{"id":3303,"date":"2014-10-30T13:40:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T18:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2014-10-30T15:07:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T20:07:15","slug":"keeping-me-humble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2014\/10\/keeping-me-humble.html","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Me Humble"},"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><p>This morning I had an important Skype interview \u2013 actually more of a pre-interview interview for something I\u2019ve been working on. (I can\u2019t tell you\u2026yet\u2026) I had bribed all of the children to stay upstairs for the 10 minutes it would take, and they were amazingly quiet. Their jobs were simple \u2013 not be heard and make sure that the youngest, who\u2019s potty training, didn\u2019t pee on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We were wrapping things up when she climbed on my lap with a kleenex in hand and waved at the people on the screen. She then turned and handed me the tissue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/2014\/10\/IMG_05301-e1414694364903.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3304\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/2014\/10\/IMG_05301-e1414694364903-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0530[1]\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so sorry,\u201d I apologized, \u201cshe\u2019s obsessed with tissues and blowing noses right now.\u201d I turned to her and fake blew my nose.<\/p>\n<p>She stared at me as if I\u2019d lost my mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas I <em>not <\/em>supposed to blow my nose?\u201d I asked her. \u201cIsn\u2019t that what the tissue is for?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d She grinned. \u201cI wiped myself. I\u2019m big!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laughter rolled through the computer speakers as the person on the other side asked, \u201cUmmm\u2026.Did you just blow your nose on a pee tissue?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, she did.\u201d My daughter answered him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh my goodness,\u201d he guffawed, \u201cthat\u2019s the best thing I\u2019ve seen today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m glad I could help.\u201d I replied as I bit back laughter.<\/p>\n<p>And with that, I went off to wash my face.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I had an important Skype interview \u2013 actually more of a pre-interview interview for something I\u2019ve been working on. (I can\u2019t tell you\u2026yet\u2026) I had bribed all of the children to stay upstairs for the 10 minutes it would take, and they were amazingly quiet. 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