{"id":32381,"date":"2026-05-05T21:52:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T03:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=32381"},"modified":"2026-05-06T10:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:10:09","slug":"cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Cookies!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1000011311-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"713\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1000011311-1024x713.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32382\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1000011311-1024x713.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1000011311-300x209.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1000011311-768x535.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1000011311-1536x1069.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1000011311-2048x1426.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve tried many times to purge the children&#8217;s art from our storage room. It&#8217;s been 20 years and I still can&#8217;t throw away this rendering of a cookie factory by a very young Daniel. (And many other masterpieces by our kids.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other things that I find difficult to remove, but should:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">high school awards and yearbooks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">unused recipe books<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">extra mugs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">books I will not read again <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">plates we never use<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">old sleeping bags<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">unused picture frames<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">power cords collected over 30 years<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">cast off cell phones<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">old pillowcases<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">baby blankets<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">extra throw pillows<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We don&#8217;t keep our clutter in the open. It lurks in our storage areas and closets. Decluttering is perpetual for me, but it really ramped up when the children left home. People don&#8217;t notice a difference when I clear a closet shelf or storage bin, but I notice that my mind is a little more free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve tried many times to purge the children&#8217;s art from our storage room. It&#8217;s been 20 years and I still can&#8217;t throw away this rendering of a cookie factory by a very young Daniel. (And many other masterpieces by our kids.) Other things that I find difficult to remove, but should: high school awards and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/cookies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cookies!!!!!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-fun-finds","category-home","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32381"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32413,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32381\/revisions\/32413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}