{"id":4528,"date":"2021-01-22T20:53:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T04:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2021-01-22T20:55:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T04:55:19","slug":"meghan-is-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=4528","title":{"rendered":"Meghan is 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today did not turned out to be what I thought it would be. Meghan woke up early and excited that it&#8217;s her birthday. Well, that&#8217;s understandable. I wasn&#8217;t upset with her for being excited that it&#8217;s her special day. The weather was beautiful &#8211; cold but sunny with blue skies. I was going to make her day special by maybe going to the playground or taking a walk outside. Nope. It didn&#8217;t happen. She was very demanding today. She wanted to have snacks after snacks during her virtual class ( she did not finish the snacks she asked for!) and also wanted to do a science experiment ( which we did). The worst thing was.. she refused to use the potty. The usual reward didn&#8217;t work! That was a spoiler for the day. She literally just ruined her own day. I am tired and frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>Life is so much easier and carefree without a child. More time, less pressure, less stress. Why do people want kids again?<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I penned the following down yesterday- it was a nicer blog post. To a better tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n&#8220;Is it my birthday yet?&#8221; &#8220;Is the bakerman baking my cake?&#8221; You asked. You have been waiting for this day for a long time. You are so excited to celebrate your birthday!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you want to do on your birthday?&#8221; I asked, feeling so ready to plan a full day of activities for her. &#8220;Just play with my birthday toys!&#8221; She exclaimed. Ahh&#8230; our Meghan is simple like that. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a ride. The last year haven&#8217;t been fair to you. Due to the pandemic, we pulled you out of school and stayed home most of the time. I spent my days struggling to deal with everything and feeling guilty everyday. If only, I allowed you to play a little longer with your friends at school &#8211; who knows it was the last time you were seeing them. <\/p>\n<p>I must have done something right? In the past year, you had grown to be such a kind, brilliant and sweet girl! When we feel frustrated about your potty accidents, you assured us that &#8220;Accidents happens and it&#8217;s ok. We learn from it.&#8221; You love your baby Abbey\/Abigail so much! It just makes me think that you will be such a wonderful big sister &#8211; too bad I don&#8217;t have the strength and energy to have another child.<\/p>\n<p>You are not the prettiest, cutest or smartest but you have an awesome personality. I wished more people will know how awesome you are! Your awesomeness also comes with Tesla Supercharge &#8211; lasting the whole day without naps!<\/p>\n<p>I hope this year will be your best year yet!<br \/>\nHappy birthday our dear girl! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today did not turned out to be what I thought it would be. Meghan woke up early and excited that it&#8217;s her birthday. Well, that&#8217;s understandable. I wasn&#8217;t upset with her for being excited that it&#8217;s her special day. The weather was beautiful &#8211; cold but sunny with blue skies. I was going to make &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=4528\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meghan is 3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4530,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions\/4530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}