{"id":9907,"date":"2021-04-11T12:42:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T17:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=9907"},"modified":"2021-04-11T12:42:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T17:42:18","slug":"belated-easter-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=9907","title":{"rendered":"Belated Easter Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yesterday (4\/10)<\/strong> morning we grabbed two gift bags from Party City to put the kids&#8217; Easter gifts in. I had them in two very old plastic baskets from when they were kids but had a feeling they wouldn&#8217;t want to deal with those. I plan on donating them, in fact.<\/p>\n<p>We headed to K&#8217;s apartment, arriving at noon when we ran into her grandparents who were getting ready to go get their covid vaccinations. Her grandma asked me how I was doing since K must have mentioned some of the health issues I was going through. I was touched that she cared enough to ask. Kinda sad, though, that my husband&#8217;s ex-wife&#8217;s mother cares more than my own parents or siblings (and even some friends) when they know in even greater detail the hell I went through in 2019 and early 2020. But I digress&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>E was at K&#8217;s place helping her put together some new IKEA furniture. She&#8217;s loving living alone (she broke up with her longtime boyfriend ES back in November and to make a long story short he wasn&#8217;t nearly as nice of a person he made himself out to look). <\/p>\n<p>We visited inside for about an hour and a half (everyone wearing masks and the windows open for fresh air) and caught up with the kids (E ended up leaving a bit before we did since he had to work). <\/p>\n<p>Luckily the kids liked all their gifts. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Easter-Gifts-E.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Easter-Gifts-E-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Easter Gifts - E\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"entry\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Easter-Gifts-K.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Easter-Gifts-K-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Easter Gifts - K\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"entry\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>K remarked I must know her well in response to me warning her she was going to have a duplicate since I spotted one of the same items on her shelf when I came in (the reversible cat plush). E really liked the t-shirt we got him.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving we headed over to the Chinese restaurant Brother #2 introduced us to (which incidentally is the last restaurant we ate inside before COVID). It was closed, but there was a sign on the door stating they moved to their sister restaurant which just so happened to be on the way home anyway, so I ordered a few dishes that we took home for lunch. They were just as good as I remember too!<\/p>\n<p>I also updated the old location on Yelp. Someone marked it as permanently closed, but I changed it to moved so people can still find it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (4\/10) morning we grabbed two gift bags from Party City to put the kids&#8217; Easter gifts in. I had them in two very old plastic baskets from when they were kids but had a feeling they wouldn&#8217;t want to deal with those. I plan on donating them, in fact. We headed to K&#8217;s apartment, arriving at noon when we ran into her grandparents who were getting ready to go get their covid vaccinations. Her grandma asked me how I was doing since K must have mentioned some of the health issues I was going through. I was touched that she cared enough to ask. Kinda sad, though, that my husband&#8217;s ex-wife&#8217;s mother cares more than my own parents or siblings (and even some friends) when they know in even greater detail the hell I went through in 2019 and early 2020. But I digress&#8230; E was at K&#8217;s place <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=9907\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9907"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9914,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9907\/revisions\/9914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}