{"id":16921,"date":"2013-07-02T09:13:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T17:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=16921"},"modified":"2013-07-19T10:45:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T18:45:40","slug":"thoughts-from-a-busy-mom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=16921","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts from a (busy) mom"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been so busy filling the blog with pictures of our various activities that I haven’t given an update on just life<\/em>. The truth is that, in the words of Ferris Bueller, life is moving pretty fast. It seems like just yesterday that the new school year began, and now we’ve moved on to other things: the start of camp (including a new one for Zoe), our house project, Avery’s recent\u00c2\u00a0birthday (still can’t believe she’s four) and several trips (starting next week, we’re taking three vacations in seven weeks).\u00c2\u00a0Despite the occasional stressors, life is good<\/em> -\u00c2\u00a0it just seems to be moving in a flash.<\/p>\n

(Zoe even commented the other day, during a discussion on her being a first-grader now, that the school year had flown by. “I hate to tell you, Zoe, but time goes faster the older you get,” I told her. And I didn’t have a good answer to her follow-up of “why?”)<\/p>\n

I’ve also been thinking lately, as I often do, about\u00c2\u00a0how different life is with slightly older children. With two increasingly independent girls (who have long slept through the night), I’m no longer physically<\/em> exhausted. I’m also mostly free of the baby- and toddler-related worries; I no longer have to stress about leaving home with a million snacks and\u00c2\u00a0a change of clothes, or\u00c2\u00a0getting home from some activity by 1 or 2 for naptime each afternoon. (Amazingly, the girls lasted the entire day when we recently visited Great America.) But I feel way, way busier and emotionally<\/em> exhausted than ever before: Long gone are the leisurely walks or mellow playdates with my little ones*; in their place is loud interactions with two spirited girls who often demand my full attention. And dealing with\u00c2\u00a0school paperwork, taking kids to\/from various\u00c2\u00a0locations,\u00c2\u00a0and managing\u00c2\u00a0the family schedule\u00c2\u00a0sometimes feels as if it could be a\u00c2\u00a0part-time job on its own!<\/p>\n

But as Ferris Bueller also<\/em> said, “if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” So I better start looking around…<\/p>\n

-M<\/p>\n

*I fully recognize, upon a second read of this,\u00c2\u00a0that I’m glamorizing life with a little one. It’s not like my days then were all peaceful and, as I put it, “leisurely” – and I’ve got my blog entries to prove it! But we tend to forget the hard times after they’ve passed, don’t we?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been so busy filling the blog with pictures of our various activities that I haven’t given an update on just life. The truth is that, in the words of Ferris Bueller, life is moving pretty fast. It seems like just yesterday that the new school year began, and now we’ve moved on to other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-81-two-kids-july-sept-13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921","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=16921"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17274,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921\/revisions\/17274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}