{"id":2415,"date":"2010-03-19T09:41:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T13:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2010-03-19T09:41:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T13:41:14","slug":"friday-goodness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=2415","title":{"rendered":"Friday Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. \u00a0FAMILY DINNERS<\/strong> – Since my sister and her husband moved back to town, we have more family closeby than we ever have before, and though it’s amazing to be able to see them whenever we want to, it’s still not enough. \u00a0I’ll always wish we lived closer to more of our family, or better yet, that they lived closer to us. \u00a0I miss family. \u00a0I crave family time. \u00a0And yet for most of the year, it’s just not possible.<\/p>\n

So on weekends when some of our family plans to visit, I’m like a kid at Christmas. \u00a0Tonight, around dinnertime, my parents will roll in from Virginia. \u00a0It won’t be a long visit, but it’ll be a good visit. They always are. \u00a0 And if I sound excited, you should see Jaia. \u00a0Grandparent time for her is the bees knees and she’s already asked me 30 times this morning if Nana and Papoo are going to be here soon. \u00a0Not just yet, my little Smurfling.<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0EMPTY GARAGES <\/strong>–\u00a0When we gutted our kitchen, we ended up with a large amount of ‘waste’ that I wouldn’t let Dan throw out, despite his repeated requests. \u00a0I couldn’t imagine it tossing it in the dump when we could take our ‘perfect but just not our style’ cabinets, countertops, sink, etc. to the local Habitat for Humanity and hope they could get some use out of them.<\/p>\n

That was in October. \u00a0And they sat in our garage since then. \u00a0We have a beautiful double garage that sat so full of crap all winter, that we were forced to park both vehicles outside.<\/p>\n

Our plan this weekend was to take advantage of Papoo being here to fill both cars a couple of times and do drop-offs at the HFH depot and be rid of all the old kitchen remnants for good. \u00a0Dan decided that first he would put them out on the curb and hope someone would take them off our hands instead. \u00a0I laughed. \u00a0There was no way.<\/p>\n

20 minutes after he stacked a mountain of cabinets on our front lawn, the doorbell rang. \u00a0“Are you giving these away?” \u00a0She asked. \u00a0I laughed again. \u00a0Seriously? \u00a0Did that just really happen? \u00a0Dan was right and I was wrong? \u00a0\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

And right he was. \u00a010 minutes later, a trailer pulled up and hauled away each and every one of them. \u00a0Perhaps we should have offered them the countertops and sink too!<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0BAKING WITH JAIA<\/strong> – She loves it because it’s messy. \u00a0I love it because she loves it. \u00a0And today we are attempting a super fun baking project (or so it looks, anyway). \u00a0All the supplies were purchased and are sitting on the shelf until this afternoon. \u00a0If the recipe works and is easy enough for an amateur to attempt (me, not Jaia) I’ll it and the in progress pictures later today. \u00a0I’m excited – for the baked goods, not the mess.<\/p>\n

4. \u00a0FACIALS<\/strong> – Ok, it’s scheduled for Sunday, not Friday, but I’m already dreaming of it. \u00a0P<\/p>\n

Pregnancy has been anything but kind to my skin. \u00a0There were a few weeks over Christmas that I looked more like a teenager in the midst of puberty than an adult in my mid-thirties. \u00a0And though that was the peak, my skin has not improved whatsoever since then. \u00a0I even had one friend admit to me that I look grey.<\/p>\n

Awesome. \u00a0Aren’t you supposed to glow when you are pregnant, and not look half-dead? \u00a0Bring on the facial.<\/p>\n

5. BLUE EYES<\/strong> – There’s nothing like a blue shirt to make my baby’s baby blues pop. \u00a0I swear I could stare at her gorgeous eyes all day – and some days I just do.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. \u00a0FAMILY DINNERS – Since my sister and her husband moved back to town, we have more family closeby than we ever have before, and though it’s amazing to be able to see them whenever we want to, it’s still not enough. \u00a0I’ll always wish we lived closer to more of our family, or better […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[17,26,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}