{"id":10822,"date":"2026-08-31T20:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=10822"},"modified":"2026-08-31T20:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:21:13","slug":"cousin-time-summer-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=10822","title":{"rendered":"Cousin Time – Summer 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sixteen days.  Over two full weeks of Lauren, Gabriel, Noah, and Elias being in town.  They arrived the evening we arrived home from the beach.  Since that evening, the girls have hung out with the boys nearly every single day.  The second week Lauren worked in her office every day in Maryland and Gabriel was in San Francisco for work. While we didn\u2019t see much of my sister or any of Gabriel the second week they were here, cousin time was still strong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had several meals together\u2026.Peruvian takeout (Cucos), Afghan takeout (MamanJoon), Italian (The Italian Oven), Mexican Indian Fusion (Mama Tigre), and homecooked meals at our house (grilled chicken and mac n cheese, beef tacos \u2013 twice) and Abbotsford Drive (burgers and dogs).  And one night out of the four adults at Agora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We had a small celebration the night we got home from the beach for Avery and Emerson turning 15 since their birthday was while we were at the beach.  My parents got cupcakes from The Bake Shop.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Harper celebrated her birthday at Andy\u2019s Pizza and the Bowling Alley with Papa, Grandma, Lauren, Gabriel, Avery, Emerson, and the boys.  Bowling and arcade games.  We all celebrated with dinner and pie at my parents in the evening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There was swimming\u2026a lot of swimming!  Though very few pictures of swimming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There was hanging around Papa and Grandma\u2019s house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There were sleepovers!  I think five in total. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There was hanging around our house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Papa, Avery, and the boys went to The Air and Space Museum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Nationals Game was had.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There was building, soccer playing, basketball shooting, Nintendo playing, jokes, laughs, and boys fighting and wrestling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

London certainly isn\u2019t close by, but the long visits a few times a year allow for some quality time together. We will miss them until we see them again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sixteen days.  Over two full weeks of Lauren, Gabriel, Noah, and Elias being in town.  They arrived the evening we arrived home from the beach.  Since that evening, the girls have hung out with the boys nearly every single day.  The second week Lauren … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10847,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10822\/revisions\/10847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}