It doesn’t take much in the way of deductive skills, I’m sure, to conclude that we had a bit of a rough weekend, Lydia and I. I’ll spare my readers the unpleasant details (and spare myself the recounting of them), and leave the subject saying only that I fervently hope I’m paying my dues now and will have a dream of a teenager a few years from now, when she actually is<\/em> a teenager.<\/p>\n Today has been much smoother, with nary a harsh word spoken between us. She didn’t even complain about dinner, though there was some confusion regarding what exactly I was serving. She came upstairs while I was cooking and asked, “That German shepherd thing, is that what we’re having?”<\/p>\n “What German shepherd thing?”<\/p>\n “You know, with the meat and potatoes and cheese.”<\/p>\n I managed, barely, to stifle a chuckle. “Oh, shepherd’s pie,” I said, my voice made carefully even, without a trace of amusement. “Yes, that’s what we’re having.”<\/p>\n A few minutes later she went to the little white-board menu we’ve got on the fridge and scrubbed out last week’s entries. Then she painstakingly wrote “shepherd’s paj”<\/em> on today’s line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It doesn’t take much in the way of deductive skills, I’m sure, to conclude that we had a bit of a rough weekend, Lydia and I. I’ll spare my readers the unpleasant details (and spare myself the recounting of them), and leave the subject saying only that I fervently hope I’m paying my dues now… Read More Still cute<\/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-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","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=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}