{"id":53,"date":"2011-05-16T15:54:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T20:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2011-05-16T15:54:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T20:54:23","slug":"and-so-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"And so it begins…."},"content":{"rendered":"

We had another eventful few days this weekend, but thankfully no heavy lifting or excessive sweating was involved this time.\u00a0 We drove to Houston on Saturday for a belated Mother’s Day visit and lunch and had such a nice time!\u00a0 We got to chat a lot and catch up and Jim and Karen treated us to lunch at Pappadeaux<\/a> which is always SO good.\u00a0 They put their salad bowls in the freezer ahead of time, and seriously, I love that!\u00a0 When the salad comes out totally chilled it just makes it for me.\u00a0 I told Scott that I just need someone to make me a chilled salad and I would eat one with dinner every single night.\u00a0 We compromised by buying a tub of mixed greens and some cherry tomatoes at the store for me to make it myself.\u00a0 I’m not sure it will be the same, but we’ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n

On Sunday we got up late and headed into Austin to make use of a brunch Groupon that I had that was about to expire.\u00a0 Had we known that we would get to have some of the best biscuits and gravy ever<\/em>, we certainly would have used that Groupon sooner.\u00a0 Anyway, before we left the restaurant, I suggested that maybe we could stop by the nearby baby store to see a stroller in person that I had been eyeballing online.\u00a0 hahaha.\u00a0 To my surprise he agreed!\u00a0 So we headed on over…it was only a few minutes away, so it totally made sense to do it while we were right there.<\/p>\n

The store was crazy busy, and the stroller section was a little bit…jam packed, but we managed to see some stuff we liked.\u00a0 We checked out strollers and car seats and cribs, and I think we might have settled on a\u00a0 good crib choice<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We like the dark wood color and the price is right.\u00a0 And it’s one of those cribs that can convert into a toddler bed, daybed\u00a0 and then later to a full size bed.\u00a0 (Necessary conversion kits are sold separately….of course.)\u00a0 But I think it will look really nice up against the yellow walls, and finding the ‘just right’ crib bedding is going to be a fun hunt!\u00a0 No official decisions have been made yet, but we’ve gotten the ball rolling, and as Scott said, his indoctrination has begun.<\/p>\n

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We had another eventful few days this weekend, but thankfully no heavy lifting or excessive sweating was involved this time.\u00a0 We drove to Houston on Saturday for a belated Mother’s Day visit and lunch and had such a nice time!\u00a0 We got to chat a lot and catch up and Jim and Karen treated us […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,10,7,3],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-domestic-bliss","tag-family-fun","tag-gearing-up","tag-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}