{"id":548,"date":"2009-04-02T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=548"},"modified":"2009-04-02T10:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T14:42:00","slug":"normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Normal&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/SdTlfh5kxOI\/AAAAAAAABhY\/LMveMMfCSUM\/s1600-h\/Photo+1186.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/SdTlfh5kxOI\/AAAAAAAABhY\/LMveMMfCSUM\/s400\/Photo+1186.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320129389669958882\" \/><\/a><br \/>Last night was quite a evening.  It was full of &#8220;discussing&#8221; behaviors and attitudes of my older cherubs.  It was full of taking away privileges and defining what a privilege is.  <\/p>\n<p>It was not a good night.  Nothing matter much to my son except his friends.  When Facebook and phones are taken away&#8230; you are out of the loop.  That sucks and matters to a 13 year old.  <\/p>\n<p>Well as Sammy and I were &#8220;chatting loudly&#8221; he says&#8230; &#8221; <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Mommy!  I am just trying to make you NORMALER<\/span>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No I didn&#8217;t laugh outright but was defused.<\/p>\n<p>Me&#8230; Normal?  I have been called many things but never normal!  <\/p>\n<p>I used to wish to be normal&#8230;. but only recently in the last year realized that is never going to happen.  I am OK with that.  It took someone to call me quirky to wake me up.  I did not think that was a compliment.  I was actually kind of offended.  Sanj says, you are different.  You are not like everyone else.  Hum&#8230; I am special.<\/p>\n<p>I am o.k. with that.<\/p>\n<p>Normal&#8230; my poor son is in for a rude awakening.  There is nothing normal about me or our family.<\/p>\n<p>Oh dear&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was quite a evening. It was full of &#8220;discussing&#8221; behaviors and attitudes of my older cherubs. It was full of taking away privileges and defining what a privilege is. It was not a good night. Nothing matter much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=548\">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":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}