{"id":4259,"date":"2011-08-05T20:26:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T03:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=4259"},"modified":"2011-08-05T20:39:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T03:39:55","slug":"goodbye-sweet-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/goodbye-sweet-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye sweet babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we said goodbye to many of Paige&#8217;s childhood toys and dress up clothes. Tears were shed. She has kept them around for all the neighbor girls to play with when they come over, but this summer it became clear that we are out of space. Most toys were carefully wrapped and donated to special people and to our church thrift store. Other things were packed away in deep storage for me to pull out and play with when Paige moves out and I&#8217;m the only girl in the house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2002-03-08-P3080009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4260 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2002-03-08-P3080009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2002-03-08-P3080009.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2002-03-08-P3080009-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This photo was taken in 2002.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Goodbye pink Kelly castle with the little dragon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Goodbye dollies. You are loved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Goodbye ponies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Goodbye twirly pink dress up clothes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;m crying my eyes out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2003-01-08-Paige-and-Dolls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4261\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2003-01-08-Paige-and-Dolls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2003-01-08-Paige-and-Dolls.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2003-01-08-Paige-and-Dolls-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Goodbye tea parties with princesses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2003-01-08-Kids-006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4262\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2003-01-08-Kids-006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2003-01-08-Kids-006.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2003-01-08-Kids-006-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Goodbye little things and glittery treasures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Goodbye baby girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we said goodbye to many of Paige&#8217;s childhood toys and dress up clothes. Tears were shed. She has kept them around for all the neighbor girls to play with when they come over, but this summer it became clear that we are out of space. Most toys were carefully wrapped and donated to special &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/goodbye-sweet-babies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goodbye sweet babies<\/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":[13,17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-time","category-fun-finds","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259","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=4259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4266,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions\/4266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}