{"id":10336,"date":"2011-10-04T10:53:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T18:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=10336"},"modified":"2011-10-04T10:53:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T18:53:43","slug":"good-bye-sickness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=10336","title":{"rendered":"Good-bye, sickness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I don&#8217;t use the blog to vent or complain as much as I could (or sometimes wish I did), it should go without saying that parenting isn&#8217;t always sunshine, unicorns and, er, pumpkin patches. Raising kids is a very up-and-down thing and, as I <em>have<\/em> complained about here before, nothing brings on the &#8220;downs&#8221; more than sickness. <\/p>\n<p>Avery has been sick three times, and Zoe twice, since the beginning of the school year, and I was also sick shortly after our trip to LA a few weeks ago. The constant trips to the doctor&#8217;s office and Walgreens, the who-can-miss-a-day-of-work-this-time conversations between me and Q, the general interruption of our family routine, and the girls&#8217; (understandable) grumpiness really took a toll &#8211; and led to more than one rough moment. (&#8220;That&#8217;s it! Mommy is leaving and not coming back!&#8221; I cried out in frustration one night. Of course, I didn&#8217;t go anywhere.)<\/p>\n<p>The good news, of course, is that the girls got better and we fell back into our normal routine. (And while &#8220;normal&#8221; isn&#8217;t always perfect &#8211; Zoe and I had a tear-filled battle over getting dressed just this morning &#8211; it sure beats the alternative.) And if any positive can come from a rough month, health-wise, it&#8217;s a renewed appreciation for healthy, happy days!<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I don&#8217;t use the blog to vent or complain as much as I could (or sometimes wish I did), it should go without saying that parenting isn&#8217;t always sunshine, unicorns and, er, pumpkin patches. Raising kids is a very up-and-down thing and, as I have complained about here before, nothing brings on the &#8220;downs&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-63-two-kids-october-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10336"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10362,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336\/revisions\/10362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}