{"id":14573,"date":"2012-10-28T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=14573"},"modified":"2012-10-29T15:02:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T23:02:04","slug":"just-a-few-more-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=14573","title":{"rendered":"Just a few more minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last summer, I wrote\u00c2\u00a0about feeling like my days of bouncing a baby\/toddler to sleep were about over. Indeed,\u00c2\u00a0within two months of my entry<\/a>, we packed away the blue\u00c2\u00a0exercise ball and\u00c2\u00a0Avery was bounced no longer.<\/p>\n

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, especially because Avery’s bedtime is so different these days. She doesn’t need much from us aside from a glass of water and a trip to the bathroom – but she does like someone to stay with her. “Lay with me. In my bed,” she’ll say before scooting over her little body so I can climb in beside her. When in bed I sometimes sing to her, but more often we just talk, laugh, or silently hug. And\u00c2\u00a0when I tell her I have to go, she’ll respond,\u00c2\u00a0“No, stay. Just a few more minutes.”<\/p>\n

By this time of night, I’m usually\u00c2\u00a0wiped out, and\u00c2\u00a0I have plenty of other things I need or want to do (like make dinner, check e-mail or, y’know, just relax<\/em>). It’s also not the easiest, or most comfortable, to fit my\u00c2\u00a05’9″ body into a toddler bed. But\u00c2\u00a0despite\u00c2\u00a0this,\u00c2\u00a0I never deny\u00c2\u00a0the request to lay with her. Just as I knew\u00c2\u00a0that summer\u00c2\u00a0that our bouncing days were limited,\u00c2\u00a0I know the days of her asking for this won’t last forever. Our time to lay next to each other in her little bed, with her touching my face or giggling and calling me “silly billy,” will pass by quickly, so I try to\u00c2\u00a0cherish it.<\/p>\n

And I always stay for just a few more minutes.<\/p>\n

-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last summer, I wrote\u00c2\u00a0about feeling like my days of bouncing a baby\/toddler to sleep were about over. Indeed,\u00c2\u00a0within two months of my entry, we packed away the blue\u00c2\u00a0exercise ball and\u00c2\u00a0Avery was bounced no longer. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, especially because Avery’s bedtime is so different these days. She doesn’t need much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-76-two-kids-october-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573","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=14573"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14646,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573\/revisions\/14646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}