{"id":498,"date":"2004-04-28T15:02:59","date_gmt":"2004-04-28T19:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/wordpress\/?p=498"},"modified":"2004-04-28T15:02:59","modified_gmt":"2004-04-28T19:02:59","slug":"packing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Packing Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Munchie is sleeping and I just finished putting most of my clothes back into my suitcase.  I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m heading home tomorrow!  I have that strange feeling that I&#8217;ve been gone forever but I&#8217;ve only been here a moment.  Sort of bittersweet, you know?   Munchie loves it here.  I mean, come on, she gets extra spoiling from the grandparents, beautiful weather, and the run of a huge house with new toys.  But then there is poor Kevin who, as far as I know, is living on Top Ramen and old pizza while sobbing over Ofoto pics of his little girl.<\/p>\n<p>But you know what?  It sure is nice to have four extra hands to help out with Leina.  I&#8217;ve actaully been eating dinner at 5:30!  I don&#8217;t know how I&#8217;m going to go back to a 8pm mealtime.  I get to take long showers, style my hair and choose matching outfits.  I&#8217;ve watched movie with the sound turned up and caught up on my free reading.  It&#8217;s been a real vacation I tell you!<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s with a bit of regret that I stuff my bags and get ready to fly north.  I know Leina is going to go into shock when we get home to our quiet little house.   Thank goodness for the dog!  I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll provide some much needed entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>And why is it that when you go to pack, it seems your stuff has expanded to twice what you brought????  I mean, how many bags to one mom and one munchkin need?  Insanity I tell you, complete insanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Munchie is sleeping and I just finished putting most of my clothes back into my suitcase. I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m heading home tomorrow! I have that strange feeling that I&#8217;ve been gone forever but I&#8217;ve only been here a moment. Sort of bittersweet, you know? Munchie loves it here. I mean, come on, she gets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-done"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Kqhb-82","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}