{"id":60,"date":"2004-12-16T23:07:52","date_gmt":"2004-12-17T03:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2004\/12\/the-longest-day\/"},"modified":"2004-12-16T23:07:52","modified_gmt":"2004-12-17T03:07:52","slug":"the-longest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2004\/12\/the-longest-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Longest Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got up at 5:30 this morning.  By 7:30, I had showered, dressed, had coffee, wrapped gifts, baked cookies, and put in a load of laundry.  I left the house at 8:30 (realizing as I walked out the door that I hadn&#8217;t had breakfast yet, and tossing some cereal in a ziploc bag) to start running errands.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time today that I&#8217;ve sat down when I haven&#8217;t been nursing Carolyn.  (That is, except for Sit &#038; Knit, where I only managed to spend about 45 minutes.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m as done with Christmas preparations as I&#8217;m going to be.  The tree isn&#8217;t decorated, the house is still pretty messy, and there are a few gifts left to wrap when we get back from NYC.  Oh, and there are no stockings hung &#8211; I couldn&#8217;t even find a &#8220;Baby&#8217;s First Christmas&#8221; stocking for Carolyn.  (I&#8217;m a bad mommy; I should have bought one a few months ago&#8230;)  Tomorrow morning I have baby laundry to do, and packing*, and if there&#8217;s time I should probably finish wrapping those gifts and run the dishwasher.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;d better go to bed, because it sounds like I&#8217;m going to have to get up at 5:30 again!<\/p>\n<p>*I&#8217;ve never had to pack for a baby for a trip.  I&#8217;m terrified I&#8217;m going to forget something really important, like diapers.  Or something important that can&#8217;t easily be purchased there, like her Christmas outfit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got up at 5:30 this morning. By 7:30, I had showered, dressed, had coffee, wrapped gifts, baked cookies, and put in a load of laundry. I left the house at 8:30 (realizing as I walked out the door that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","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=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}