Yesterday Lydia and I, with Brynja in tow, had our monthly lunch in town, and Olof and the middle kids–I’m having such a hard time learning not to call Tage and Petra “the little kids”–tagged along for a lunch of their own. Driving there, Olof and I were trying to agree on a place and time to meet back up, and he suggested a parking lot in the center of town about an hour after I was to drop them off.<\/p>\n
“Lydia’s going to want to do some shopping,” I reminded him. “She has her allowance.”<\/p>\n
He asked where I suggested meeting up, then, so I called back to Lydia, who sits in the far back of the car. “Where do you want to shop?”<\/p>\n
“What? When?” she asked, a strange quality to her voice.<\/p>\n
“Today, Lydia,” I answered, my voice all exaggerated patience. “We’re in the car on our way to town right now, aren’t we?”<\/p>\n
Now her tone was pure panic. “WHAT?! I’m getting a shot<\/em> today?”<\/p>\n “No, SHOP. We’re going shopping. Where do you want to shop<\/em>?”<\/p>\n “Oh,” she said, relaxing into giddy giggles of relief that lasted for at least a mile or two. “I thought you were taking me for a shot.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday Lydia and I, with Brynja in tow, had our monthly lunch in town, and Olof and the middle kids–I’m having such a hard time learning not to call Tage and Petra “the little kids”–tagged along for a lunch of their own. Driving there, Olof and I were trying to agree on a place and… Read More Phobic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}