{"id":221,"date":"2007-05-08T14:36:51","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T19:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/kids\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:10:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:10:30","slug":"kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Blake came home from school and said, &#8220;I have an early Mother&#8217;s Day present for you.&#8221;\u00a0 He gives me a poem that says<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost Mother&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>I want to show my mom I love her in a special way.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll paint a box.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll put in a teddy bear.<\/p>\n<p>It shows how we love to bear hug.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll put in a piece of gum.<\/p>\n<p>It shows how we always stick together.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll put in some nuts.<\/p>\n<p>They show how silly we like to be.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll put in a bandage.<\/p>\n<p>It shows how she always comes to my rescue.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll put in a chocolate kiss.<\/p>\n<p>It shows how good it feels to be loved.<\/p>\n<p>And Mom, don&#8217;t forget&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll love you forever!<\/p>\n<p>SO then he hands me a little painted box with a teddy bear in it, a piece of gum, a peanut, a band-aid, and a chocolate kiss.\u00a0 I told him it was very sweet and he said, &#8220;can I have the piece the gum?&#8221;\u00a0 so I give it to him.\u00a0 Then he says, &#8220;can I have the peanut too?\u00a0 I really like peanuts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I gave him the peanut, and then said, &#8220;do you want the Hershey&#8217;s Kiss too?&#8221;\u00a0 He nodded and said, &#8220;but you can have the band-aid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Blake came home from school and said, &#8220;I have an early Mother&#8217;s Day present for you.&#8221;\u00a0 He gives me a poem that says It&#8217;s almost Mother&#8217;s Day. I want to show my mom I love her in a special way. I&#8217;ll paint a box. I&#8217;ll put in a teddy bear. It shows how we love to bear hug. I&#8217;ll put in a piece of gum. It shows how we always stick together. I&#8217;ll put in some nuts. They show how silly we like to be. I&#8217;ll put in a bandage. It shows how she always comes to my rescue. I&#8217;ll put in a chocolate kiss. It shows how good it feels to be loved. And Mom, don&#8217;t forget&#8230;&#8230; I&#8217;ll love you forever! SO then he hands me a little painted box with a teddy bear in it, a piece of gum, a peanut, a band-aid, and a chocolate kiss.\u00a0 I told him it was very sweet and he said, &#8220;can I have the piece the gum?&#8221;\u00a0 so I give it to him.\u00a0 Then he says, &#8220;can I have the peanut too?\u00a0 I really like peanuts.&#8221; I gave him the peanut, and then said, &#8220;do you want the Hershey&#8217;s Kiss too?&#8221;\u00a0 He nodded and said, &#8220;but you can have the band-aid.&#8221; Thanks.<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elisalou"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","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=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20945,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/20945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}