{"id":6315,"date":"2011-08-03T06:24:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T11:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=6315"},"modified":"2011-08-03T06:46:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T11:46:14","slug":"is-it-really-only-17-days-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=6315","title":{"rendered":"Is it really only 15 days away?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, reality check today.\u00a0 I went into work for a few hours to &#8220;get a head start&#8221; before the beginning of the school year rush.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t help.\u00a0 I&#8217;m now just as far behind, and now I <em>know<\/em> how far behind I actually am.\u00a0 I was oblivious before today.\u00a0 Of course, this happens every year.\u00a0 I panic. I dread.\u00a0 I get excited.\u00a0 I get scared.\u00a0 I get emotional. I get ready.\u00a0 I start nesting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yesterday, I allowed McCanless to rent <em>two<\/em> movies on Netflix while I cleaned out my bedside table drawers and my closet.\u00a0 (I know, I know, &#8220;Mother of the Year Award&#8221; does not go to me this year-I guess I should have made her work on her summer reading.)\u00a0 Oh well.\u00a0 Mary Clare busied herself for hours with a trunk full of old dance costumes I pulled out of the attic. (You do what you &#8216;gotta do!) I&#8217;ve organized bookshelves, bins and bookbags; gotten rid of &#8220;too tight&#8221; clothes, old toys and books; bought pencils and paper; I&#8217;ve re-organized the playroom\/ new homework study room.\u00a0 We registered at dance and I&#8217;ve penciled in all important August dates.\u00a0 Ready or not, here it comes!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 15 days, I&#8217;ll have a 4Ker and a 2nd grader at Thomas Hart Academy!\u00a0 Wow!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6321\" title=\"A little Blue Chickadee\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo6-614x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo6-614x1024.jpg 614w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo6-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo6.jpg 1318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So, Ms. Chure, are <em>you<\/em> ready?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, reality check today.\u00a0 I went into work for a few hours to &#8220;get a head start&#8221; before the beginning of the school year rush.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t help.\u00a0 I&#8217;m now just as far behind, and now I know how far behind I actually am.\u00a0 I was oblivious before today.\u00a0 Of course, this happens every year.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6315"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6323,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315\/revisions\/6323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}