{"id":635,"date":"2009-07-28T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=635"},"modified":"2009-07-28T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T12:47:00","slug":"the-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"The Ride!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/Sm9Ng_pt7cI\/AAAAAAAACOA\/gtFfXPU1ZG8\/s1600-h\/DSC_0418.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 351px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/Sm9Ng_pt7cI\/AAAAAAAACOA\/gtFfXPU1ZG8\/s400\/DSC_0418.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363590910459112898\" \/><\/a><br \/>The ride of the teenage years has been nothing short of adventurous!  I never know what ride it will be today&#8230; is it Space Mountain&#8230; where it is a constant of ups and downs that you are kept in the dark all day?<\/p>\n<p>Or is it the Bumper Cars&#8230; you just keep bumping heads all day?<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe if I am lucky we will be in the paddle boats&#8230; working together nicely and smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>It can be very tiring.  Somedays I just don&#8217;t care.  I really love them but I am not going to try anymore tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Somedays can be just plain funny.  Well if I didn&#8217;t think it was funny, I&#8217;d no doubt be balling!<\/p>\n<p>Hormones.  What a scary thing!  That is why God gave sweet delicious smelling babies to hook us.  Then after years of snuggling, loving and being the best thing to them&#8230; WHAM&#8230;  it changes.<\/p>\n<p>Wow!<\/p>\n<p>I love my boys.  Yes, even the teenagers.  I wish I COULD kiss it better.  I wish I could get close enough for that snuggle.<br \/>Then it is 11 p.m.  In bounces one, &#8220;I am NOT TIRED!  I am going to lie here for a while.&#8221; <br \/>This drives Sanj NUTS&#8230;. who is not a night owl like the rest of  his family&#8230; and just wants his space and sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I am actually going to go to Chapters to look up some books on the teenager and the hormones that invaded them.<\/p>\n<p>But while I complain of the woes of my 13 and 14 year old&#8230; I look out my window and see this picture.<\/p>\n<p>My heart swells (literally) with pride and love as I watch my oldest cutting the grass with his youngest, taking time to protect his hearing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>How I love my boys.  Do they drive me nuts?  Yes.. 99% of the time!  Does that 1 % make up for the 99%?<\/p>\n<p>Yes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ride of the teenage years has been nothing short of adventurous! I never know what ride it will be today&#8230; is it Space Mountain&#8230; where it is a constant of ups and downs that you are kept in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=635\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635"}],"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=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}