{"id":8263,"date":"2012-07-17T13:43:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T13:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=8263"},"modified":"2012-07-17T13:43:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T13:43:48","slug":"good-days-bad-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/17\/good-days-bad-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Days Bad Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/elisalou\/7582758706\/\" title=\"photo by elisalou_designs, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8144\/7582758706_0b5af2f687_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"photo\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eva isn&#8217;t the easiest child to parent.  She has two modes- on (which is full throttle) and off (which is sleeping).  She is a very active kid- always running, jumping, throwing stuff, and she&#8217;s really loud.  Her fits are big and involve lots of kicking and yelling.  Spirited would be a good word to describe her.  The bonus of this of course is that she sleeps like a rock.<\/p>\n<p>Her attitude is huge.  I honestly never thought I would see such eye rolling and drama from a little three year old but it&#8217;s there.  Every day.<\/p>\n<p>Usually I can handle it.  But we have had a hard couple of days- everyone is still tired from the last beach trip.  Especially Cole.  He stayed up late almost every night and has been falling apart at the drop of a hat.  See he is a bit of a hot head as well.<\/p>\n<p>So having two kids that were flipping yesterday just got on my last nerve.  I tried to take them to the pool but Eva pitched a huge kicking and screaming fit and I threw in the towel.  It was just one of those days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/elisalou\/7584623218\/\" title=\"Pitching a fit at the pool- some days are hard by elisalou_designs, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8027\/7584623218_e2941f11d1_z.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" alt=\"Pitching a fit at the pool- some days are hard\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today we are going to stay closer to home.  I need to go through closets and do laundry and get things put away.  Crossing my fingers that it&#8217;s going to be a better day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eva isn&#8217;t the easiest child to parent. She has two modes- on (which is full throttle) and off (which is sleeping). She is a very active kid- always running, jumping, throwing stuff, and she&#8217;s really loud. Her fits are big and involve lots of kicking and yelling. Spirited would be a good word to describe her. The bonus of this of course is that she sleeps like a rock. Her attitude is huge. I honestly never thought I would see such eye rolling and drama from a little three year old but it&#8217;s there. Every day. Usually I can handle it. But we have had a hard couple of days- everyone is still tired from the last beach trip. Especially Cole. He stayed up late almost every night and has been falling apart at the drop of a hat. See he is a bit of a hot head as well. So having two kids that were flipping yesterday just got on my last nerve. I tried to take them to the pool but Eva pitched a huge kicking and screaming fit and I threw in the towel. It was just one of those days. Today we are going to stay closer to home. I need to go through closets and do laundry and get things put away. Crossing my fingers that it&#8217;s going to be a better day.<\/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-8263","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\/8263","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=8263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8265,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8263\/revisions\/8265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}