{"id":15490,"date":"2013-01-14T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=15490"},"modified":"2013-01-14T16:36:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T00:36:55","slug":"forty-eight-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=15490","title":{"rendered":"Forty-eight hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday morning, Zoe woke up early and called\u00c2\u00a0me into her room.\u00c2\u00a0After I\u00c2\u00a0entered\u00c2\u00a0she threw her arms around me and said with a sniff, “I don’t want Mama to go!” She knew Q and I were leaving that day for a little vacation, and she was clearly feeling sad about not seeing us for two days. I assured her all would be fine, and her tears went away – but later that morning, after dropping off the girls at school, I<\/em> was the one to feel sniffly.\u00c2\u00a0Forty-eight hours\u00c2\u00a0doesn’t sound like much, but it would be the longest I’ve ever been away from the girls (something that is, in my view, both pretty cool and pretty scary).<\/p>\n

Our trip to Vegas was\u00c2\u00a0taken to celebrate Q’s big birthday -\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0was only made possible by Pop Pop, who flew across the country to babysit for us. While we were away, the girls had a blast with Pop Pop,\u00c2\u00a0who had his most-ever amount of bonding time with them, and Q and I got some much-needed relaxation and kid-free time. It was a trip for Q, but it did a lot for me, too: reminding me of what life was like before the girls, reconnecting me and Q, and recharging my battery. And it also made me realize how lucky I am – especially because we have family that makes a get-away like this possible. (Thank you, Pop Pop!!)<\/p>\n

It filled me with happiness to see the girls at the airport upon our return (“I missed your faces,” I told them), and I know they were happy to see us too. And yet: I’m more than ready for the next birthday celebration or other excuse to get away. Any babysitting volunteers out there?? ;)<\/p>\n

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

Thursday morning, Zoe woke up early and called\u00c2\u00a0me into her room.\u00c2\u00a0After I\u00c2\u00a0entered\u00c2\u00a0she threw her arms around me and said with a sniff, “I don’t want Mama to go!” She knew Q and I were leaving that day for a little vacation, and she was clearly feeling sad about not seeing us for two days. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-79-two-kids-jan-mar-13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490","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=15490"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15498,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490\/revisions\/15498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}