{"id":424,"date":"2008-05-13T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tessa.datdec.com\/wordpress\/?p=424"},"modified":"2008-05-13T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T21:33:00","slug":"recluse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Recluse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking about becoming a recluse.<br \/>\n    Some days it just seems like it would be easier. We went out<br \/>\n    for a walk today with two friends and their kids (3 moms, 3<br \/>\n    tots, 3 babes) and it was nice&#8230; mostly. Lex and Eve were both<br \/>\n    sans naps, but that was the only way I was able to get out of<br \/>\n    the house. I tried for an hour to get them to nap, but when my<br \/>\n    friend called to see if we wanted to walk I gave up and headed<br \/>\n    out. I figured I&#8217;d just get them extra tired for an early<br \/>\n    bedtime. Instead the final leg of the walk involved me carrying<br \/>\n    Eve and chasing Lex then forcing him into the stroller with Eve<br \/>\n    precariously balanced in my arm. He was exhausted and sooooo<br \/>\n    dirty! We picked up Alan and our shiny old car (got the Saturn<br \/>\n    serviced and cleaned and boy is it nice now!) and headed home.<br \/>\n    Bath was crazy, dinner was short and crazy and bedtime was long<br \/>\n    and drawn out with lots of tears from both of them. So much for<br \/>\n    an early bedtime! Days, naps, and bedtime usually go smoother<br \/>\n    when we don&#8217;t go anywhere further than the yard. Now that it&#8217;s<br \/>\n    summer maybe I&#8217;ll just be a serious home body and give up the<br \/>\n    little remaining social life I have&#8230;. hmmm&#8230; that might put<br \/>\n    a damper on my Pampered Chef party plans though! :)<\/p>\n<p>Pics: <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">(ok, the batteries in my camera<br \/>\n    were dead so I wasn&#8217;t able to take any real pictures, but just<br \/>\n    close your eyes and visualize these two scenes I would have<br \/>\n    captured)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; Lex, in his<br \/>\n    orange long sleeve shirt, blue jeans and matching hat and<br \/>\n    Crocs, holding hands with Josie in a pink dress and blond hair,<br \/>\n    holding hands with Dylan in shorts, tshirt,and a baseball cap.<br \/>\n    The three of them walked, ran, and played like this for several<br \/>\n    minutes. I was behind them and it would have made a really cool<br \/>\n    picture.<\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211; Lex and Josie sitting in<br \/>\n    our double stroller with the giant flexible sun shade pulled<br \/>\n    down over them and just their little blond heads poking out the<br \/>\n    top. Lex had it tucked under their necks like a blanket. Very<br \/>\n    cute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking about becoming a recluse. Some days it just seems like it would be easier. We went out for a walk today with two friends and their kids (3 moms, 3 tots, 3 babes) and it was nice&#8230; mostly. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=424\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}