{"id":17771,"date":"2013-09-06T16:50:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T00:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=17771"},"modified":"2017-07-01T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T00:15:14","slug":"guilt-be-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=17771","title":{"rendered":"Guilt be gone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zoe&#8217;s school is closed this week for the holiday, but it offered all-day care on Tuesday and Wednesday for those who needed it. We planned for Zoe to go both days, which she was fine with (and even excited about), but when I dropped\u00c2\u00a0her off early Wednesday, I couldn&#8217;t help but feel a little bad. She was the first kid there, and it was just so&#8230; quiet. I rarely get working-mom guilt, but I left with\u00c2\u00a0deep pangs of\u00c2\u00a0guilt and regret. Was I abandoning her (and, worse, would she feel abandoned)? Was she going to have any fun? Should I have just taken the day off work to be with her?<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to pick-up, when I was told that Zoe had set up a play &#8220;spa&#8221; (massages, pedicures, etc.) and had been putting on dance shows for her schoolmates all afternoon. (She had even made tickets &#8211; &#8220;The Zoe and Reed Show&#8221; &#8211; for everyone!) I sat down along with the 6 or 7 remaining kids and watched her\u00c2\u00a0perform in the gym (below)\u00c2\u00a0before we left &#8211; and I couldn&#8217;t help but feel grateful over how happy and at home she is at school! (Even when there <em>is<\/em> no school.)<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Zoe-dancing-in-gym.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17777\" title=\"Zoe dancing in gym\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Zoe-dancing-in-gym.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Zoe-dancing-in-gym.jpg 403w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Zoe-dancing-in-gym-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoe&#8217;s school is closed this week for the holiday, but it offered all-day care on Tuesday and Wednesday for those who needed it. We planned for Zoe to go both days, which she was fine with (and even excited about), but when I dropped\u00c2\u00a0her off early Wednesday, I couldn&#8217;t help but feel a little bad. [&hellip;]<\/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-17771","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\/17771","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=17771"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25284,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771\/revisions\/25284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}