{"id":4282,"date":"2014-05-07T07:56:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T11:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=4282"},"modified":"2014-05-07T07:56:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T11:56:27","slug":"countdown-to-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/07\/countdown-to-calm\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to Calm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>20 days of school left for Honeybun and I couldn\u2019t be more excited! \u00a0While many parents loathe summer vacation and having their children home all the time, I\u2019m looking forward to the break and being able to slow down our family for a while.\u00a0 Between my work schedule, hubby\u2019s recent and upcoming travel schedule, gymnastics, ballet and school, often I feel like we are just getting by, making it through the day and don\u2019t have the time to enjoy each other.\u00a0 There are a million reasons I\u2019m excited for the school year to be over, but here are just a few of them:<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Girls getting to sleep in past 6:30<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No more having to scrape together a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/28\/boxed-lunch\/\">sack lunch<\/a> out what I happen to have in my fridge<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMAG0237.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4283\" alt=\"IMAG0237\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMAG0237-612x1024.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMAG0237-612x1024.jpg 612w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMAG0237-300x502.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMAG0237-600x1003.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMAG0237-150x250.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMAG0237-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMAG0237-1000x1672.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMAG0237-390x652.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMAG0237.jpg 1952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a> Getting to put Doodle to nap when he\u2019s tired rather than keeping him up because it\u2019s almost school pickup time<\/p>\n<p>4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not having to do ten walks to school and back when hubby is out of town<\/p>\n<p>5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Being able to go to the park whenever we want<\/p>\n<p>6)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not having to schlep everyone to school at 7:15 in the morning when hubby has an early meeting<\/p>\n<p>7)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Being able to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/28\/pool-time\/\">swim <\/a>whenever we want<\/p>\n<p>8)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not stressing about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/09\/laundry-woes\/\">laundry <\/a>and having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/01\/a-uniformed-education\/\">school clothes<\/a> clean (or clothes that Honeybun wants to wear)<\/p>\n<p>9)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Having the time to play, read, create and love each other<\/p>\n<p>10) \u00a0 \u00a0 No <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/03\/parentwork\/\">Homework<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11) \u00a0 \u00a0 Getting to do whatever we want, whenever we want!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 days of school left for Honeybun and I couldn\u2019t be more excited! \u00a0While many parents loathe summer vacation and having their children home all the time, I\u2019m looking forward to the break and being able to slow down our family for a while.\u00a0 Between my work schedule, hubby\u2019s recent and upcoming travel schedule, gymnastics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[224,226,124,180,227,85,223,225],"class_list":["post-4282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","tag-break","tag-free-play","tag-homework","tag-lunch","tag-relaxing","tag-school","tag-summer","tag-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4284,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions\/4284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}