{"id":276,"date":"2010-11-29T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2010-11-29T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T18:33:00","slug":"the-couch-hustle-a-mommy-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Couch Hustle&#8217; a Mommy Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TPP4gtzo-JI\/AAAAAAAAJ44\/SeYmMuFQ4nc\/s1600\/DSC06425b.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TPP4gtzo-JI\/AAAAAAAAJ44\/SeYmMuFQ4nc\/s320\/DSC06425b.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545048807158904978\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>(The sweet view from my sick bed\/couch.)<\/div>\n<p>Just got out of bed an hour ago, around 11:30.  Correction, got off the couch an hour ago.  I am sick.  Feeling awful.  All I wanted to do was sleep today.<\/p>\n<p>Up at six in spite of my cold.  Got the dog walked, big kids to the school bus and the husband off to work; then raced back to the couch, turning all the lights off in the house on the way so I could crash.  An hour later the little ones started to emerge from their beds and so the &#8216;couch hustle&#8217; began.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;couch hustle&#8217; is a mommy dance I am very familiar with.  It is a sick day dance that goes something like this&#8230; I jump up (groggily) and hand each little one a banana and a piece of honey toast I had made ahead and put under a bowl to keep warm then I hit the couch again.  When Baby boy gets stuck on his chair I jump up again, solve it and return to the couch.  When Little Woman can&#8217;t reach the crayons and is screaming about it I jump up again, solve it and once again return to the couch.  This song and dance went on all morning.<\/p>\n<p>I know it sounds like a hectic way to nap but if you are a mommy you take what you can get.  I really feel so much better for it already.  Getting in mini naps all morning is a small victory, even if I am never truly asleep&#8230; if you are a mom you probably know what that means&#8230; Now DON&#8217;T ask what my house looks like, I am on a sick day!<\/p>\n<p>TTFN<br \/><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The sweet view from my sick bed\/couch.) Just got out of bed an hour ago, around 11:30. Correction, got off the couch an hour ago. I am sick. Feeling awful. All I wanted to do was sleep today. Up at six in spite of my cold. Got the dog walked, big kids to the school [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"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=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}