{"id":5951,"date":"2010-08-30T12:37:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T20:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=5951"},"modified":"2010-08-30T12:37:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T20:37:09","slug":"first-day-of-school-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=5951","title":{"rendered":"First day of school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After dropping off Zoe at school today (picture of her first day coming soon!), I walked past another mom who had just said good-bye to her child and was strolling out with her newborn. A lump formed in my throat, as I remembered Zoe&#8217;s first day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2878\">last Aug.<\/a> and thought, &#8220;That was me and Avery last year.&#8221; As sentimental as this time of year makes me about <em>Zoe<\/em>, Zoe&#8217;s school also makes me think about Avery, who was still very new (barely 10 weeks) when her big sister began. My routine &#8211; of getting Zoe to school while pushing Avery in her stroller, and then running errands or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2886\">working out<\/a> with Avery afterwards &#8211; was the same for many months &#8211; and it&#8217;s hard not to get emotional when thinking of how little Avery was back then.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, though Avery is a lot bigger these days (she can actually walk inside with me when we drop off\/pick up Zoe now), it&#8217;s all relative. And I know in a year or two &#8211; when Avery starts preschool &#8211; I&#8217;ll be sniffling over how little she was <em>this<\/em> year!<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After dropping off Zoe at school today (picture of her first day coming soon!), I walked past another mom who had just said good-bye to her child and was strolling out with her newborn. A lump formed in my throat, as I remembered Zoe&#8217;s first day last Aug. and thought, &#8220;That was me and Avery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-49-two-kids-august-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951","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=5951"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5961,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951\/revisions\/5961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}