{"id":114,"date":"2007-10-05T08:17:45","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T13:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2008-03-16T14:53:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T19:53:41","slug":"the-essence-of-a-dining-room-table-or-the-diy-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"The essence of a dining room table (or The DIY continues)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"photo_h\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2007\/10\/D_sleeping_27Sept2007.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDamian fell asleep in his highchair.<br \/>\n27 September 2007<\/p>\n<p>Our living room\/dining room area (the largest area in the house)\u00c2\u00a0has been completely covered in plastic drop cloths for two weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 The children have been confined to the outside during the day and then have been confined to our bedroom at dusk and night when the mosquitoes start to swarm.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve been having breakfast outside on the porch, and dinner has been a picnic with all of us piled onto the bed.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, this was fun the first couple of times, but the strain is starting to show.\u00c2\u00a0 Last night, Matt finally pulled the dinner table back out into the main area and we had dinner at the table.\u00c2\u00a0 I never realized how important a dinner table is before this experience.\u00c2\u00a0 Mealtimes were a nightmare!\u00c2\u00a0 The uncomfortable logistics of attempting to eat in awkward places made mealtimes a complete nightmare.\u00c2\u00a0 You would not believe the wave of relief and gratitude that washed over me when Matt said, &#8220;Let&#8217;s get the table out.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 I swear I could have cried.<\/p>\n<p>So, this is a lesson for all, I think:\u00c2\u00a0 don&#8217;t take your dining room table for granted.\u00c2\u00a0 It is the place where your family gathers to comfortably have meals together and enjoy one another&#8217;s company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damian fell asleep in his highchair. 27 September 2007 Our living room\/dining room area (the largest area in the house)\u00c2\u00a0has been completely covered in plastic drop cloths for two weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 The children have been confined to the outside during the day and then have been confined to our bedroom at dusk and night when the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surburbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}