{"id":4699,"date":"2009-05-18T21:20:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T04:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=4699"},"modified":"2009-05-18T21:20:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T04:20:40","slug":"the-week-kate-potty-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/the-week-kate-potty-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"The week Kate potty trains."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I leave tomorrow morning for 3 1\/2 days in Boston.\u00c2\u00a0 I figure since Paul can do almost anything I can (and better) that by the time I get back, he&#8217;ll have Kate playing piano etudes, Will writing verse in Spanish, a half dozen herb plants thriving on the porch, the rain water harvesting barrels up and catching, and two week&#8217;s worth of dinners frozen for future meals.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4697\" title=\"nola-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/nola-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/nola-1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/nola-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The meeting days are long and there isn&#8217;t much free time, which means I will have plenty to feel guilty about when I get back.\u00c2\u00a0 Because just by virtue of being out of the house, shouldn&#8217;t I be writing around the clock?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Chemical support is looking really tempting; I&#8217;ve gained a new appreciation for why cocaine was initially a suburban drug popular among Moms.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8217;cause If I could just cut out sleep, I would be able to keep my self-imposed, mostly unrealistic deadline.\u00c2\u00a0 (Hi, NIH?\u00c2\u00a0 Just kidding!\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m TOTALLY going to be done then.)<\/p>\n<p>Please be sure to send Paul some support this week.\u00c2\u00a0 Because now?\u00c2\u00a0 Kate has decided she is potty trained and does FUN things like take off her pull-up and pee all over the floor and half her toys.\u00c2\u00a0 OOPS.\u00c2\u00a0 Paul has a much harder time with the whole accident scenario.\u00c2\u00a0 And?\u00c2\u00a0 I want him to feel rested this week.\u00c2\u00a0 Because when I get back Friday night, I&#8217;ll have just enough time to sleep all day Saturday in preparation of going out\u00c2\u00a0 Saturday night with the girls (Indigo Girls at Tipitina&#8217;s, whoo-hoo!)<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4698\" title=\"nola\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/nola.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/nola.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/nola-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>P.S. I&#8217;m missing the kids already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I leave tomorrow morning for 3 1\/2 days in Boston.\u00c2\u00a0 I figure since Paul can do almost anything I can (and better) that by the time I get back, he&#8217;ll have Kate playing piano etudes, Will writing verse in Spanish, a half dozen herb plants thriving on the porch, the rain water harvesting barrels up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,39,89,67],"tags":[106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4700,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions\/4700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}