{"id":65,"date":"2006-09-19T15:59:26","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T20:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/19\/calling-in-the-troops\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:09:17","slug":"calling-in-the-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/19\/calling-in-the-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling in the troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I called my mom today and told her that I need her to come up tomorrow because Andy is going to NYC again for a couple days.\u00a0 She responds by telling me that she is coming up this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>E- &#8220;that&#8217;s not good enough! (insert whine)\u00a0 I need help this week while Andy is gone, don&#8217;t you know last week I almost had to give the kids up for adoption??&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My mom- &#8220;Oh my poor babies! I&#8217;ll call you back after I talk to your dad&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He he he, I knew that would work.\u00a0 No way my dad won&#8217;t say, &#8220;Go help her, my Grandkids can&#8217;t be given up for adoption!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See I love my mom to death.\u00a0 She just retired, this is her first year not teaching Special Ed, high school Special Ed at that.\u00a0 She has the patience of a Saint!\u00a0 She lets my nieces roller blade in her kitchen!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, not only will I have back-up with the kiddos, I am putting her to work cutting, ironing, interfacing.<\/p>\n<p>Whew, help is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I called my mom today and told her that I need her to come up tomorrow because Andy is going to NYC again for a couple days.\u00a0 She responds by telling me that she is coming up this weekend.\u00a0 E- &#8220;that&#8217;s not good enough! (insert whine)\u00a0 I need help this week while Andy is gone, don&#8217;t you know last week I almost had to give the kids up for adoption??&#8221; My mom- &#8220;Oh my poor babies! I&#8217;ll call you back after I talk to your dad&#8221; \u00a0He he he, I knew that would work.\u00a0 No way my dad won&#8217;t say, &#8220;Go help her, my Grandkids can&#8217;t be given up for adoption!&#8221; See I love my mom to death.\u00a0 She just retired, this is her first year not teaching Special Ed, high school Special Ed at that.\u00a0 She has the patience of a Saint!\u00a0 She lets my nieces roller blade in her kitchen!\u00a0 So anyway, not only will I have back-up with the kiddos, I am putting her to work cutting, ironing, interfacing. Whew, help is good.<\/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":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elisalou","category-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20803,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/20803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}