I’m usually on the go. My lifestyle is somewhat due to circumstances: With a (almost) full-time job and two kids, there’s going to be a good amount of\u00c2\u00a0driving around, going places, and doing stuff. Part of it, though, is by choice: I do lots of weekend activities with the kids, run a lot of errands (i.e. shop), and do volunteer work\u00c2\u00a0because keeping\u00c2\u00a0busy usually\u00c2\u00a0keeps me happy. And the kids are used to our running around; Avery made me laugh when I picked her up from camp on Friday and she asked me, “What’s our plan for this weekend?” (She knows there’s almost always a plan.)<\/p>\n
With all that said, there’s something pretty nice about the (occasional) quiet day at home. We didn’t plan for Sunday to be a day like that, but it just sort of happened. I worked out in the morning, came home, watched happily as Q organized our bedroom closet, Zoe’s closet,\u00c2\u00a0and the\u00c2\u00a0downstairs closet, and then I joined in to help. Before I knew it, it was the middle of the day, the girls were playing together happily, and any plans we had of\u00c2\u00a0“doing\u00c2\u00a0something”\u00c2\u00a0sort of floated away. Late, the girls and I spent a good chunk of time making\u00c2\u00a0Fairy Petal People<\/a> and I took a nap; the only time I left the house was to grab some bagels and milk and go to the library with the girls in the evening.<\/p>\n Not such a bad day!<\/p>\n -M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m usually on the go. My lifestyle is somewhat due to circumstances: With a (almost) full-time job and two kids, there’s going to be a good amount of\u00c2\u00a0driving around, going places, and doing stuff. Part of it, though, is by choice: I do lots of weekend activities with the kids, run a lot of errands […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-85-two-kids-june-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20238"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20820,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20238\/revisions\/20820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}