{"id":6198,"date":"2014-10-16T07:16:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T11:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=6198"},"modified":"2016-01-18T16:25:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T21:25:43","slug":"6198","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/16\/6198\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Escapades"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have yet to establish any kind of real schedule or routine in life, but one thing has become a constant in our day: Doodle’s evening fussing.<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>From the time he wakes up from his afternoon nap until we sit down for dinner, he is a disaster. Even after nursing. Even after a snack. He just can’t handle it.<\/p>\n

He follows me around screaming, clinging to me, clawing at me. I try to distract him with toys or get the girls to help entertain him but he’s not interested.<\/p>\n

I can usually calm him down by taking him outside but we can’t stay outside all evening. He’ll usually calm down if I hold him but he’s getting big and heavy and if I sit with him, he flips. Plus I have things to do, like make dinner for the whole family. Including him.<\/p>\n

I find myself waiting anxiously to get the text from hubby that he’s finally coming home so I can start counting down the minutes. 35 of them.<\/p>\n

It’s these minutes when mommying is not just hard but overwhelming. \u00a0When I wish I was the kind of mommy who put her kids in public school, preschool, childcare so they could “learn” and I could have some time for myself.<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>But then we come to the morning time and everyone wakes up with a fresh head and better mood and I can see why it’s all worth it. \u00a0Why I keep them home with me and teach them myself. \u00a0And why I love being a mommy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have yet to establish any kind of real schedule or routine in life, but one thing has become a constant in our day: Doodle’s evening fussing. From the time he wakes up from his afternoon nap until we sit down for dinner, he is a disaster. Even after nursing. Even after a snack. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baby-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198","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=6198"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6206,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions\/6206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}