{"id":146,"date":"2012-07-03T03:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familyfoodandtravel.com\/2012\/07\/life-is-a-circus-might-as-well-get-the-tent.html"},"modified":"2014-09-23T20:06:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T00:06:30","slug":"life-is-a-circus-might-as-well-get-the-tent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyfoodandtravel.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/03\/life-is-a-circus-might-as-well-get-the-tent\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is a circus, might as well get the tent","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life at our house is a circus on most days, but this past week and upcoming week it feels more and more like I am the ring master trying to keep this show going on.\u00a0 My husband&#8217;s catering has been busier than ever, Nico has had strange hives that come and go all over his body, we are packing up our living room and dining room so that hard wood flooring can be installed, and I am preparing to go away to a conference for five days.\u00a0 I can hear the circus music on repeat in my head.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>How fitting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikea.com\/ca\/en\/catalog\/products\/10206883\/\" target=\"_blank\">IKEA<\/a> has created a circus tent for kids.\u00a0 When I saw it I knew instantly that this belonged in our house!\u00a0 Although I purchased it almost a month ago I was saving it for a day we needed a new toy.\u00a0 I brought it out yesterday for the boys to play in.\u00a0 An instant hit.\u00a0 The giggles were contagious.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/familyfoodandtravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/-1ambXHN8gNw\/T_JjpFozSFI\/AAAAAAAAAbE\/dASvhcnBGKI\/s1600\/IMG_5631.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/familyfoodandtravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/-1ambXHN8gNw\/T_JjpFozSFI\/AAAAAAAAAbE\/dASvhcnBGKI\/s200\/IMG_5631.JPG\" width=\"133\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/familyfoodandtravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/-6YxhfhJPxDw\/T_Jju-uOb8I\/AAAAAAAAAbI\/z4lZMN29fxc\/s1600\/IMG_5636.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/familyfoodandtravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/-6YxhfhJPxDw\/T_Jju-uOb8I\/AAAAAAAAAbI\/z4lZMN29fxc\/s200\/IMG_5636.JPG\" width=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/familyfoodandtravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/-R2oKyncvGqw\/T_Jj26rsBjI\/AAAAAAAAAbM\/538s6y_heJg\/s1600\/IMG_5637.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/familyfoodandtravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/-R2oKyncvGqw\/T_Jj26rsBjI\/AAAAAAAAAbM\/538s6y_heJg\/s320\/IMG_5637.JPG\" width=\"244\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Here&#8217;s to our circus.\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way. <\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\ufeff<\/div>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life at our house is a circus on most days, but this past week and upcoming week it feels more and more like I am the ring master trying to keep this show going on.\u00a0 My husband&#8217;s catering has been busier than ever, Nico has had strange hives that come and go all over his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[9,25,7],"table_tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - 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