{"id":30,"date":"2012-03-29T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2012-03-29T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T14:21:00","slug":"slowing-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Slowing It Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>    <\/h3>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-QXEklyrPQA0\/T3O3hh5qwdI\/AAAAAAAAOWc\/4mmCDBWgT14\/s1600\/IMG_1499crop.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-QXEklyrPQA0\/T3O3hh5qwdI\/AAAAAAAAOWc\/4mmCDBWgT14\/s400\/IMG_1499crop.JPG\" width=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Had one of those days, well almost&#8230; I managed to slow it all  down and cut myself some slack just in time.\u00a0 Disorder was the perfect  word to describe how my brain woke up yesterday, maybe it never completely  did wake up!\u00a0 I messed up a planned play date and just couldn&#8217;t get my  self caught up.<\/p>\n<p>Finally I realised it was &#8216;one of those days&#8217; and so I STOPPED trying to  run the ship as I always do and put it on coast&#8230;\u00a0 Stopped worrying  about the play date failure, the dishes, the floors, the filthy play  room and all the rest&#8230; stepped away from my to-do list&#8230; and then my littlest man and I went for a walk instead.<\/p>\n<p>Sunshine and spring, greeted us.\u00a0 We marched, at a very three year old like  leisurely pace, down to the corner thrift store and puttered through  there.\u00a0 Stopped to say hello to the bearded dragons at the community  center and applauded for Bonny (of Bonny and Clyde) who is now expecting  EGGS&#8230; BABIES!\u00a0 We then slowly walked back home, examining every newly  thawed rock, slightly frozen over puddle and crack in side walk.\u00a0  Hoping most of the way home, we where fully prepared when we found a  collection of freshly chalked out hopscotch sets (thank you neighborhood  child) and even Mommy had her turn.\u00a0 We found our yard and played in  the last of the snow in the back.<\/p>\n<p>Tea with my friend worked out&#8230; still managed to babysit my niece later  that day (for a couple hours) and even managed to introduce my crew to my newest niece.<\/p>\n<p>Supper, day before last, was wild salmon and an amazing salad&#8230;last night&#8230; I  knew better then to try and just threw beans, wieners and toast at the  kids.\u00a0 Still a success in my books if it means we don&#8217;t order pizza or  something even more pricey.<\/p>\n<p>While I hope my head is back in the game today, and I stop spilling  everything I pour for myself, I am especially thankful for a lovely day  when it was shaping up to be &#8216;one of those days&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>TTFN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had one of those days, well almost&#8230; I managed to slow it all down and cut myself some slack just in time.\u00a0 Disorder was the perfect word to describe how my brain woke up yesterday, maybe it never completely did wake up!\u00a0 I messed up a planned play date and just couldn&#8217;t get my self [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,15,14,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"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=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}