{"id":97,"date":"2011-05-08T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/all-in-days-work\/"},"modified":"2018-04-21T17:22:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T17:22:26","slug":"all-in-days-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/all-in-days-work\/","title":{"rendered":"All in a Day\u2019s Work."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So a few weeks ago I was trying to decide whether or not I should volunteer for the steering team of my MOPS group (that\u2019s Mothers of Preschoolers \u2013 and if you are a mama of little ones you should DEFINITELY join!).&#160; Vann and I were talking about it and he said, \u201cWell, you ARE an experienced Mom now.&#160; You really do have something to contribute!\u201d  Huh.&#160; Experienced, you say??&#160; Sometimes \u2013 no wait \u2013 MOST of the time I feel like I\u2019m barely hanging on.&#160; So to say that I\u2019m an \u201cexperienced\u201d Mom now seems very foreign.&#160;   And so, in honor of Mother\u2019s Day, I give you:  <strong><u>Amanda\u2019s Do\u2019s and Don\u2019ts of Expert Motherhood<\/u><\/strong>  1.&#160; Do let your 3 year old make her own breakfast.&#160; Then you can sleep a little longer.  2.&#160; Don\u2019t EVER, whatever you do, be on time for ANYTHING.&#160; Always leave your house with only 5 minutes to spare.&#160; Really.&#160; It makes the day go so much smoother.  3.&#160; Do throw Nemo fruit snacks and M &amp; M\u2019s at your child.&#160; All day long.&#160; Just to get them to STOP bothering you.  4.&#160; Do forget about ever having the time to read a book.&#160; Give up that dream, sista.  5.&#160; Or, just get your magazine reading fix in while your children pummel each other.&#160; Every so often you can look up and yell, \u201cStop that!\u201d or \u201cSeriously??\u201d just to get your point across.  6.&#160; Do beware the witching hour(s) between 3 pm and 5:30 pm.&#160; These will seem like the longest hours of your life, but I promise, if you have another Mom to drink with, the time will pass by much quicker.  7.&#160; Do invest in cute baseball caps.  8.&#160; Do leave your Mom \u201ctrappings\u201d all over your house.&#160; Really.&#160; Your husband will LOVE it.&#160; That includes but is not limited to: Hoodies, Flip Flops, your Blackberry, and your iPod which you are constantly uploading with new Disney music.  9.&#160; Don\u2019t let your stash of emergency junk food get low.&#160; Sometimes all it takes to feel more in control is to stand in your pantry and binge on chocolate-covered Peeps.  10.&#160; And finally, Do take a deep breath and take it all in \u2013 because the days are long but the years are short, as \u201cthey\u201d say.&#160; Someday you will actually be able to go to the potty in peace \u2013 but where\u2019s the fun in that??  Happy Mother\u2019s Day.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a few weeks ago I was trying to decide whether or not I should volunteer for the steering team of my MOPS group (that\u2019s Mothers of Preschoolers \u2013 and if you are a mama of little ones you should DEFINITELY join!).&#160; Vann and I were talking about it and he said, \u201cWell, you ARE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}