{"id":214,"date":"2013-06-18T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tamaragranthambooks.com\/2013\/06\/a-new-day\/"},"modified":"2015-11-13T15:20:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T15:20:48","slug":"a-new-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/a-new-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever woke up grumpy? I hate doing that&#8211;and today was one of those days. I&#8217;m trying to&nbsp;work my way out of it. Writing helps. Exercise helps. But when you&#8217;re in one of those moods, it&#8217;s so much harder to get motivated!<\/p>\n<p>At least I&#8217;ve got four sweet kiddos to help me out. The things that come out of their mouths crack me up. I love the way they think, and the innocent way that they view the world. <\/p>\n<p>Bridger has become my assistant diaper changer. I lay Baby Gabe on the floor and Bridger appears. His job is to open the tabs and pull the diaper open, and the most important part, to say &#8220;Oh, yuck! He made a burp.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called poop, sweetheart. Burps come out the other end.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think the stresses of tending my kiddos would make me grumpier, and yes, sometimes it does. But for now, I think I&#8217;ll enjoy them as much as I can, while I can.<\/p>\n<p>Which is weird, because now I&nbsp;figured out&nbsp;why I&#8217;m grumpy.<\/p>\n<p>It was my dream last night, of my kiddos growing up and me not remembering them being babies. My first waking thought was, <em>I&#8217;ve gotta take more pictures . . .<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m crying, because I love my babies so much. <\/p>\n<p>Alas, who knew motherhood would come with so many tears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever woke up grumpy? I hate doing that&#8211;and today was one of those days. I&#8217;m trying to&nbsp;work my way out of it. Writing helps. Exercise helps. But when you&#8217;re in one of those moods, it&#8217;s so much harder to get motivated! At least I&#8217;ve got four sweet kiddos to help me out. The [&hellip;]<\/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-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}