{"id":129,"date":"2007-12-01T20:50:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T03:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=129"},"modified":"2007-12-01T20:50:14","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T03:50:14","slug":"good-friends-good-food-good-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/good-friends-good-food-good-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friends, Good Food, Good Fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t usually get a lot of opportunity to just get out with other adults.<\/p>\n<p>A family of four requires an alignment of the stars and\u00c2\u00a0 cosmic balance to get a night out with out the kids, but with a babyistter, and to just get together with great friends without it costing an arm and a leg or two.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/sets\/72157603348043314\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2350\/2078999627_b21a970322_m.jpg?resize=160%2C240\" height=\"240\" style=\"width: 160px; height: 240px\" \/><\/a>My sister invited 3 other couples to her house, and Jon and I lucked out and our names were chosen as the 3rd and final couple to grace their house and presence.<\/p>\n<p>We all brought different parts of the dinner, and it was DELICIOUS!\u00c2\u00a0 I made Tabbouleh with quinoa instead of bulgar so me and my wheat free diet could be accomodated.\u00c2\u00a0 It was delicious, but the 3 hours of washing and chopping the 1 cup of fresh mint, 4 cups of fresh parsley, 1\/4 inch pieces of cucumber and tomatoe&#8230;&#8230;..let&#8217;s just say it wasn&#8217;t that delicious.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll be making it again.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a freak load of work.<\/p>\n<p>We all showed up, Kevin and Jennifer\u00c2\u00a0&amp; Kenny and Tracy and Roxy and Jon and I and &#8216;Siah and Debbie and Denver of course &#8217;cause it was their house.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/sets\/72157603348043314\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" width=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2409\/2078996115_018938f341_m.jpg?resize=240%2C160\" height=\"160\" style=\"width: 240px; height: 160px\" \/><\/a>We talked and ate and talked and ate&#8230;.hmmmmm..seems I talk a lot about eating, eh?<\/p>\n<p>It was so much fun to just hang out and not be dealing with the older three kids, and &#8216;Siah and Roxy were so cute.\u00c2\u00a0 they are only a month apart in age, and Honestly, I don&#8217;t know anyone else &#8211; <em>close to me in actual kilometers<\/em> &#8211; who has a little one close to Siah&#8217;s age, so it was nice to see another little baby.<\/p>\n<p>We had some great conversation, and Debbie and Denver have an awesome house&#8230;when I grow up I want to be just like them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/sets\/72157603348043314\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2380\/2078995847_a626f9d5ab.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" height=\"333\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 333px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>ps. click on any of the pics to see the whole set.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t usually get a lot of opportunity to just get out with other adults. A family of four requires an alignment of the stars and\u00c2\u00a0 cosmic balance to get a night out with out the kids, but with a babyistter, and to just get together with great friends without it costing an arm and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/good-friends-good-food-good-fun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good Friends, Good Food, Good Fun!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}