{"id":990,"date":"2007-05-14T18:03:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T22:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2007\/05\/graduation-and-mothers-day\/"},"modified":"2007-05-14T18:03:59","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T22:03:59","slug":"graduation-and-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2007\/05\/graduation-and-mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduation and Mother&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we attended my baby brother&#8217;s college graduation &#8211; which <em>really<\/em> makes me feel old!  It was a lovely ceremony, with a brass quintet <em>and<\/em> bagpipes&#8230;though perhaps a smidge long!  <\/p>\n<p>Carrie tried to make it through the whole ceremony, but wound up falling asleep about 5 minutes before Michael walked across the stage.  It&#8217;s been a long time since she fell asleep anywhere but her bed, and I&#8217;m ashamed to admit how much I enjoyed the warm weight of her head on my shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>We went to another slightly less than kid-friendly restaurant for dinner, and I think Carrie had finally used up all of her exceptionally good behavior for the weekend.  But after a major meltdown that required a trip to the ladies room for a change of scenery, she managed to come back to the table just in time for dessert &#8211; and then ate an entire slice of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spumoni\">spumoni<\/a>.  I sort of expected her head to start spinning around like the kid in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Exorcist_(film)\">The Exorcist<\/a> between the sugar and the lack of a proper nap.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for me, she instead slept for the entire 3 1\/2 hour ride home, and continued sleeping in her bed all the way until a reasonable hour this morning.  Happy Mother&#8217;s Day to me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we attended my baby brother&#8217;s college graduation &#8211; which really makes me feel old! It was a lovely ceremony, with a brass quintet and bagpipes&#8230;though perhaps a smidge long! Carrie tried to make it through the whole ceremony, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","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=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}