{"id":148,"date":"2011-08-25T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=148"},"modified":"2011-08-25T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:15:00","slug":"and-summer-holiday-comes-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"And Summer Holiday Comes To An End"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-YgWNh9u2lIk\/TlauIt3Vc2I\/AAAAAAAAMp4\/YR6eT4PlznM\/s1600\/SSPX1160b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 199px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-YgWNh9u2lIk\/TlauIt3Vc2I\/AAAAAAAAMp4\/YR6eT4PlznM\/s320\/SSPX1160b.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644890647729369954\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>(Hello handsome, we are going to be seeing a lot more of each other this coming year!  It&#8217;s you and me baby!)<br \/>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>This is it&#8230; the last week off before school&#8230; oh my heart  twists in knots this time each year.  I am usually tired enough to be  thankful for school starting up and the break during the day but I am  always a little unhappy at the thought of having less of my kids  because, lets face it, despite how bad they CAN be they are really sweet  kids and I enjoy being with them and like them AS PEOPLE.<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-RQHWYTFdSVU\/TlaoJJyzCgI\/AAAAAAAAMpA\/iVpdYqF6I1w\/s1600\/SSPX1153.jpg\"><br \/>\n<br \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-EdCvvIw6xgU\/TlauJUbugnI\/AAAAAAAAMqA\/rn7pAhNRPvA\/s1600\/SSPX1152b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-EdCvvIw6xgU\/TlauJUbugnI\/AAAAAAAAMqA\/rn7pAhNRPvA\/s320\/SSPX1152b.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644890658082554482\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I know watching my youngest daughter start her kindergarten journey is going to be the biggest heartache for me this year.  My older two  really enjoy school and thrive with the social life they get there but <span><span>Dannan<\/span><\/span>&#8230;  she is starting out and who knows how it will all be for her&#8230; all I  know is she has been my shadow right up until&#8230; now&#8230; next week&#8230; and  is my helper and chatty <span><span>kathy<\/span><\/span> and <span><span>snuggly<\/span><\/span> bud at nap time so&#8230; phew so perhaps I am trying to make myself cry with this&#8230; moving on!<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-family:georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\" >This   was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the   spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the   ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop   with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and   flower and human shoulders.<br \/>\n<br \/>~Sarah <span><span>Orne<\/span><\/span> <span><span>Jewett<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>That  all being said, I am always ready for adventure, enjoy life as it moves  and flows so I don&#8217;t look back to sad with regrets at wasted time&#8230; so  I am really pumped about more time with my littlest man and more time  to work on my library career again and&#8230; MORE TIME:)<\/p>\n<p><span><span>TTFN<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Hello handsome, we are going to be seeing a lot more of each other this coming year! It&#8217;s you and me baby!) This is it&#8230; the last week off before school&#8230; oh my heart twists in knots this time each year. I am usually tired enough to be thankful for school starting up and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}