{"id":7368,"date":"2011-04-27T11:55:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T19:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=7368"},"modified":"2011-04-27T11:55:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T19:55:53","slug":"awful-awful-awful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=7368","title":{"rendered":"Awful, awful, awful?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a very memorable line in a very not<\/em>-memorable movie that Q and I saw a few months ago. In The Back-Up Plan, a young father is describing parenthood to someone without kids. “It’s awful, awful, awful, awful,” he said. “Then a small moment happens that’s so magical – that makes it all worthwhile.” <\/p>\n

Why has this line stuck with me? Because it’s so true. Okay, I don’t agree that parenting is awful<\/em>, but it does have its moments – like when Zoe gets so angry that she calls one of us names, when Avery throws a fit and tosses food on the floor at dinner, or when both girls are grumpy\/whiny\/extra clingy at the same time. (All of these things have happened within the last week.) The other day I got so frustrated that I announced to Q that I had had it – “I’m just going to get in the car and drive away,” I told him. (Of course I didn’t.)<\/p>\n

And those “magical” moments? I get those, too – like one recent, brilliant afternoon when the girls and I were listening to music and doing art projects together (and I felt like I didn’t have a care in the world), when Zoe one day told me – out of the blue – that she was going to love me forever, and when I opened my eyes this morning to Avery’s round little face about two inches from mine. (“Ma-ma!” she said excitedly.) It’s times like these, as the guy said, that make the bad stuff worth it.<\/p>\n

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

There’s a very memorable line in a very not-memorable movie that Q and I saw a few months ago. In The Back-Up Plan, a young father is describing parenthood to someone without kids. “It’s awful, awful, awful, awful,” he said. “Then a small moment happens that’s so magical – that makes it all worthwhile.” Why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-57-two-kids-april-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368","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=7368"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8419,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions\/8419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}