{"id":425,"date":"2006-02-14T17:27:09","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T17:27:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-16T11:17:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T11:17:27","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day, everybody.  I apologize for the absence.  That is how it goes, y&#8217;all.   I have had a very nice Valentine&#8217;s Day.  Once again, Jon got the drop on me and outdid me, presents-wise.  He got me a beautiful sweater set, some YUMMY chocolates and some lemon verbena lotion.  What did I get him?  Some gin.  It was kind of nice gin, but still.  One day I&#8217;m going to surprise the daylights out of him &#8212; sweet man that he is.  <\/p>\n<p>The rest of the day consisted with the usual &#8212; plus the sick baby taking one giant nap while I made gluten-free and non-gluten free cupcakes and frosting.  I&#8217;m grilling hamburgers later and making homemade fries (recipe to follow soon &#8212; maybe tomorrow) for dinner tonight.  I&#8217;m sure that #3 will think that this is a great dinner.  I know that I will enjoy not getting his hound-dog eyes looking at me over a plate of food that he wouldn&#8217;t touch with a ten foot pole.  That boy.  Tonight the menu will be a break for the both of us, in a way.  <\/p>\n<p>The boys had fun with their Valentine&#8217;s Day parties at school.  And, even though #1 is being homeschooled this semester, his former classmates all sent him valentines.  They sent him a book, too, which they had all signed and written little messages to him in.  Those are sweet children and such a kind teacher.  #1 was really blessed by all of them.<\/p>\n<p>Later, we hope to go see our Miss Liz, who is finally getting better for good, we hope, at a rehab facility here in St. Louis.  We&#8217;re taking her a balloon and a Pooh card that says, &#8220;It&#8217;s friendlier with two&#8230;&#8221;.  Don&#8217;t you just love A.A. Milne?  <\/p>\n<p>I must go grill burgers in the Spring-like weather.<br \/>\nCheck back tomorrow for the recipe for homemade fries.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day, everybody. I apologize for the absence. That is how it goes, y&#8217;all. I have had a very nice Valentine&#8217;s Day. Once again, Jon got the drop on me and outdid me, presents-wise. He got me a beautiful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=425\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}