{"id":941,"date":"2009-05-07T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=941"},"modified":"2010-05-08T09:36:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T16:36:17","slug":"roo-take-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"Roo Take 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My days sure seem to fly by lately.?? Just not enough hours in one day.?? Jim and I made the decision to “love our kids on purpose” in the evenings and have been trying to turn off our television and narrow down what we watch to after the kids are in bed (except AI because the kids love that).?? We got in a bad habit of eating in front of the tv a lot so we are all back at the table for family dinner time and then we are trying to play with them after dinner.?? Wed nights are Dad’s art class (tonight he worked on drawing bicycles with them).?? Thurs are Xbox night with Dad while Mom and Tori go to Shack Study.?? Other nights we are playing a lot of games.?? So far Tanner’s favorite is Life and Ty is liking Jenga.?? We also are having fun with Bunco.?? Tanner is so funny to play with.?? If he is winning (or things are looking promising), he is ON TOP of the world.?? He has a bad turn or someone else gets a lucky streak…he sinks DEEPLY into the pit.?? He is quite manic in the span of a one hour game.?? So much so it becomes very comical.?? We are trying our best to teach him to lose graciously but it isn’t taking so far.???? Ty – Mr. HAPPY go lucky keeps telling him “Just say CONGRATULATIONS!”?? LOL.?? Those two could not possibly be more different.?? It makes things very fun around here.<\/p>\n

On a different topic…I married the most wonderful man.?? I find new things to love about him all the time.?? I am so thankful that he is willing to learn with me.?? One thing I really celebrate in marriage, is that Jim and I work at staying on the same page.?? Growing together.?? He has invested so many times in what I was invested in.?? On a small scale…he jumps in and educates himself on my interests – like photography.?? He was researching radio poppers for me today (wireless transmitters for my lights) and trying to help me prioritize decisions.?? He makes sure I have what I need to the best that he is able for the things that interest me.?? Jim could care less about photography.?? He has not uttered one word of complaint that I have torn our front room upside down and left it that way.?? On a large scale, he invests the time in studying much of what I am studying when it comes to spiritual things.?? If I make a recommendation on something, even though he doesn’t enjoy reading, he has been taking the time to jump in with me.?? It is awesome because we can both digest things together – coming to the table bringing our own set of thoughts and ideas – but having a common foundation.?? It is a rare occasion that we end up in different places.?? We almost never “get there” the same way but we take what we have learned and end up standing together on it.?? How cool is that??? As you may have guessed, this week it has been the parenting book.?? He has been reading it and I wouldn’t even have had to ask that because it is evident.?? I have been watching him interact with our little blessings and I have seen such obvious choices to take the gentle path…the loving path…give choices in a loving voice.???? The tv turn off idea was his.?? HE wanted to spend more time interacting with our children.?? He is SUCH a good man.???? Not writing this to be all sappy and have most of you gagging.?? My kids might read this someday and I want them to know how in love I was (and will be) with their Daddy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

?? More pictures of my darling nephew.?? \ud83d\ude42 ?? ? ? My days sure seem to fly by lately.?? Just not enough hours in one day.?? Jim and I made the decision to “love our kids on purpose” in the evenings and have been trying to turn off our television and narrow down what we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-babies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}