{"id":626,"date":"2009-09-18T14:15:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T19:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/?p=626"},"modified":"2009-10-25T06:44:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T11:44:51","slug":"i-never-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/18\/i-never-expected","title":{"rendered":"I never expected&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My ponderings of the day:<\/p>\n<p>*I never expected I could sit on the floor and play for hours and still feel exhausted at the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p>*I never expected something as simple as making dinner to be so challenging some days.<\/p>\n<p>*I never expected to be so excited to hear my baby say &#8220;mama.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*I never expected to be SO tired!<\/p>\n<p>*I never expected that the hour before Andy got home from work could take so very long.<\/p>\n<p>*I never expected that I could be with someone all day and still feel lonely sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>*I never expected that I would be so excited to see a two year old&#8217;s look of pride from riding his trike up a hill.<\/p>\n<p>*I never expected that I would sometimes not take a shower until after noon (or maybe not at all).<\/p>\n<p>*I never expected I would love to mow the lawn so much&#8230;because it&#8217;s my quiet, alone time outside.<\/p>\n<p>*I never expected I had it in my to not get sick to my stomach while changing a particularly explosive diaper or after getting thrown up on.<\/p>\n<p>*I never expected I could love my husband more just by watching him be Daddy!<\/p>\n<p>*I never expected nap time would be so sacred!<\/p>\n<p>*I never expected that sometimes I would let my child cry through Target because I wasn&#8217;t going to give in to the demand and I really needed to finish my shopping.<\/p>\n<p>*I never expected that sometimes I would just give in to my whining child&#8217;s demand to keep them quiet in Target.<\/p>\n<p>*I never expected that some days the only time my house is picked up is before we even wake up.<\/p>\n<p>*I never expected that I would care so much about vegetable consumption.<\/p>\n<p>*I never expected that I would not freak out when my child eats the days old cheerio out of the sweeping pile.<\/p>\n<p>*I never expected that I would fear so many things happening to my kids.<\/p>\n<p>*I never expected to <em>feel <\/em>so much&#8230;of everything!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ponderings of the day: *I never expected I could sit on the floor and play for hours and still feel exhausted at the end of the day. *I never expected something as simple as making dinner to be so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/18\/i-never-expected\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asher","category-titus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}