{"id":19718,"date":"2014-05-25T08:25:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T16:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=19718"},"modified":"2014-10-04T13:33:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T21:33:45","slug":"thoughts-from-a-busy-pressed-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=19718","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts from a busy (pressed) mom"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t remember a period of time since having kids that was this busy and intense. With the school year rapidly coming to a close it seems there’s always an event to volunteer for, a performance or ceremony to plan for,\u00c2\u00a0a permission slip to sign, a check to write, an e-mail to return. Zoe has two big school performances and an end-of-first-grade party coming up in the next few weeks; Avery has her big “moving on” ceremony this Wednesday, a last-day-of school party on Thursday and then a week off before camp starts. (We still haven’t finalized her week-off plans, and Q I have to work, but: details, details.) Add on top of this a busy work schedule and regular life stuff, and it can all feel a bit, well, crushing.<\/em><\/p>\n

The positives: The girls (despite a weekend bout with strep for Avery) are happy and healthy, and they’re excited for the myriad events coming up. And, despite all the stuff going on, we’ve spent a lot of time with friends – a Memorial Day BBQ yesterday afternoon, a family dinner on Friday night, lots of birthday parties in past and future weeks. Most of our friends have kids (and usually more than one) our kids’ age, and they get<\/em> it. I don’t have to explain to my friends if I look stressed or say that I’m one e-mail request away from flipping out. They’re there, too.<\/p>\n

As my mom friends and I say to each other all the time: we’re in the weeds, we’re living in pressure cookers, we’re all pressed. But at the end of the day, we’re also blessed<\/em>. We just have to take deep breaths (advice my mom has been giving me for years!) and get through it.<\/p>\n

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

I don’t remember a period of time since having kids that was this busy and intense. With the school year rapidly coming to a close it seems there’s always an event to volunteer for, a performance or ceremony to plan for,\u00c2\u00a0a permission slip to sign, a check to write, an e-mail to return. Zoe has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-84-two-kids-april-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19718","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=19718"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19725,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19718\/revisions\/19725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}