{"id":422,"date":"2009-03-23T09:29:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T17:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=422"},"modified":"2009-03-23T14:42:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T22:42:27","slug":"the-birds-are-singing-the-sun-is-shining-the-bunnys-are-hopping-and-the-unicornwell-he-just-farted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/the-birds-are-singing-the-sun-is-shining-the-bunnys-are-hopping-and-the-unicornwell-he-just-farted\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birds are Singing!  The Sun is Shining; the Bunny&#8217;s are Hopping and the Unicorn&#8230;.Well, He just Farted!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The kids have gone back to school today &#8211; GLORY HALLELUJAH!<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I love &#8217;em and all, but I also like to have at least one moment when no one is asking me for &#8220;something&#8221;&#8230;.&#8221;anything&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, Siah is still not 100% and he is still whining and whining and whining and whining.<\/p>\n<p>I hate that whole&#8230;..  &#8220;I&#8217;m sorta sick, but not really and actually, I&#8217;m just practising for when I&#8217;m all grown up and have a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rXLHWmjA5IE&#038;feature=related\">man cold<\/a>&#8220;.  Yah, he&#8217;s starting young, this one is&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>I would probably be a bit more sympathetic had I been able to sleep a bit more over the past 3 nights, but sleep&#8230;.sleep is for wimps.  Who needs sleep when you can stay up all night cuddling a sick, coughing, crying baby who only taunts you with the possibility of sleep?  Who?  Not me, I tell you.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway,  I have this impossible notion that I&#8217;m going to accomplish all sorts of things today.  Would you like to hear my list&#8230;.I guess technically you&#8217;d read my list, but that is splitting hairs and the fact that I&#8217;m even coherent enough to be making any sort of a list&#8230;&#8230;..delusional or otherwise &#8211; is pretty amazing as far as I&#8217;m concerned.<\/p>\n<p>So, in <del datetime=\"2009-03-23T17:03:46+00:00\">a perfect<\/del> <del datetime=\"2009-03-23T17:03:46+00:00\">an okay<\/del> a decent world, I will:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <del datetime=\"2009-03-23T22:34:17+00:00\">take a shower and get dressed <\/del>(<em>these two go hand in hand because if I only take a shower and don&#8217;t manage to get dressed, well&#8230;..that&#8217;s almost a step backward as far as I&#8217;m concerned because even though right now I&#8217;m in my pyjamas and I stink&#8230;I could at least answer the door.  Right???<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Showered, dressed and even did my hair&#8230;no makeup though&#8230;.oh, but I did wax the ol&#8217;stach off&#8230;.was getting a bit manly for my liking&#8230;.just keeping it real&#8230;..<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; tidy the house (<em>I&#8217;m not even talking about deep cleaning &#8211; just scraping the mountains of toys and clothes back into each childs room<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Not as much done here as I&#8217;d like&#8230;.I still have time left in the day, though&#8230;..right?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <del datetime=\"2009-03-23T22:34:17+00:00\">plan <\/del>AND make dinner (<em>we need to eat and I&#8217;m not thinking that the kids will be happy with a handful of vitamins<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Starting dinner in 20 mins&#8230;..chicken stirfry&#8230;mmmmmmmmm!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <del datetime=\"2009-03-23T22:34:17+00:00\">Wash AND dry some laundry<\/del> (<em>Those darn kids think that &#8220;clean your room&#8221; means throw everything on the floor down to the laundry room&#8230;then it&#8217;s clean, eh?<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Only one load washed and dried (I still have time&#8230;.) and 4 loads folded but not yet put away.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The pipe dream list includes <del datetime=\"2009-03-23T22:34:17+00:00\">Siah actually laying down and going to sleep <\/del>for an afternoon nap for even just one hour&#8230;..but seeing as he&#8217;s woken up the moment that I&#8217;ve so much as breathed the thought of putting him in his bed&#8230;.I&#8217;m not really holding out too much hope for that one.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>He slept for 35 mins&#8230;..not an hour, but about 30 mins longer than he has in the past few days&#8230;&#8230;beggar&#8217;s can&#8217;t e choosers, eh?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now, the little monkey is  on top of my work table trying out my new necklaces&#8230;.so, I gotta go and rescue <del datetime=\"2009-03-23T17:03:46+00:00\">them<\/del> him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kids have gone back to school today &#8211; GLORY HALLELUJAH! I mean, I love &#8217;em and all, but I also like to have at least one moment when no one is asking me for &#8220;something&#8221;&#8230;.&#8221;anything&#8221;. Mind you, Siah is still not 100% and he is still whining and whining and whining and whining. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/the-birds-are-singing-the-sun-is-shining-the-bunnys-are-hopping-and-the-unicornwell-he-just-farted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Birds are Singing!  The Sun is Shining; the Bunny&#8217;s are Hopping and the Unicorn&#8230;.Well, He just Farted!&#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":[8,14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-josiah","category-kids"],"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\/422","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=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}