{"id":2643,"date":"2012-01-27T10:41:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T15:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=2643"},"modified":"2012-01-27T10:41:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T15:41:47","slug":"elephants-where-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=2643","title":{"rendered":"Elephants, Where Are You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of course I should have known better! \u00a0It&#8217;s Friday&#8230; (did I mention our cleaning lady quit&#8230; apparently to go back to school&#8230;but I&#8217;m not sure really&#8230;), since returning back from India, I&#8217;ve had sick kiddies and have not really had the time or limbs (since I have had a kid attached to them) to get much else done. \u00a0Today&#8230; I made myself a vow to tackle the house, the floors, the toilets, the laundry&#8230; today, after sending ALL the kiddies to school, finally!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I awake and realize that busses are cancelled. \u00a0Outside is pure ice. \u00a0I watch the dogs slipping their way around. Sigh. \u00a0Do you think that the boys, who never wake up until being hollered at 50 times, would sleep in? \u00a0NOPE! \u00a0They are all bouncing on my bed, waiting to hear if the school hockey tournament is cancelled. \u00a0All are home. Yay! \u00a0Well normally, but I really wanted an empty house to clean.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sanj woke up sick. \ud83d\ude41 \u00a0Today he took off to work even harder putting up boards for the outdoor Under the Locks hockey tournament this weekend. \u00a0He will freeze all weekend, putting up boards, helping organzine the teams, be a human zamboni all day and then in between hearing comments of ungrateful parents, will then be there till late Sunday, tearing down the boards and helping clean up. \u00a0Crazy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oh well&#8230; as I sit here, avoiding the mess, watching the snow fall with a fury, I am grateful for all my blessings&#8230; a house, heat, food, stuff, lots of stuff that causes messes and love. \u00a0Lots of love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_3058.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2646\" title=\"DSC_3058\" src=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_3058-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_3058-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_3058-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While in New Delhi, I asked our guide\/driver, Santosh, where the stereotypically \u00a0elephants were. \u00a0You know, in movies, you always see the token elephant wandering on the streets. \u00a0He seems baffled. <em>\u00a0&#8220;Elephants, Ma&#8217;am? Elephants in the ju.&#8221;<\/em> \u00a0(Later we interpreted &#8220;ju&#8221; to be zoo. \u00a0Elephants are in the zoo! The boys and I had a good laugh about this. \u00a0I&#8217;m sure Santosh was thinking, &#8220;<em>Crazy Canadian!&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course I should have known better! \u00a0It&#8217;s Friday&#8230; (did I mention our cleaning lady quit&#8230; apparently to go back to school&#8230;but I&#8217;m not sure really&#8230;), since returning back from India, I&#8217;ve had sick kiddies and have not really had &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=2643\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2648,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions\/2648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}