{"id":424,"date":"2007-01-09T13:53:02","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T19:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/2007\/01\/09\/my-self-esteem\/"},"modified":"2007-01-09T13:53:02","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T19:53:02","slug":"my-self-esteem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"My self esteem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s sometimes hard to have any any kind of self esteem when you have kids.<\/p>\n<p>For example&#8230;the other day the kids were watching tv and a big long commercial for Nutrisystems came on.  The kids watched, fascinated by the weight loss stories, and my lovely daughter said, &#8220;Mom, why don&#8217;t you do that?  If your order now you get a weeks worth of food for free?!&#8221;  Thank you, child.  I know I&#8217;m fat, why don&#8217;t you just come out and say it?<\/p>\n<p>Then today when I was sticking to my resolution to walk at least a mile every day, the small one came down and cried &#8220;Mom, don&#8217;t walk!&#8221; over and over.  You know how hard it is to keep walking on the old treadmill with a 3-year old screaming  the whole time?  Well, I did my mile, but only one.  And I had to keep putting him on the couch, since he wouldn&#8217;t go back upstairs and watch Arthur (which I turned on just for him).<\/p>\n<p>And just a few minutes ago, my almost 6 year old said to me, &#8220;Mom,  you&#8217;re weird.&#8221;  Thanks honey.  Now go and pick up your backpack before I throw it out the front door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s sometimes hard to have any any kind of self esteem when you have kids. For example&#8230;the other day the kids were watching tv and a big long commercial for Nutrisystems came on. The kids watched, fascinated by the weight loss stories, and my lovely daughter said, &#8220;Mom, why don&#8217;t you do that? If your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}