{"id":21564,"date":"2015-01-04T11:41:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T19:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=21564"},"modified":"2015-01-04T11:41:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T19:41:48","slug":"reflections-on-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=21564","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on a break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last two weeks, the girls and I have been on break. Unlike in years past, we didn&#8217;t travel anywhere major (Monterey is only a two-hour trip) and we didn&#8217;t make any major plans. Aside from my personal goal of working out a lot and decluttering our house and garage (check and check!), I wanted us all to just relax, to be spontaneous in what we decided to do, and to, y&#8217;know, just <em>be<\/em>. And so that&#8217;s what happened! (Avery was sick from Saturday to Thursday of last week, so we would have had to stay inside even if we didn&#8217;t want to. It was a bummer she didn&#8217;t feel well, but at least the timing wasn&#8217;t terrible!)<\/p>\n<p>When I look back at this vacation I&#8217;ll remember things like playing Frozen Monopoly (thank you, Aunt Wendy!) with Avery and Mastermind with Zoe, setting up a Lego Friends city with both girls, and running lots of little errands &#8211; and yes, going shopping &#8211; with the family. (Avery said her one wish for the break was to go to the &#8220;place that gives you free stuff,&#8221; so we took her to Costco one morning.) I&#8217;ll also try to remember the joy of slowing down, of not rushing to be out of the house by 8 or 9 every morning, and by not making plans and seeing where the day takes you. When we asked the girls what they wanted to do yesterday, Zoe responded, &#8220;I just want to have a lazy day and stay home.&#8221; It&#8217;s taken me awhile, but I&#8217;m seeing the benefit of that!<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last two weeks, the girls and I have been on break. Unlike in years past, we didn&#8217;t travel anywhere major (Monterey is only a two-hour trip) and we didn&#8217;t make any major plans. Aside from my personal goal of working out a lot and decluttering our house and garage (check and check!), I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-87-two-kids-jan-march-15"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21564","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=21564"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21568,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21564\/revisions\/21568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}