{"id":10267,"date":"2011-06-07T08:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/07\/as-the-days-go-on"},"modified":"2011-06-07T08:26:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T13:26:00","slug":"as-the-days-go-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2011\/06\/07\/as-the-days-go-on\/","title":{"rendered":"As the days go on&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this is what happens when you are sick: the world goes on and you are on the catch-up. After a week and a half of <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">oogies<\/span>, I think our brood is finally on the rebound. <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Abi<\/span> missed the bugs &#8211; thank goodness, for that kid whined enough busting in her two top teeth to drive anyone to the edge. Good thing I was drugged numb (kidding). But poor Matt received sick wrath &#8211; FOR ONE DAY- while Rachael and I are still on the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">up rise<\/span> from our suffering woes (cue the violins). If I could just <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">vacuum<\/span> suction out all the mucus (viewer rating tanks). ANYWAY.<\/p>\n<p>So life is happening all around us. It feels like years since we&#8217;ve been outside and in the meantime some kind of huge deep red flower popped up in our backyard <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">planter box<\/span>. <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">Perty<\/span> cool, people. <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_6\">Perty<\/span> cool.<\/p>\n<p>Dakota has found herself a new home &#8211; it was her or <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_7\">Abi<\/span> so alas, we opted to keep our daughter over the dog. But Dakota is and will continue to be well missed for a while yet. And, as with any family pet whom you have invested in and incorporated into your world, our love goes with her. Saturday was a sad drive to Indianapolis, but it is good to know that while the breed-specific shelter finds her a home her life is not in threat.<\/p>\n<p>So with that change has come some <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_8\">decluttering<\/span> (or simplifying, eh <a href=\"http:\/\/simplifythislife.blogspot.com\/search?updated-min=2011-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&amp;updated-max=2012-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&amp;max-results=6\">Jess<\/a>) of our home as well. I&#8217;ve put up a clothes line in the backyard in efforts to thoroughly brand myself a &#8220;woman of another decade&#8221;. No really, I just think drying blankets and sheets, etc on the line as well as those &#8220;we can&#8217;t seem to get the stain out of them&#8221; whites is beneficial.<\/p>\n<p>Only in picking up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Material-World-Global-Family-Portrait\/dp\/0871564300\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1307454445&amp;sr=8-1\">Material World<\/a> from the library and thumbing through it a bit yesterday I&#8217;ve come to realize that clothes lines are more common than we &#8220;stuck in America&#8217;s movement&#8221; people may have imagined. Talk about a book to readjust your worldview, people. The book goes about the globe and selects homes around the world to do a <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_9\">homestudy<\/span> upon. They take a picture of all the material goods a family <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_10\">possesses<\/span> after moving them to the front lawn or such location near their home. Then the book compares similar needs, like toilets, food, etc cross-culturally. Amazing to think of how little some can live on compared to how much we may convince ourselves that we need.<\/p>\n<p>And thus, we&#8217;ve also been thinking and praying and hoping and talking about our efforts toward adoption. Matt and I enjoyed date night conversation walking kidless around the mall (loathe summer heat). It&#8217;s so wonderful to get us-time to talk about what all we have been praying about and hoping regarding our family&#8217;s future. I HIGHLY recommend date nights with your husband\/wife. <span style=\"color:#6600cc;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;\">Crucial<\/span> in any marriage to be on the same page.<\/p>\n<p>So alas, that has been our life lately. And next week we&#8217;ll celebrate <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_12\">Abi&#8217;s<\/span> first birthday (falls over dead). How quickly the time flies!<\/p>\n<p>But alas, I must get going, it has been requested that I come read to the children while they soak the bathmat with bath time bliss.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you are fairing well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this is what happens when you are sick: the world goes on and you are on the catch-up. After a week and a half of oogies, I think our brood is finally on the rebound. 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