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Life lately has been very full of children, children who are off school for the summer and alternate between wanting to do everything right now and wanting to do nothing at all.<\/p>\n

Life lately has been full of children who are constantly hungry. \u00a0If they are gone for the day at school they can’t eat all the food in the house. \u00a0They are home. \u00a0They eat it all. \u00a0And they leave the dishes on the counter. \u00a0We are working on that. \u00a0Well, I am. \u00a0They are proving remarkably obtuse.<\/p>\n

Life lately has been full of The Lymond Chronicles. \u00a0Yes, still. \u00a0I am on book four and I have reached the point where I am ignoring everything else including the books I have requested from the library. \u00a0The constant feeding of hungry children is interfering with my reading time. \u00a0The nerve of those kids.<\/p>\n

Life lately has been full of summer food. \u00a0Fruit salad, hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill, too much ice cream, corn on the cob.<\/p>\n

Life lately has involved my, probably doomed, attempt to become a runner. \u00a0I never run. \u00a0I hate running. \u00a0I have suddenly decided to take up running. \u00a0It is very confusing. \u00a0What is even more confusing is that I am finding it strangely satisfying.<\/p>\n

Life lately has involved writing blog posts I am not sure I will ever publish. \u00a0I might, it is just a bit scary. \u00a0The writing was cathartic though.<\/p>\n

Life lately has involved realizing that my daughter is growing up and I am not sure what to do about it. \u00a0Where is my bright, sunny little girl and what am I supposed to do with this changeling who cries at the drop of a hat?<\/p>\n

Life lately has seen me sitting by the pool chatting to my dad while my daughter swims. \u00a0He is retired now so we see a lot more of him. \u00a0It is nice.<\/p>\n

Life lately has meant I have had to continually talk myself out of buying books. \u00a0I keep seeing fantastic recommendations on blogs and I want them but I can’t buy all the books all the time. \u00a0Feel free to convince me otherwise.<\/p>\n

Life lately has seen my son accidentally getting the exact same haircut he had when he was five. \u00a0He isn’t very good at describing what he wants so he ended up with a very short cut. \u00a0He hates it but it makes me smile because every time I look at him I see my little boy instead of the 6’1” giant he has turned into.<\/p>\n

Life lately has meant I made plans with one of my oldest, best friends to meet for lunch. \u00a0We live a ways away from each other and this doesn’t happen very often. \u00a0It makes me happy and I can’t wait.<\/p>\n

What has life lately been like for you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Life lately has been very full of children, children who are off school for the summer and alternate between wanting to do everything right now and wanting to do nothing at all. Life lately has been full of children who are constantly hungry. \u00a0If they are gone for the day at school they can’t eat all the food in the house. \u00a0They are home. \u00a0They eat it all. \u00a0And they leave the dishes on the counter. \u00a0We are working on that. \u00a0Well, I am. \u00a0They are proving remarkably obtuse. Life lately has been full of The Lymond Chronicles. \u00a0Yes, still. \u00a0I am on book four and I have reached the point where I am ignoring everything else including the books I have requested from the library. \u00a0The constant feeding of hungry children is interfering with my reading time. \u00a0The nerve of those kids. Life lately has been full of summer food. \u00a0Fruit salad, hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill, too much ice cream, corn on the cob. Life lately has involved my, probably doomed, attempt to become a runner. \u00a0I never run. \u00a0I hate running. \u00a0I have suddenly decided to take up running. \u00a0It is very confusing. \u00a0What is even more confusing is that I am finding it strangely satisfying. Life lately has involved writing blog posts I am not sure I will ever publish. \u00a0I might, it is just a bit scary. \u00a0The writing was cathartic though. Life lately has involved realizing that my daughter is growing up and I am not sure what to do about it. \u00a0Where is my bright, sunny little girl and what am I supposed to do with this changeling who cries at the drop of a hat? Life lately has seen me sitting by the pool chatting to my dad while my daughter swims. \u00a0He is retired now so we see a lot more of him. \u00a0It is nice. Life lately has meant I have had to continually talk myself out of buying books. \u00a0I keep seeing fantastic recommendations on blogs and I want them but I can’t buy all the books all the time. \u00a0Feel free to convince me otherwise. Life lately has seen my son accidentally getting the exact same haircut he had when he was five. \u00a0He isn’t very good at describing what he wants so he ended up with a very short cut. \u00a0He hates it but it makes me smile because every time I look at him I see my little boy instead of the 6’1” giant he has turned into. Life lately has meant I made plans with one of my oldest, best friends to meet for lunch. \u00a0We live a ways away from each other and this doesn’t happen very often. \u00a0It makes me happy and I can’t wait. What has life lately been like for you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":873,"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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-lately"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}