{"id":4260,"date":"2014-04-03T23:46:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T03:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2014-04-03T23:46:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T03:46:07","slug":"tap-tap-tap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2014\/04\/tap-tap-tap\/","title":{"rendered":"Tap, tap, tap&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is this thing on?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while, hasn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Let me explain. \u00a0No, wait, there is too much. \u00a0Let me sum up.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of everyday, crazy fun and messy life has happened in the past, oh, almost two years now. \u00a0I&#8217;m not really sure why I stopped blogging except that things got busy for a while, and then I fell out of the habit. \u00a0And then things got *really* busy again. \u00a0Because, well, this little man joined our family in August, 2013:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4262\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_4949.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4262\" title=\"Matthew in the carseat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_4949.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_4949.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_4949-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Denis, 4 days old<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And nothing makes time shorter than a new baby &#8211; they grow and change so fast and the moments slip by even while you&#8217;re trying to hold them tight. \u00a0New babies completely rock your world.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4263\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7934.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4263\" title=\"IMG_7934\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7934.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7934.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7934-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew @ 6 months - future rock star?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But then, while trying to remember when one of the girls started walking, I thought about my letters to them every month, and the posts I had written capturing all of those little moments that you promise yourself you&#8217;ll remember but you&#8217;re so busy and sleep deprived and distracted that you don&#8217;t. \u00a0And I realized that I want those for Matthew, too. \u00a0I&#8217;ve written some things down in other places, so I may post-date a few things so I can find them someday, but whether I get to those or not I&#8217;m going to work to keep things updated going forward. \u00a0Because you don&#8217;t get those moments back, but reading about them years later is almost as good.<\/p>\n<p>So. Here&#8217;s to spring, a renewal of warmth, light, growing things&#8230;and blogging.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4264\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7994.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4264\" title=\"IMG_7994\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7994.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7994.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_7994-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My three little leprechauns.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this thing on? It&#8217;s been a while, hasn&#8217;t it? Let me explain. \u00a0No, wait, there is too much. \u00a0Let me sum up. Lots of everyday, crazy fun and messy life has happened in the past, oh, almost two years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matthew","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4266,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions\/4266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}