{"id":1177,"date":"2010-08-05T15:36:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T22:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2010-08-05T15:36:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T22:36:50","slug":"bad-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=1177","title":{"rendered":"Bad Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, today has been horrible. I don&#8217;t know how much sleep I got last night but it wasn&#8217;t much, and then Robin exhausted my reserves early by <em>whining<\/em> and <em>whining<\/em> and <em>whining<\/em> and then for a change SCREAMING and SCREAMING and SCREAMING. Eventually he wore himself down too and fell into a nap, at which point I thought to myself, <em>Oh thank God, I&#8217;ll get to sleep for a bit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That was exactly the point that Davy woke up. <em>Okay<\/em>, I thought, <em>I&#8217;ll nurse him and put him back down and we&#8217;ll all sleep for a bit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I nursed him. I put him back down. He cried. I nursed him again on the other side and put him back down. He woke up and cried. I burped him and cuddled him. He squirmed and fussed. I was so tired I started to fall asleep in the thirty-second intervals between his cries. I had little thirty-second dreams. They always ended with waking up to a fussy baby.<\/p>\n<p>An hour and a half later, Robin woke up and I had a bit of a meltdown that ended with me scaring Sam badly enough over the phone that he offered to come home right away. I didn&#8217;t take him up on it; instead I am pouring out my woes to the Internet while Robin crawls around under my chair whining &#8220;Mommy, Mommy, Mommy&#8221; and Davy lies on the bed still fussing.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I think the fact that I haven&#8217;t slapped duct tape over both their mouths and thrown them in the closet makes me the World&#8217;s Best Mom, but there&#8217;s still <em>hours<\/em> left in the day, so nobody should go out and buy me the mug just yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, today has been horrible. I don&#8217;t know how much sleep I got last night but it wasn&#8217;t much, and then Robin exhausted my reserves early by whining and whining and whining and then for a change SCREAMING and SCREAMING and SCREAMING. Eventually he wore himself down too and fell into a nap, at which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}