{"id":213,"date":"2010-05-05T09:32:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T09:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=213"},"modified":"2010-05-05T09:32:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T09:32:12","slug":"digging-out-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2010\/05\/05\/digging-out-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like I&#8217;m way behind again. &nbsp;Like everywhere I look in my house, there are mountains of various sizes and shapes, and I&#8217;m trying to attack them with a baby spoon. &nbsp;I&#8217;m overwhelmed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have piles of laundry in at least 3 rooms of the house, all in various stages of done-ness. &nbsp;I haven&#8217;t vacuumed or dusted in ages. &nbsp;I desperately need to clean bathrooms and wash the hard floors again. &nbsp;The ironing is just waiting where I dropped it, last week. &nbsp;Thankfully, I did get the kitchen sort of cleaned up last night (even swept the floor), but that will be undone by lunchtime today. &nbsp;It just never ends, does it?<\/p>\n<p>(I frankly don&#8217;t know how all you mommies with full-time jobs do it all. &nbsp;You all are awesome!)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I realize that Eric being gone for a week, trying to stay ahead of twins, and holding up under 16 weeks of pregnancy are all reasons for my getting behind in housework. &nbsp;But it&#8217;s still frustrating to look around the house and see only &#8220;what-still-hasn&#8217;t-been-done&#8221; everywhere I look. &nbsp;*sigh*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Okay, enough whining. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I certainly have other, happier, things to share. &nbsp;So on with those.<\/p>\n<p>The babies gave each other real hugs yesterday. &nbsp;It was too cute! &nbsp;They are at such a fun stage, with their waddle-y walks and full-out belly laughs. &nbsp;Of course, there are full-out screaming fits, too, but the laughs are more fun to think about. &nbsp;Erin will kiss me, and it&#8217;s pretty much a real kiss, not just smearing her open mouth on me. &nbsp;And Alex is my snuggle boy. &nbsp;There are more jibberish-sounds that sound like real words all the time. &nbsp;And I got some great video of them which, if I can get it done today, I will try to post for you to watch. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And best of all, we seem to be returning to a &#8220;regular&#8221; sleep pattern. &nbsp;Praise Jesus!<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I guess that&#8217;s where things stand. &nbsp;I did actually get to exercise a bit before babies got up. &nbsp;So now I can get my day moving a lot faster than we have been able to recently. &nbsp;So&#8230;off to shower! &nbsp;Happy Wednesday!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like I&#8217;m way behind again. &nbsp;Like everywhere I look in my house, there are mountains of various sizes and shapes, and I&#8217;m trying to attack them with a baby spoon. &nbsp;I&#8217;m overwhelmed.&nbsp; I have piles of laundry in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2010\/05\/05\/digging-out-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}