{"id":150,"date":"2007-01-18T08:25:04","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T13:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/18\/when-birthdays-become-a-little-less-special\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:10:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:10:01","slug":"when-birthdays-become-a-little-less-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/18\/when-birthdays-become-a-little-less-special\/","title":{"rendered":"When Birthdays become a little less special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So does it happen when you have kids, or when you hit your thirties?\u00a0 Somewhere a long the line it becomes just another day.\u00a0 And for those of us in our late thirties we don&#8217;t really want to call attention to each passing year.\u00a0 Or do we?\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to still get excited about your birthday?\u00a0 To actually remember that it is our birthday?\u00a0 To have a cup a coffee waiting when you wake up and kids that are good and able to get out the door to school without whining, complaining, or being difficult?\u00a0 Oh yeah, that must be it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just like very other day.<\/p>\n<p>Achh, this is sounding like a pity party (although hey at least that would be a party!)\u00a0 It&#8217;s time to make some coffee, get dressed so I don&#8217;t face the basement guy in my pj&#8217;s.\u00a0 Tiptoe around and enjoy the last few minutes of quiet before my three year old gets up and the day officially starts.<\/p>\n<p>In business news, the new website is plugging along- just taking longer than I was hoping.\u00a0 For everyone that is asking about new items- soon very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So does it happen when you have kids, or when you hit your thirties?\u00a0 Somewhere a long the line it becomes just another day.\u00a0 And for those of us in our late thirties we don&#8217;t really want to call attention to each passing year.\u00a0 Or do we?\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to still get excited about your birthday?\u00a0 To actually remember that it is our birthday?\u00a0 To have a cup a coffee waiting when you wake up and kids that are good and able to get out the door to school without whining, complaining, or being difficult?\u00a0 Oh yeah, that must be it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just like very other day. Achh, this is sounding like a pity party (although hey at least that would be a party!)\u00a0 It&#8217;s time to make some coffee, get dressed so I don&#8217;t face the basement guy in my pj&#8217;s.\u00a0 Tiptoe around and enjoy the last few minutes of quiet before my three year old gets up and the day officially starts. In business news, the new website is plugging along- just taking longer than I was hoping.\u00a0 For everyone that is asking about new items- soon very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20879,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/20879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}