{"id":9223,"date":"2014-05-21T08:07:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T15:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=9223"},"modified":"2014-05-21T08:10:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T15:10:35","slug":"three-more-wednesdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/three-more-wednesdays\/","title":{"rendered":"Three more Wednesdays"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Reader\"<\/a>
“Pink Note: The Novelette” James McNeill Whistler, 1884<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Only three\u00a0more Wednesdays until school gets out. Each Wednesday\u00a0I don’t have carpool or volunteer responsibilities at the school. It’s a day for “myself” but\u00a0I usually spend it cleaning the house, and\u00a0rarely move beyond cleaning\u00a0to creative projects.<\/p>\n

I’m not good at\u00a0having a day to myself. I feel guilty if I indulge in a day of reading; I don’t enjoy shopping; I have less creativity when I have too much silence. Cleaning and other maintenance work is what gets me though each Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The other night I found the list of house projects I was going to accomplish during the school year. I was going to paint the whole house, decorate every room, and landscape the yard. Ha! I sheepishly checked off the handful of projects I had completed and resolved to check off more things in the coming weeks after school gets out.<\/p>\n

I work much better when the family is around. They would probably say that it’s because I enlist them to help me. And they would be right, but they might not realize how a house full of my little people enlivens me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only three\u00a0more Wednesdays until school gets out. Each Wednesday\u00a0I don’t have carpool or volunteer responsibilities at the school. It’s a day for “myself” but\u00a0I usually spend it cleaning the house, and\u00a0rarely move beyond cleaning\u00a0to creative projects. I’m not good at\u00a0having a day to myself. I feel guilty if I indulge in a day of reading; … Continue reading Three more Wednesdays<\/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":[20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223","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=9223"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9230,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223\/revisions\/9230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}