{"id":326,"date":"2008-10-11T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tessa.datdec.com\/wordpress\/?p=326"},"modified":"2008-10-11T23:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T23:31:00","slug":"apparently-ive-been-slacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"Apparently I&#8217;ve been slacking&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So sorry for the nearly a week delay!! I<br \/>\n    hope you&#8217;re all doing ok out there in reader land! :) We&#8217;ve<br \/>\n    been busy here and apparently I&#8217;ve neglected you. We had Alan&#8217;s<br \/>\n    parents up for a visit last weekend (they brought us new-to-us<br \/>\n    dining room chairs and a computer desk!), then dinner with<br \/>\n    Grandpa and Grandma the next day. Lots of Pampered Chef stuff<br \/>\n    going on. I signed my 3rd recruit!! Go me! :) Michelle and I<br \/>\n    took the kids apple picking on a day that was supposed to be<br \/>\n    sunny and beautiful. Turns out it was the first frosty morning,<br \/>\n    but we had fun anyway. It was a short trip, but fun :)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try\n    {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_xGc8ytldDks\/SPFt7zOSs-I\/AAAAAAAAEBw\/yNz17inusmA\/s1600-h\/IMG_3202.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align:\n    center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_xGc8ytldDks\/SPFt7zOSs-I\/AAAAAAAAEBw\/yNz17inusmA\/s400\/IMG_3202.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256103114247943138\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Caitlin<br \/>\n    and Eve. I was debating about getting Eve a more girly winter<br \/>\n    wardrobe, but then Michelle offered to let me borrow a very<br \/>\n    nice girlish winter coat for her. Yay! So here she is looking<br \/>\n    like a boy, but soon you&#8217;ll see a more girly look on the girl<br \/>\n    :)<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try\n    {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_xGc8ytldDks\/SPFt8HDSoeI\/AAAAAAAAEB4\/8CnTBwDtLXs\/s1600-h\/IMG_3210.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align:\n    center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_xGc8ytldDks\/SPFt8HDSoeI\/AAAAAAAAEB4\/8CnTBwDtLXs\/s400\/IMG_3210.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256103119570510306\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Lex,<br \/>\n    playing tug-o-war with the local apple stand puppy. He&#8217;s an<br \/>\n    adorable dog! Lex is sporting his new jacket from our neighbor.<br \/>\n    I&#8217;m still undecided if I like it, but Lex has taken a liking to<br \/>\n    it so I think my opinion probably doesn&#8217;t matter<br \/>\n    anyway.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Got<br \/>\n    back from dinner tonight with our friends Mike &#038; Andi<br \/>\n    and their boys. The evening ended around 7:00pm when Lex walked<br \/>\n    in to the kitchen, almost in tears, and said &#8220;mommy, we need to<br \/>\n    go home now.&#8221; On the way home he explained that he was crying<br \/>\n    because he was angry at me. I had said about 10 minutes earlier<br \/>\n    that we had to get going soon, so apparently he was angry at me<br \/>\n    because I started talking again and we didn&#8217;t leave right away.<br \/>\n    I suggested perhaps his tiredness and bad dinner (chips!) also<br \/>\n    had something to do with his feelings. He said, &#8220;yes, the pizza<br \/>\n    made me angry.&#8221; Sarcasm? We had pizza for dinner (Caprese Pizza<br \/>\n    from Pampered Chef, soo yummy!) and I had him take one bite to<br \/>\n    taste it. I guess it was an angry bite! Crazy kid. Anyway, it&#8217;s<br \/>\n    way too late now and I really should be sleeping. I&#8217;m training<br \/>\n    my new recruit tomorrow and immediately afterwards several<br \/>\n    other consultants will be joining us for a a Pampered Chef<br \/>\n    movie night to watch a fun new training DVD. Will be fun, but<br \/>\n    busy. Hope this will tide you all over for a few more days.<br \/>\n    I&#8217;ll try to be a better blogger ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So sorry for the nearly a week delay!! I hope you&#8217;re all doing ok out there in reader land! :) We&#8217;ve been busy here and apparently I&#8217;ve neglected you. 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