\/p>\n<p>iPhone pics today<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/6064152102\/2-seconds-after-laying-his-head-down-he-is-out-words-cannot-describe-how-much-i-love-this-kid.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Original\" title=\"2 seconds after laying his head down he is out. Words cannot describe how much I love this kid\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6195\/6064152102_75753af1f9_o.jpg\" alt=\"2 seconds after laying his head down he is out. Words cannot describe how much I love this kid\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>after his first football practice and a day at zoombezi he fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/6056758699\/poke.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Original\" title=\"Poke\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6198\/6056758699_97fa46b635_o.jpg\" alt=\"Poke\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>poke<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/6053726857\/bath-time.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Original\" title=\"Bath time\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6193\/6053726857_fa483860b2_o.jpg\" alt=\"Bath time\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>bath time<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/6039960747\/girls-doing-hair.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Original\" title=\"Girls doing hair\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6184\/6039960747_4c81683173_o.jpg\" alt=\"Girls doing hair\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>girls doing hair<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/6038614553\/just-came-home-and-found-two-wiped-out-runners-on-the-back-deck.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Original\" title=\"Just came home and found two wiped out runners on the back deck\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6190\/6038614553_eab5e64b7c_o.jpg\" alt=\"Just came home and found two wiped out runners on the back deck\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Austin after running 5 miles<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/6032879697\/front-porch.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Original\" title=\"Front porch\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6073\/6032879697_070641a7e2_o.jpg\" alt=\"Front porch\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>front porch<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for today- off to enjoy the first day of school<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go- starting a new school year. Always bittersweet. A little older, a little more disbelief that they are growing up so fast, and a big dose of pride of who they are becoming. Only Austin goes all day today. The other two go for a couple hours, and I am supposed to go with them. Well me and Miss Sassy. Should be a good time. I am sure she will be crazy perfect. Seeing that we are starting a new year, it has made me want to get back on board with my project life. I have been tossing things in a bag all along, and of course taking pictures. But I have realized that (after reading Ali&#8217;s blog for the first time in months) that I want to capture more day to day- more story. Pictures are great, but they only say so much. So&#8230;..jumping back on board to record more about this crazy life. iPhone pics today after his first football practice and a day at zoombezi he fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow poke bath time girls doing hair Austin after running 5 miles front porch That&#8217;s it for today- off to enjoy the first day of school<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6238,"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-6243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5704copy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243","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=6243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18966,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243\/revisions\/18966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}