{"id":3611,"date":"2014-02-11T10:05:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T15:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=3611"},"modified":"2019-10-29T12:17:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T16:17:49","slug":"another-winter-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=3611","title":{"rendered":"Another Winter Day\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s another day, another school day much to the disappointment of my youngest two. &nbsp;How they dislike school! &nbsp;Every morning Josh tells me he&#8217;s not feeling well. &nbsp;Every school day morning that is\u2026 he&#8217;s a homebody. &nbsp;He would love to be my sidekick all day along. &nbsp;And Zach would rather be playing with his buddies, hanging out rather than being at school. &nbsp;\ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Frankly, it&#8217;s exhausting. &nbsp;The hardest part of my day is 7 am-8:15 am \u2026 I feel like I should tape myself\u2026 <em>Hurry up guys, Let&#8217;s go! &nbsp;Eat something. &nbsp;Here&#8217;s your lunch. &nbsp;Sock! You need socks. Where&#8217;s your backpack? &nbsp;<\/em>And then finally, when they are out the door\u2026 I am yelling,<em> &#8220;Love you, have a good day!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sigh. &nbsp;I think our family, my boys, live for summer. &nbsp;I love being with them (despite the fighting and annoyances that come with us all together). &nbsp;I love taking them on trips. &nbsp;Road trips. &nbsp;It doesn&#8217;t matter where we go, as long as it&#8217;s away from home and the crazy rat race that is life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maybe the winter is finally getting to us\u2026 it&#8217;s been cold, very cold and the boys are exhausted. &nbsp;We need downtime. &nbsp;Monday is Family Day\u2026 a made-up holiday but I&#8217;ve never been so glad to know that a 3 day weekend is upon us shortly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This isn&#8217;t a happy post, is it? &nbsp;Oye! &nbsp;OK well, I can tell you about Josh yesterday. &nbsp;He had me grinning most of the evening. &nbsp;Josh loves so HUGE! &nbsp;It&#8217;s really a privilege to be loved that like. &nbsp;I am always thinking\u2026 is it going to go away? &nbsp;We went to Zach&#8217;s game out of town. Usually, I wouldn&#8217;t have gone, knowing we would get in the way to late but we did, since &nbsp;Zach asked me to come. Through the night Josh just kept asking random questions! &nbsp;Like \u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>How many people do you think are in the world?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Do you think there is the letter R in the truck somewhere?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Do you know that photosynthesis is?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>I&#8217;m so glad poo doesn&#8217;t come from our mouth. &nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In between his questions and chatter, I&#8217;d get a &#8220;Mommy I love you so much!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I know that God gave me this child that loves so hard. &nbsp;Sometimes it hurts me, his love. &nbsp;How I hope he doesn&#8217;t lose this spark he has. &nbsp;Sometimes the boys will say,<em> &#8220;Josh your 8 years old, you are so weird!&#8221; &nbsp;<\/em>And the thing is, Josh embraces his weirdness!!! I love that!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0275.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3612\" src=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0275.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0275\" width=\"6016\" height=\"4000\" srcset=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0275.jpg 6016w, http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0275-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0275-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 6016px) 100vw, 6016px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tomorrow I am off to Camp Medeba with Zach and the 5-6th graders. &nbsp;Oye! &nbsp;Hope I don&#8217;t freeze. &nbsp;I&#8217;m much happier a homebody in the winter. &nbsp;I am not too great at winter activities. But\u2026 I&#8217;m so excited about going with Zach and hanging out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll have pics and lots to say when I am back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another day, another school day much to the disappointment of my youngest two. &nbsp;How they dislike school! &nbsp;Every morning Josh tells me he&#8217;s not feeling well. &nbsp;Every school day morning that is\u2026 he&#8217;s a homebody. &nbsp;He would love to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=3611\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,1,10,32,13,140,15,5,11,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4754,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions\/4754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}