{"id":2750,"date":"2009-07-22T12:23:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T19:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2750"},"modified":"2009-07-22T12:24:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T19:24:32","slug":"no-more-tests-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2750","title":{"rendered":"No more “tests” – please!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently talked about<\/a> feeling like we had passed our first real parenting test by caring for a newborn and sick toddler simultaneously. What I didn’t know then was that the real test was still to come! After Zoe got better, I became super ill (let’s just say I spent most of Saturday lying on the floor with a bucket); by Monday, neither Q or Avery were feeling 100%. Through it all, Q and I had to hold it together and continue caring for both girls – whether we felt up to it or not. <\/p>\n

Having an illness run through the house is incredibly difficult: it not only means aching bodies, but long nights, frayed nerves and frustrated tears. (And did I mention lots and lots of laundry??) I admit to not holding up as well as I could have and to having more than one breakdown these past few days. How are we going to get through this?<\/em> I asked more than once, including yesterday morning, after waking up from only four hours of sleep. But Q kept telling me to hang in there – that soon we would all feel better, get more sleep and fall back into our “normal” routine – and so we just pressed on.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, Q was right. I don’t want to jinx anything, but I feel like we’re through the worst of things, and we’re all slowly returning to normal. And all I can say now is that this bug better stay away for good. We don’t need anymore “tests,” thank you!<\/p>\n

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

I recently talked about feeling like we had passed our first real parenting test by caring for a newborn and sick toddler simultaneously. What I didn’t know then was that the real test was still to come! After Zoe got better, I became super ill (let’s just say I spent most of Saturday lying on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-36two-kids-july-09"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750","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=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}