{"id":16351,"date":"2013-04-24T12:11:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T20:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=16351"},"modified":"2013-04-24T15:35:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T23:35:07","slug":"a-good-enough-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=16351","title":{"rendered":"A good enough life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I came across an article<\/a> on working moms, which promotes the idea that a mother’s life doesn’t have to be “perfect” but instead “good enough.” It’s a great read – I completely agree with the writer’s sentiments – but it was the ending that got to me.\u00c2\u00a0Not only does it remind me of Zoe (I can totally see her doing this), but it’s the\u00c2\u00a0perfect reminder that kids don’t need “perfect:”<\/p>\n

…My daughter came home from school one day and announced that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d had the best day of her life. When I asked what had happened, she said it was just an ordinary day. I pressed \u00e2\u20ac\u201d certainly something different must have occurred? She shook her head. Intrigued, I called her first-grade teachers and asked if anything special had happened in class. No, they repeated, it was just an ordinary day.<\/p>\n

It took a minute or two to sink in. All this effort to create the big moments that working mothers everywhere strive to produce, all the bells and whistles I was madly trying to clang, and my daughter said the best day of her life had been an ordinary day. A good enough life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

Last night I came across an article on working moms, which promotes the idea that a mother’s life doesn’t have to be “perfect” but instead “good enough.” It’s a great read – I completely agree with the writer’s sentiments – but it was the ending that got to me.\u00c2\u00a0Not only does it remind me of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-82-two-kids-april-june-13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351","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=16351"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16356,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351\/revisions\/16356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}