{"id":3897,"date":"2009-03-30T10:19:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T15:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/?p=3897"},"modified":"2009-03-30T10:19:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T15:19:30","slug":"a-love-of-mustard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/2009\/a-love-of-mustard\/","title":{"rendered":"A LOVE OF MUSTARD"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven\u2019t had much time to work on my blog lately. The past two weeks at work I have been training my replacement at work \u2013 helping Amy and Jim move \u2013 shooting a wedding and corporate photos \u2013 editing photos \u2013 it never ends!<\/span><\/p>\n

Tuesday night we helped Amy and Jim with their new house \u2013 I painted the bathroom with Amy while Jared and Kurtis pulled up carpeting downstairs. Wednesday night the youth group helped Amy and Jim move their basement and garage and kitchen \u2013 in 50 minutes! Thursday night we went back down and Jared worked more on the flooring while I put a second coat on the bathroom. <\/span><\/p>\n

Ella \u2013 Amy and Jim\u2019s daughter \u2013 hung out with me while I painted the bathroom. She is one of my favorite kids on the planet. She will be 5 in July and is one of the smartest kids I know.<\/span><\/p>\n

We had the following conversation \u2013 <\/span><\/p>\n

D: Ella \u2013 what do you want to be when you grow up?<\/span><\/p>\n

E: I want to be a PT like Mommy and work at the Phoenix. But my Phoenix is going to be in Wellsboro. If I have a Phoenix in Wellsboro and Mommy has a Phoenix in Mansfield \u2013 whose would you go to?<\/span><\/p>\n

D: Seeing as how you are one of my favorite kids \u2013 I would probably have to go to your Phoenix. <\/span><\/p>\n

E: Why don\u2019t you come to my Phoenix one day and Mommy\u2019s Phoenix the next day so that we can share?<\/span><\/p>\n

That sounded like a good \u2013 fair solution to me. I was telling Amy about the conversation with Ella \u2013 how cute it was \u2013 and Ella comes running in the room saying \u2013 I wanted to have Danielle come to both our clinics so that you can see her too \u2013 since you have cancelled her from her job. I laughed and laughed and laughed. <\/span><\/p>\n

Amy ordered Chinese food for dinner \u2013 we all sat down at the table while Amy and Jim met with the carpet guy \u2013 Ella provided the dinner entertainment with the following \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

E:\u00a0 (looking around the table and saying in a low voice) Daddy isn\u2019t going to eat any of this.<\/span><\/p>\n

D: Really \u2013 why is that?<\/span><\/p>\n

E: Well \u2013 don\u2019t tell him I told you this \u2013 but Daddy only eats peanut butter and mustard sandwiches. When I come home from school \u2013 I say \u2013 Daddy \u2013 let\u2019s get your mind off mustard and talk about something else. But all he says to me is \u2013 Ella \u2013 I can\u2019t help it \u2013 I just love mustard. I want mustard for breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner. I love mustard! Sometimes when we go to restaurants \u2013 he orders mustard and PB sandwiches and Mommy tells him that it is bad manners in a restaurant to do that \u2013 but he can\u2019t help it \u2013 he loves mustard!<\/span><\/p>\n

D: Can I ask him about this?<\/span><\/p>\n

E: Oh no, you can\u2019t \u2013 he gets so embarrassed about his love for mustard!<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how she comes up with this stuff!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven\u2019t had much time to work on my blog lately. The past two weeks at work I have been training my replacement at work \u2013 helping Amy and Jim move \u2013 shooting a wedding and corporate photos \u2013 editing photos \u2013 it never ends! Tuesday night we helped Amy and Jim with their new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}