{"id":1087,"date":"2009-12-21T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2009-12-21T04:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T04:59:00","slug":"glazed-doughnut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/glazed-doughnut\/","title":{"rendered":"Glazed Doughnut"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Waaaazzzzup!?!?<\/p>\n

I have a few articles I need to write, but I haven’t had the inspiration. I completely slacked out today, just eating holiday leftovers (sliced ham, potatoes, jell-o, mac\/cheese, pecan pie), though we did make it to church on time with the whole family today. Every time it gets a little easier.<\/p>\n

My mom is in town for the week (not over Christmas, though). She’s had her usual run of insights on how the household could be managed better. I am older now and able to take it at face value. Your parents really do get smarter as time goes on. She’s really good with the baby and that has been a great help, especially since poor Willow has been under the weather.
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For my part, I am recharged. Thank goodness for Sunday. Otherwise I would work myself to death. Church was nothing short of inspiring. We’ve got a well-practiced choir and they put on quite a Christmas program. I was full of my usual cheer, glad-handing and back-slapping.<\/p>\n

I need to be a better father. I need to spend more time with my kids. Not just be present, but actually interact with them more, and more meaningfully. Not to say that I think I’m doing a bad<\/span> job, or don’t interact, just that I could be doing better.<\/p>\n

When I come home from work, if I’m late and arrive around bedtime, I tend to charge in and get the kids all revved up. They don’t need that. I need to get home on time, earlier, more consistently. That way by the time they are ready for bed, I’m all settled down as well. I’m a pretty high octane parent and my kids have definitely picked up my energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Waaaazzzzup!?!? I have a few articles I need to write, but I haven’t had the inspiration. I completely slacked out today, just eating holiday leftovers (sliced ham, potatoes, jell-o, mac\/cheese, pecan pie), though we did make it to church on time with the whole family today. Every time it gets a little easier. My mom […]<\/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-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}