{"id":5625,"date":"2012-04-29T09:04:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T16:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=5625"},"modified":"2012-04-29T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T16:16:09","slug":"what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/what-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Richard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s Sunday, and that usually means extra church meetings for Richard and me. But today is special because it’s a rare, unscheduled 5th Sunday.<\/p>\n

What to do?<\/p>\n

I think I’ll take some time and reflect about the week. It was a big week.<\/p>\n

The mornings brought seminary, school, visitors, and a trip to Tucson for some scriptures.<\/p>\n

The afternoons involved more school, violin teaching, a bike ride with friends, grocery shopping, cleaning, playing with friends, a birthday party, and Piano Guild Auditions.<\/p>\n

In the evenings, we had 4 baseball games, 2 practices, 3 ballet classes, one night working with the missionaries, Scout meetings, a Young Women activity, and one night out to dinner to celebrate the end of Piano Guild auditions. We had a youth temple trip all day on Saturday.<\/p>\n

What do all of these activities have in common?<\/p>\n

They produced a lot of laundry, my magnum opus.<\/p>\n

I’ve learned that doing laundry provides a special key to knowledge about my family. As I empty pockets, I discover what is important to my little people. I see who played outside on the grass enough (I don’t hate grass stains. I encourage them.) and who needs to shower more often. I see evidence of baseball feats of skill, ballet workouts, weight training, bicycling (Love those mud stains up the back of the shirts…), and dirt play (which I also encourage). I can’t say that I love doing laundry, but I take pride in doing it and caring for our clothing.<\/p>\n

We wear many clothes and play many roles, and it was a happy family reunion on Friday when our schedules eventually collided and we all met at the restaurant to celebrate a year of piano effort. The kids were dressed up in their Sunday best. Mark’s face was probably a bit sticky from birthday party food, I looked a bit bedraggled, and Richard was clad in his work outfit.<\/p>\n

After a Saturday evening laundry marathon, the piles of laundry are neatly folded in their baskets and they smell fresh. It was a good week and now I get to enjoy this day of rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Sunday, and that usually means extra church meetings for Richard and me. But today is special because it’s a rare, unscheduled 5th Sunday. What to do? I think I’ll take some time and reflect about the week. It was a big week. The mornings brought seminary, school, visitors, and a trip to Tucson for … Continue reading What to do?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventurous-kids","category-family-time","category-life-according-to-angela","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5625"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5664,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions\/5664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}