{"id":549,"date":"2008-08-01T07:53:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T07:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=549"},"modified":"2008-08-01T07:53:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T07:53:05","slug":"549","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/08\/01\/549\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect it will be a pretty quiet Xanga day today.&nbsp;&nbsp; Honestly, that&#8217;s okay because I really don&#8217;t have a lot to blog about today.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly, this week has been about getting to and recovering from the ultrasound on Wednesday.&nbsp; The aftermath has been quite interesting, really.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emotionally, I was absolutely drained on Wednesday afternoon.&nbsp; I had known that I was stressing about Wednesday&#8217;s ultrasound and what they would find, but I didn&#8217;t realize how much until it was over.&nbsp; Then I was just tired.&nbsp; So I called people, sat on the couch and let myself recover.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s amazing how much my perspective about the babies has shifted now.&nbsp; It&#8217;s so much easier to think of them as real, as real <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">people<\/span>, than it was before.&nbsp; I&#8217;d seen them on ultrasounds 3 different times before Wednesday, but something about that one, the good news, and knowing their genders has made the idea of parenting, the idea of children come alive.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m glad we found out what they are.&nbsp; I need time to prepare, and I was struggling to know how to start. Now I feel like I can really make a plan and get it done before there is a great danger of them arriving.&nbsp; Of course, they may still jump the gun, but even that idea is less stressful to me right now.&nbsp; I guess, as Terri noted, I needed to get my &#8216;chill&#8217; back. <\/li>\n<li>Picking a baby name is freakin&#8217; hard.&nbsp; Picking two seems impossible.&nbsp; I have an unusual name.&nbsp; I know how hard that can be for a kid.&nbsp; My name also rhymes with lots of things.&nbsp; Another set of lessons learned.&nbsp; As a book I was flipping through reminded parents: Names are for life; choose well and wisely.&nbsp; But when you&#8217;re looking through a book of 25, 60, or 75,000 names&#8230;it&#8217;s a hugely daunting task.&nbsp; (BTW &#8211; we don&#8217;t plan on sharing the names we choose until they&#8217;re born&#8230;just in case you were wondering.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So those are some thoughts from the last couple of days.&nbsp; Just thought I&#8217;d share.<\/p>\n<p>As for today, we are heading to the farm for a couple of days when Eric gets home tonight.&nbsp; So I need to do some prep work for that.&nbsp; Should be a relaxing weekend, for the most part, although my in-laws do not have A\/C and it&#8217;s going to be HOT this weekend.&nbsp; Hopefully, I won&#8217;t melt away out there!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, happy Friday!&nbsp; Enjoy your weekends!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect it will be a pretty quiet Xanga day today.&nbsp;&nbsp; Honestly, that&#8217;s okay because I really don&#8217;t have a lot to blog about today. Mostly, this week has been about getting to and recovering from the ultrasound on Wednesday.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/08\/01\/549\/\">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-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","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=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}