{"id":615,"date":"2007-07-26T14:59:33","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T20:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/2007\/07\/26\/a-few-things\/"},"modified":"2007-07-26T14:59:33","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T20:59:33","slug":"a-few-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"A few things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few things for you today.<\/p>\n<p>First, I had no idea we would get so many comments to enter the little contest.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 If you came by just to sign up, I hope you&#8217;ll stop by again and see what we&#8217;re up to.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I will have to cut off comments at 8 am Friday morning, and then we&#8217;ll randomly draw for winners.<\/p>\n<p>Second, I can&#8217;t wait until John is 4.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping this 3 year old attitude problem will go away when he&#8217;s 4.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Today we had a screaming kicking fit that ended in him screaming &#8220;Go Away!&#8221; over and over and over again from his bed while I sat and calmly started reading the 7th Harry Potter book that was sitting on the floor until he gave up the fight to be grumpy and fell asleep for a MUCH needed nap.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 And I&#8217;m not even sure what the whole fit was about.<\/p>\n<p>Thirdly, I got my hair cut yesterday, and if I do say so myself, it looks so cute!\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 But then my beloved hairstylist, who has cut my hair for about 12 years now (off and on) told me that she&#8217;s getting out of the hair styling business.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Her husband is no longer a struggling teacher or a starving student, he&#8217;s a lawyer, and she doesn&#8217;t need to have a job anymore.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 She&#8217;d rather spend more time with her kids.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to try to convince her that I only come 4 times a year, and if needed I&#8217;ll cut it back to twice a year if she&#8217;ll just please continue to do my highlights.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 But if that doesn&#8217;t work, I&#8217;ll have to go out and find someone I trust to cut my hair.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Humph.<\/p>\n<p>And lastly, Robin took her kids and two of my kids camping last night, and they had such fun.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 They got to sleep in her newest Vanagan, and how much fun is that?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Cool!\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe the little kids can sleep out there tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Summer&#8217;s screaming by, and there&#8217;s less than a month until the kids go back to school.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I hope I can think of enough fun things to do to fill that time, and that we all enjoy the last month of summer together.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 (There&#8217;s also less than 5 months until Christmas, too!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few things for you today. First, I had no idea we would get so many comments to enter the little contest.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 If you came by just to sign up, I hope you&#8217;ll stop by again and see what we&#8217;re up to.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I will have to cut off comments at 8 am Friday morning, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,4,7,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615"}],"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=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}