{"id":3668,"date":"2010-02-05T15:20:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T23:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=3668"},"modified":"2010-04-30T15:40:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T23:40:53","slug":"avery-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=3668","title":{"rendered":"Avery therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, around the time that I returned to my normal (4 day\/week) work schedule, I started feeling a bit down about life &#8211; and the main reason, I think, was that I was missing Avery. Sure, I spent a good amount of time with her &#8211; but it just never felt like enough, and it was rarely one-on-one time. (The latter is hard to get when you&#8217;ve also got a bubbly three-year-old bouncing around and demanding your attention.) And yes, we had our Fridays together, but there always seemed to be something other than &#8220;hang out&#8221; on our to-do list: errands, chores, doctor&#8217;s appointments, volunteering at Zoe&#8217;s school, etc. After one too many sob sessions with Q, he finally suggested that I forget all that other stuff, put off chores for another day, and focus on just <em>being<\/em> with Avery on my day off &#8211; which is exactly what I&#8217;ve been doing lately. And the result? I&#8217;m much happier than I was before, and I feel less stressed and overwhelmed by the day-to-day stuff (and believe me, with two little kids there&#8217;s <em>a lot <\/em>of day-to-day stuff). I guess you could say that Avery is good therapy for me!<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, around the time that I returned to my normal (4 day\/week) work schedule, I started feeling a bit down about life &#8211; and the main reason, I think, was that I was missing Avery. Sure, I spent a good amount of time with her &#8211; but it just never felt like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-43-two-kids-february-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668","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=3668"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4630,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668\/revisions\/4630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}