{"id":7938,"date":"2011-03-15T09:26:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T17:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=7938"},"modified":"2011-03-15T09:26:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T17:26:58","slug":"special-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=7938","title":{"rendered":"Special club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two good friends (moms of two of Avery’s playmates) are due next month with their second child; one of them told me yesterday that she’s starting to feel really sad\/guilty about her first and the fact that this little girl soon won’t be the (only) most important thing in her parents’ life. I totally get it, I told her: I experienced these feelings<\/a> myself, and I remember doing lots of mommy-and-me activities with Zoe right before Avery’s arrival, in an effort to soak up the last of our “alone” time together. <\/p>\n

It’s true, I told my friend, that her daughter’s life is about to drastically change – just as Zoe’s did – but it will actually be for the better<\/em>. My girls get so much joy from one another that I can’t imagine them not having one another, and I have long ago let go of the sad\/guilt feelings I had about Zoe. (And I’ve even stopped<\/a> feeling so sad about Avery being the on-the-sidelines kid<\/a>; she gets more than enough good stuff from her sister to make up for it!)<\/p>\n

Going from a family of three to four is one of the best things that has ever happened to me – despite the work and the (more-than-ocassional) stress. I can’t wait for more of my girlfriends to join this club.<\/p>\n

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

Two good friends (moms of two of Avery’s playmates) are due next month with their second child; one of them told me yesterday that she’s starting to feel really sad\/guilty about her first and the fact that this little girl soon won’t be the (only) most important thing in her parents’ life. I totally get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-56-two-kids-march-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7938","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=7938"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7947,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7938\/revisions\/7947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}