{"id":688,"date":"2008-05-27T17:14:42","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T02:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/?p=688"},"modified":"2008-05-27T17:14:42","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T02:14:42","slug":"the-end-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/2008\/05\/27\/the-end-already\/","title":{"rendered":"The End, Already?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is crazy to think how quickly 9 months can pass. There were moments this past school year when I didn&#8217;t think summer vacation would ever get here&#8230; and I am reminded once again that wishing time away is such a foolish waste. Inevitably the end of whatever it is comes along, and I become lost in some new distraction. What a true gift it would be to understand and appreciate each moment as it comes along.<\/p>\n<p>I had a fantastic weekend. Dad and Arlene stayed with us Friday night before heading to the cities early on Saturday. We went for a nice bike ride, and then I brought them over to Forestview to see my classroom. Sara stoppped over to visit and play a little Wii, and not long later it was time for bed.<\/p>\n<p>Bill flew out of Brainerd to Tacoma on Saturday for Katie&#8217;s graduation. So, I had the apartment to myself for a couple of nights. The wonderfully bright sun woke me up by 7:00 each morning, so I had plenty of hours to occupy. It wasn&#8217;t hard, though, to fill them with a little shopping, a couple of movies on the couch, and lots of PACKING! Our apartment looks exactly the same, but I feel like I did put a pretty good dent in the moving process. We&#8217;re getting pretty good at it. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Today was a typical first day of the last week of school&#8230; The kids are squirrelly, and frankly, so am I.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight Sara made Bill and I a delicious dinner complete with a girlie drink for she and I.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2008\/05\/sitc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-686\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2008\/05\/sitc-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We then grabbed a little ice cream at the D.Q. Bill entertained us with stories (really, with the two of them, there&#8217;s never a story shortage!), but I couldn&#8217;t help to be a bit distracted by the trees behind him. Somehow Spring got here &#8211; it&#8217;s so green and gorgeous out. I&#8217;m loving it!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2008\/05\/bill-dq.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-687\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/files\/2008\/05\/bill-dq-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Good luck to those finishing up the school year, starting new jobs, and just moving on to the next adventure! As my dad always tells me, &#8220;Try to have a\u00a0 little fun!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is crazy to think how quickly 9 months can pass. There were moments this past school year when I didn&#8217;t think summer vacation would ever get here&#8230; and I am reminded once again that wishing time away is such &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/2008\/05\/27\/the-end-already\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/erin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}