{"id":521,"date":"2009-06-17T21:57:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T04:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=521"},"modified":"2009-06-17T22:28:42","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T05:28:42","slug":"its-not-easy-being-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/its-not-easy-being-three\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not easy being Three, by Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-520\" title=\"2008-10-24 Park 07\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/2008-10-24-Park-071.jpg\" alt=\"2008-10-24 Park 07\" width=\"902\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/2008-10-24-Park-071.jpg 902w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/2008-10-24-Park-071-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I woke up and ran outside, excited to see the <span style=\"color: #808000;\">mushroom <\/span>in the grass that we found yesterday. Oh, no! someone had smashed it! I cried and ran to Mom&#8217;s room where she was reading. I could hardly tell my story, I was so upset. Mom poured me some Cheerios and told me another mushroom will grow in the grass someday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An hour later, I asked, &#8220;Should we plant the mushroom pieces so it will grow into a new mushroom?&#8221; &#8220;Plants need sun and water. We can pour the water!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Then Mom told me something about spores and that mushrooms are fungi, not plants.(Just when I think I&#8217;ve got things figured out, my world turns upside down.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Later, we were reading scriptures. I was so bored. I asked, &#8220;Why do we have to read scriptures <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">every<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">day<\/span>?&#8221; Mom said, &#8220;Because the prophet said so.&#8221; Then she started singing, Follow the Prophet and so I decided to sing with everybody. When the song was over, they started reading scriptures AGAIN! So I said, &#8220;I want to sing more songs!&#8221; After a while, we sang again; any song I wanted. I chose Popcorn Popping, Jingle Bells, and Little Drummer Boy! I love that rum-pum- pum- pum song.<\/p>\n<p>I played outside, ate pancakes for lunch, and played outside some more. Then I dressed up like a Cub Scout. Daniel let me wear all of his stuff. I looked good!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-524\" title=\"Mark in Scout uniform 001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Mark-in-Scout-uniform-001.jpg\" alt=\"Mark in Scout uniform 001\" width=\"448\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Mark-in-Scout-uniform-001.jpg 448w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Mark-in-Scout-uniform-001-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had to go with Mom and the kids to piano lessons. I was so tired. I tried to fall asleep in the car, but it didn&#8217;t work. I was so sad about everything. My Bobby doll was missing. My shirt was dirty. Mom found my Bobby and put my cactus shirt on me.<\/p>\n<p>Later, after piano lessons were over, Mom bought me some orange tic-tacs and that made me happy.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight at the church a girl found me in the hallway and asked, &#8220;What are you doing?&#8221;I said, &#8220;I&#8217;m waiting to go to the beach&#8230; Have you ever been to the beach?.. Have you ever slept on a crab?&#8221; She just giggled and walked back to mutual to tell her friends what I said to her.<\/p>\n<p>Life can be so confusing. And what in the world is August? Mom keeps saying I have to wait until August to go to the beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up and ran outside, excited to see the mushroom in the grass that we found yesterday. Oh, no! someone had smashed it! I cried and ran to Mom&#8217;s room where she was reading. I could hardly tell my story, I was so upset. Mom poured me some Cheerios and told me another mushroom &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/its-not-easy-being-three\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s not easy being Three, by Mark<\/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":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","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=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}