{"id":314,"date":"2009-10-05T21:01:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T21:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=314"},"modified":"2009-10-05T21:01:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T21:01:54","slug":"edge-of-exhaustion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2009\/10\/05\/edge-of-exhaustion\/","title":{"rendered":"Edge of Exhaustion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s where I am.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the quick version:<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday: Mother of Twins Club sale in the evening.&nbsp; I bought 3 bags of clothes for both kids across 3 sizes for under $150.&nbsp; And I still liked everything when I sorted it out at home.&nbsp; Nice!<\/p>\n<p>Saturday: A long day at CU for Homecoming, seeing old friends, having a special reunion with my closest college friends at my parents&#8217; house.&nbsp; Burgers\/dogs, lots of little kids, no rain, good talks.&nbsp; It came off SO beautifully (thanks to Jesus and my wonderful mom &#8211; Thanks MOM!), but I was exhausted by the end of the day.&nbsp; As were the babies.&nbsp; And Eric.&nbsp; He&#8217;s such a great husband!<\/p>\n<p>Sunday: Church, babies&#8217; nap, lunch, play with babies, babies&#8217; nap, enlarged the &#8216;baby pasture&#8217; to give them more room to play, back to church\/work in Talker nursery room (I think I pulled a muscle in my back), home to crash<\/p>\n<p>Monday: drove back to C-ville to watch my youngest 2 nieces while my SIL prepped the new house for tomorrow&#8217;s big moving day activities.&nbsp; Me + 4 yo + 2 10 mo + 6 mo = long, tiring day.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The rest of this week:<br \/>Tomorrow: morning Bible study<br \/>Wednesday: no plans<br \/>Thursday: doctor&#8217;s appointment<br \/>Friday: Moms group meeting (at church)<br \/>Saturday: Parents&#8217; meeting for Baby Dedication Sunday (on the 18th) from 9-11 in the morning. <\/p>\n<p>One of these days maybe I&#8217;ll get a break and maybe Alex will sleep all the way through the night and I won&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;m barely staying on top of the basics.&nbsp; I hope.<\/p>\n<p>But on a better note, Alex climbed the stairs tonight by himself (with Eric behind him to keep him from falling).&nbsp; He&#8217;s definitely going to be my climber.&nbsp; And Erin has started clapping along when you cheer.&nbsp; Both are too cute!<\/p>\n<p>And I have the best-est babies in the world&#8230;in all the craziness of the last few days, we&#8217;ve had maybe 2 meltdowns.&nbsp; Thank you Jesus!<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m going to bed.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s where I am.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s the quick version: Last Friday: Mother of Twins Club sale in the evening.&nbsp; I bought 3 bags of clothes for both kids across 3 sizes for under $150.&nbsp; And I still liked everything when I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2009\/10\/05\/edge-of-exhaustion\/\">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-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}