{"id":4939,"date":"2008-07-09T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-04-04T14:58:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T14:58:34","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=4939","title":{"rendered":"And How is Your Summer Going?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>And How is Your Summer Going?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is the question of this time of year.  My answer&#8230;um, it&#8217;s going okay?  <\/p>\n<p>First off, I have to say that summer is harder than the school year is for our family.  Secondly, I have to say that this summer in particular has had some challenges.  Now, none of the challenges have been dire &#8212; but they&#8217;re not mundane, either.  Not really anything that I could ask my fellow mom friends about.  Those challenges plus a bunch of other assorted difficulties have made this summer *interesting*, so far.  <\/p>\n<p>I was explaining all of this to my friend, Eliza, the other day.  I gave her a run down of all of our doings\/happenings\/challenges&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Me:  Well, that&#8217;s about it.  I really don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m having such a hard time, really, I mean, taken separately, all of this doesn&#8217;t sound so bad.<br \/>\nEliza:  Yes, but, that&#8217;s kind a lot of stuff there, sweetie.  Like a ton of stuff.<br \/>\nMe:  It&#8217;s true, that stuff is heavy.<br \/>\nEliza:  I know it is.  And, I think that it&#8217;s about to smother you.<br \/>\nMe:  Yep.<\/p>\n<p>So, I guess that I have to move into anti-getting-smothered mode.  And, truthfully, it really depends on the day, my attitude, my boys&#8217; attitudes, etc.  For instance, today I felt much more hopeful than yesterday and definitely more hopeful than I did on Monday.  And, as soon as I admitted this to myself and began to feel actually happy about it all, I instantaneously got a crick in my neck.  Which means that my sense of humor is getting tested a little.  I think, though,  that my sense of humor is pretty tenacious.  Because it has to be.<\/p>\n<p>Alright.  Enough about me&#8230;how&#8217;s your summer going?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And How is Your Summer Going? This is the question of this time of year. My answer&#8230;um, it&#8217;s going okay? First off, I have to say that summer is harder than the school year is for our family. Secondly, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=4939\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}