{"id":11392,"date":"2012-01-04T09:58:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=11392"},"modified":"2012-01-04T09:59:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:59:08","slug":"resolution-to-keep-calm-and-carry-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=11392","title":{"rendered":"Resolution: To keep calm and carry on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the break a friend got for me a notebook with one of my favorite sayings on the front: <strong>Keep calm and carry on<\/strong>. It&#8217;s a mantra I&#8217;d like to start living by, and I figured that now &#8211; at the start of a new year &#8211; is as good of a time as any. And while I&#8217;m at it (and related to this), I&#8217;d also like to\u00c2\u00a0stress less about life&#8217;s little stuff (something I&#8217;ve been working on for years!) and to better savor life&#8217;s little moments, especially those involving the girls. The writer at Motherlode, one of my favorite blogs, actually\u00c2\u00a0perfectly captured my sentiments when she <a href=\"http:\/\/parenting.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/02\/new-years-resolutions-to-parent-by\/\">wrote about<\/a> &#8220;enjoying it&#8221; being one of her resolutions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I admit it, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made this last resolution for years. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made it at every fresh start, with the arrival of every child and with every one of the various events throughout any year that remind me that life is short and childhood is even shorter. In 2012, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153be here now.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to take a deep breath when we run crazy late for hockey practice and remember that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the destination that matters but the way we make the trip \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take any more time if I do it without slamming doors or even speeding down the driveway.<\/p>\n<p>If I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m honest, most of the time, I still won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take that deep breath. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll still get too frustrated with the child whose willful refusal to put her boots on (combined with my refusal to leave a child that young at home alone) created the late departure and all the tension that came with it. But in 2012, again, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll try. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll try to laugh at the spilled milk and the torn coat and the marker that went right through the paper onto the table or at the very least, not let those little things color a whole afternoon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And so, I will try also!<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the break a friend got for me a notebook with one of my favorite sayings on the front: Keep calm and carry on. It&#8217;s a mantra I&#8217;d like to start living by, and I figured that now &#8211; at the start of a new year &#8211; is as good of a time as any. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-66-two-kids-january-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392","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=11392"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11398,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392\/revisions\/11398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}