{"id":2293,"date":"2014-06-30T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/06\/30\/when-a-week-or-more-whizzes-by\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:35:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:35:11","slug":"when-a-week-or-more-whizzes-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/06\/30\/when-a-week-or-more-whizzes-by\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN A WEEK OR MORE WHIZZES BY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Good things for remembering<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The sounds a baby makes when he&#8217;s content<\/li>\n<li>Walking and talking with my husband during the long hospital wait<\/li>\n<li>A woozy Martin smiling from the recovery room bed<\/li>\n<li>Simone&#8217;s Maultaschen, yum yum!<\/li>\n<li>The green and blue of leaves and water<\/li>\n<li>The way Sammy runs: flat-out<\/li>\n<li>Reading <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blue-Hat-Green-Boynton-Board\/dp\/0671493205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blue Hat Green Hat<\/a><\/i> to Sammy and laughing like loons<\/li>\n<li>Spotify quizzes with John and Anders and the kids<\/li>\n<li>Simone&#8217;s victory dance when Germany won the group game against the USA in the World Cup<\/li>\n<li>Not needing the fans we brought and being able to have the bedroom window cracked at night&#8230;mmmm cool night air<\/li>\n<li>Karin playing soccer with, and Martin reading Pettsson &#038; Findus to, Sammy<\/li>\n<li>Making it halfway around <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bl%C3%A5_Jungfrun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bl\u00e5 Jungfrun<\/a><\/li>\n<li>John offering to see me safely back to the boat and being super patient with me on the way<\/li>\n<li>Martin making it all the way to the TOP of Bl\u00e5 Jungfrun despite his broken arm<\/li>\n<li>Karin and John bonding<\/li>\n<li>Watching baby Jake figure out how to sit up from a prone position and ALMOST figure out crawling<\/li>\n<li>Successful arm surgery for Martin even if it means PINS STICKING OUT OF HIS ARM for 5 weeks<\/li>\n<li>A long lovely walk through the peninsula and woods<\/li>\n<li>Visiting the D\u00f6darhultarn museum and seeing some great wood carvings with Anders<\/li>\n<li>Playing Famous People in the car on the way home and Martin trying to come up with a third colonel after we guessed his first two: Colonel Sanders and Colonel Mustard<\/li>\n<li>Coming home to a tree FULL of cherries!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Good things for forgetting<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12 hours of waiting at the hospital<\/li>\n<li>Standing by Martin&#8217;s side at the operating table as they put him under<\/li>\n<li>The hilariously bad artwork in our cottage<\/li>\n<li>Too much thinking about work<\/li>\n<li>Waking up at 5 a.m. the first day of work after vacation<\/li>\n<li>Nearly not making it back to the bathroom after a long walk<\/li>\n<li>Vertigo on the steep &#038; slippery rock faces of Bl\u00e5 Jungfrun<\/li>\n<li>Swollen feet<\/li>\n<li>Seasickness on the boat back from the island<\/li>\n<li>Bringing 5 books with me and only managing to read what had to be the least satisfying one<\/li>\n<li>Martin&#8217;s first hipster haircut: mah baby is gone! *sob*<\/li>\n<li>The fact that I have to work now for 3 more weeks before REAL vacation starts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scontent-a.cdninstagram.com\/hphotos-xpa1\/t51.2885-15\/925022_473627239440068_1196379588_n.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=500 title=\"\"  align=\"Middle\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good things for remembering The sounds a baby makes when he&#8217;s content Walking and talking with my husband during the long hospital wait A woozy Martin smiling from the recovery room bed Simone&#8217;s Maultaschen, yum yum! The green and blue of leaves and water The way Sammy runs: flat-out Reading Blue Hat Green Hat to Sammy and laughing like loons Spotify quizzes with John and Anders and the kids Simone&#8217;s victory dance when Germany won the group game against the USA in the World Cup Not needing the fans we brought and being able to have the bedroom window cracked&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,14,3],"class_list":["post-2293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-famdamily","tag-goodthings","tag-wonderfulworld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3948,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions\/3948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}