{"id":455,"date":"2014-08-19T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/19\/first-day-of-preschool"},"modified":"2014-08-19T23:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T23:09:00","slug":"first-day-of-preschool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2014\/08\/19\/first-day-of-preschool\/","title":{"rendered":"First Day of Preschool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This pretty much sums it up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/14787812057\" title=\"image by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5562\/14787812057_cc1435a85d_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, today was the first day of preschool.\u00a0 It was great to have a couple hours to myself.\u00a0 I look forward to having this most days of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Jack protested all morning about going to school.\u00a0 Then he slipped wordlessly into the class, lured by a sticker.\u00a0 I could hardly coax him back for a hug.\u00a0 He was said he had a good time when I picked him up.\u00a0 He said he is excited to go back.<\/p>\n<p>But he also complained of hunger, complained and threw his biggest public tantrum ever at Jimmy Johns.\u00a0 Because I bought him a cookie for his first day and as thanks for running errands on the way home.\u00a0 So of course you scream and retch and pound your feet on the ground, right?\u00a0 Because you picked the wrong flavor, or you didn&#8217;t want a piece, or you wanted to eat it at the table but spent the whole time crying.\u00a0 All perfectly legitimate reasons for freaking out at high decibels.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sam is still sick.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve called the doctor a few times and we agree he can wait longer (sick visits cost me about $120 out of pocket with my insurance).<\/p>\n<p>Every little scrape for the rest of the day unleashed Jack&#8217;s full fury and outrage with tears, and it always caused Sam to break down too. There&#8217;s been a lot of tears in the house today, and not enough laughs.\u00a0 But I think that will change eventually.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/14787822367\" title=\"image by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3881\/14787822367_337bff0dbf_z.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(There are a few more staged first day of preschool photos on my flickr that you are welcome to enjoy.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This pretty much sums it up. Yes, today was the first day of preschool.\u00a0 It was great to have a couple hours to myself.\u00a0 I look forward to having this most days of the week. Jack protested all morning about going to school.\u00a0 Then he slipped wordlessly into the class, lured by a sticker.\u00a0 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}