{"id":7995,"date":"2012-05-18T12:34:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T12:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=7995"},"modified":"2020-09-30T17:29:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T21:29:19","slug":"mornings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/mornings\/","title":{"rendered":"Mornings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love my mornings.<\/p>\n<p>I get up and get the boys lunches packed, feed them breakfast, and rush them out the door.<\/p>\n<p>I then usually have anywhere from 15-30 minutes of quiet time before the girly gets up.&nbsp; But when she gets up- this is my fave time of the morning.<\/p>\n<p>I get her milk, I get my laptop.&nbsp; We snuggle on the couch and watch cartoon and I catch up on blogs or do a blog post.&nbsp; The dogs snuggle up with us, we open all the doors and let the cool morning air in.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a nice special time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last night we put Blake on a plane by himself to fly back to Ohio for a weekend with friends.&nbsp; He was SO excited to go that I just didn&#8217;t have it in me to feel sad that he was leaving.&nbsp; Solo.&nbsp; I know he is in great hands and will have a great time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When Eva came up to kiss me goodnight last night she said, &#8220;I miss Blakey!!!&#8221; and put her face in her hands.<\/p>\n<p>I adore technology- as this pic popped up on Facebook the second he got off the plane.&nbsp; Thanks Amy!!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7996\" title=\"576771_4065197791778_1337257564_33704331_1141742722_n\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/576771_4065197791778_1337257564_33704331_1141742722_n-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/576771_4065197791778_1337257564_33704331_1141742722_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/576771_4065197791778_1337257564_33704331_1141742722_n-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/576771_4065197791778_1337257564_33704331_1141742722_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have to say that so far, we have kept this Ohio-North Carolina connection going.&nbsp; Cole chats with his best friend back there almost daily and he&#8217;s coming down in a couple weeks, we are headed to the beach this summer with Austin&#8217;s buddy and family, and Blake is headed back up later this summer for a week of camp.&nbsp; And then I am sure we will have boys down here as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy it&#8217;s Friday, lots of stuff around the house to get done.&nbsp; And look what I just ordered a canvas of- love!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7997\" title=\"IMG_9345copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_9345copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_9345copy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_9345copy-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_9345copy-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Happy weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love my mornings. I get up and get the boys lunches packed, feed them breakfast, and rush them out the door. I then usually have anywhere from 15-30 minutes of quiet time before the girly gets up.&nbsp; But when she gets up- this is my fave time of the morning. I get her milk, I get my laptop.&nbsp; We snuggle on the couch and watch cartoon and I catch up on blogs or do a blog post.&nbsp; The dogs snuggle up with us, we open all the doors and let the cool morning air in.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a nice special time. &nbsp; Last night we put Blake on a plane by himself to fly back to Ohio for a weekend with friends.&nbsp; He was SO excited to go that I just didn&#8217;t have it in me to feel sad that he was leaving.&nbsp; Solo.&nbsp; I know he is in great hands and will have a great time. &nbsp; When Eva came up to kiss me goodnight last night she said, &#8220;I miss Blakey!!!&#8221; and put her face in her hands. I adore technology- as this pic popped up on Facebook the second he got off the plane.&nbsp; Thanks Amy!!! &nbsp; I have to say that so far, we have kept this Ohio-North Carolina connection going.&nbsp; Cole chats with his best friend back there almost daily and he&#8217;s coming down in a couple weeks, we are headed to the beach this summer with Austin&#8217;s buddy and family, and Blake is headed back up later this summer for a week of camp.&nbsp; And then I am sure we will have boys down here as well. &nbsp; I&#8217;m happy it&#8217;s Friday, lots of stuff around the house to get done.&nbsp; And look what I just ordered a canvas of- love! &nbsp; &nbsp; Happy weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8011,"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-7995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_9325copy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995","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=7995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17797,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995\/revisions\/17797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}