{"id":1063,"date":"2010-12-29T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T08:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mamamonk.com\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2010-12-29T00:01:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T08:01:08","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99ve-learned-about-motherhood-in-the-past-7-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/12\/what-i%e2%80%99ve-learned-about-motherhood-in-the-past-7-days\/","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019ve Learned About Motherhood in the Past 7 Days."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><ul>\n<li>Gingerbread + Christmas cookies + pumpkin pie + staying up till 10 for three days straight playing with cousins = a very grumpy two-year-old for Christmas. (Kids are supposed to be grumpy on Christmas, right?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>As much as I may have talked to August about Christmas being about Jesus and Santa only giving gifts because he loves Jesus, I still was a failure when I reminded my son: \u201cChristmas is about how Jesus was born,\u201d and he said: \u201cNo! That\u2019s not true. Christmas is about Santa!\u201d Oh brother.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In these two and a half years of air travel with my child, I never knew what a beautiful thing it is to drag the car seat onto the airplane. We plugged that kid in for our late night flight Monday night and he was asleep before the plane took off. Miracle. How did I never do this before?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>This isn\u2019t about motherhood, but after two flights of horrific sinus pain on Monday, I got these amazing earplugs from the airport store. And it was life-changing. Just wanted you to know.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If your kid sleeps with a rocket like mine, it\u2019s really good to find one that has a clock and an astronaut-on-the-moon nightlight (that shines on the wall).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Even if you\u2019re six months pregnant, it\u2019s totally worth it to run through the airport terminal next to your kid, with a metal plane in your hand, making the \u201cshooooooooosh\u201d sound, for thirty minutes. (The fact that I\u2019m sore from it today shows what an out of shape pregnant lady I am.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>As much as I know that I\u2019m loved, the sweetest thing about leaving after visiting my parents and grandparents in Amarillo is their goodbye tears. I know so few daughters and granddaughters have what I have.\u00a0 I hope my children always feel as loved by Chris and I as I feel loved by my parents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gingerbread + Christmas cookies + pumpkin pie + staying up till 10 for three days straight playing with cousins = a very grumpy two-year-old for Christmas. (Kids are supposed to be grumpy on Christmas, right?) 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